The Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical is accountable for strategy, prioritisation and delivery across Calvary's overall indirect and non-clinical category portfolio.

 

Reporting to the Director Sourcing, the role leads a team, sets portfolio priorities, allocates work and provides formal people leadership. It owns the consolidated non-clinical sourcing pipeline, reviews and endorses category strategies and sourcing recommendations before escalation, and leads Calvary's most complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material non-clinical procurement activity.

 

The role engages executive, operational, facilities and finance stakeholders and is accountable for the non-clinical team's aggregate savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risk outcomes.

 

Your main duties will include:

 

• 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.

 

 

At Calvary, our staff matter. 

 

With over 130 years’ experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.

 

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