Senior Category Manager - Non Clinical

• Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards and Calvary policies, fostering a culture of safety and wellbeing.
• Portfolio leadership: Own the indirect and non-clinical category portfolio, providing strategic direction across spend, market analysis, sourcing, demand management, standardisation and supplier management.
• Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead complex, enterprise-wide and commercially significant sourcing activities, RFTs, panels, sole-source arrangements and contract negotiations.
• Governance & team prioritisation: Review and endorse category strategies, sourcing plans, evaluations and contract awards, while prioritising work and allocating resources across the sourcing team.
• Stakeholder & supplier management: Build executive and operational alignment on strategy and commercial risks, and resolve escalated supplier, operational and commercial issues.
• Performance & commercial insight: Monitor portfolio performance, savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risks, using market intelligence to inform sourcing and negotiation decisions.

Essential

• Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including substantial senior-level category management experience across indirect, corporate services or similarly broad and complex portfolios.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant commercial, operational or supply outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in spend analysis, supply market assessment, Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
• Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation, a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings, benefits, compliance and risk outcomes.
• Proven ability to engage, influence and align executive, operational, facilities, finance and other functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated formal people-management experience, including objective setting, performance management, work allocation, capability development and quality assurance.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring the work of category management and sourcing professionals.
• High standard of written communication including category strategies, sourcing plans, board-quality recommendation papers and contract briefs

Desirable

• Tertiary qualification in procurement, supply chain, commerce, law or a related discipline.
• MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification.
• Experience in healthcare, aged care, not-for-profit or complex multi-site service environments.