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Category Manager III, Hardware and Telecom – Owens & Minor Remote Virginia
Lead strategic sourcing, negotiations, supplier management, and category planning for hardware and telecommunications procurement. Support Owens & Minor’s global healthcare products, services, and technology operations.
Apraksts
- Oversee strategic sourcing, supplier management, and category planning for assigned indirect procurement categories
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to create sourcing strategies
- Lead negotiations and advise on market conditions, supplier capabilities, cost drivers, and risks
- Execute category strategies that support procurement and business priorities
- Identify sourcing opportunities and maintain initiative pipelines
- Create strategic sourcing plans, initiative pipelines, and category roadmaps
- Monitor market intelligence, supplier segmentation, demand patterns, and risk mitigation plans
- Direct end-to-end sourcing events, including stakeholder alignment, supplier selection, RFP/RFQ execution, analysis, negotiations, and award recommendations
- Work with Legal, Finance, Compliance, IT, and business stakeholders on contracts and procurement objectives
- Manage key supplier relationships, performance reviews, issue resolution, and continuous improvement
- Support savings, value creation, and cost avoidance goals
- Track sourcing outcomes, validate financial benefits, and contribute to leadership reporting
- Establish preferred supplier programs and governance for professional services
- Implement a finance-supported spend control tower to improve visibility into functional budgets
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence senior leaders toward enterprise objectives
- Drive change management to encourage adoption of procurement strategies, processes, and technologies
- Act as a procurement subject matter expert, advising on processes, market dynamics, supplier options, and commercial strategy
- Share procurement expertise and best practices with peers, analysts, and junior team members
- Use digital procurement technologies, data analytics, and process automation to improve decisions and stakeholder outcomes
- Apply procurement platforms and analytical tools to support category strategy, sourcing, supplier management, and performance reporting
Prasības
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 5–7 years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, category management, finance, or a related business field
- Experience managing complex indirect spend categories and supporting strategic sourcing programs
- Demonstrated ability to lead negotiations, sourcing events, supplier evaluations, and contract support activities
- Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and project management capabilities
- Experience with procurement systems, spend analytics tools, and supplier management platforms
- Experience managing hardware and telecommunications categories, including telecom services, network connectivity, infrastructure, hardware, mobile services, end-user devices, and related technology services
- Ability to apply digital procurement technologies, data analytics, and process automation
- Practical experience using procurement platforms and analytical tools for category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier management, and performance reporting
- Work is performed under inside working conditions
- No environmental hazards are indicated for this classification
Priekšrocības
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage begins on the first day of employment for full-time teammates
- Educational assistance is available to eligible teammates enrolled in an approved accredited college program
- Employer-paid life insurance and disability coverage
- Optional supplemental life, hospital indemnity, critical illness, and other insurance programs
- Adoption assistance
- Fertility benefits through the medical plan
- Parental leave
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401(k) plan
- Paid sick time, short-term leave, holidays, vacation, personal days, and other leave options
- Teammate Assistance Program (TAP)
- Calm Health
- Cancer Resources Services
- No-cost discount programs