Category Manager III – Hardware, Telecom

🔥 13 hours ago

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $87k - $107k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Owens & Minor

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

10,000+ employees

Founded 1882

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2022-03

Logistics • Consulting • Healthcare

Owens & Minor is a global healthcare solutions company that provides essential products and services to support care from the hospital to the home. The company specializes in healthcare logistics, inventory management, supply chain solutions, and infection prevention. It offers logistics solutions to reduce costs and eliminate complexities for both acute and non-acute healthcare settings. Owens & Minor is also involved in consulting, helping improve healthcare supply chains and partnerships. The company is dedicated to empowering healthcare providers and serving patients, manufacturers, and communities with its range of products and services.

📋 Description

• Manage strategic sourcing, supplier management, and category planning activities across assigned Indirect Procurement categories • Partner with business stakeholders and develop sourcing strategies • Lead negotiations and provide procurement guidance on market conditions, supplier capabilities, cost drivers, and risk considerations • Support and execute category strategies aligned with procurement and business objectives • Identify sourcing opportunities and maintain initiative pipelines • Develop strategic sourcing plans, initiative pipelines, and category roadmaps • Monitor market intelligence, supplier segmentation, business demand patterns, and risk mitigation plans • Lead end-to-end sourcing events, including stakeholder alignment, supplier selection, RFP/RFQ execution, analysis, negotiations, and award recommendations • Partner with Legal, Finance, Compliance, IT, and business stakeholders on contract review and procurement objectives • Manage key supplier relationships, supplier performance reviews, issue resolution, and continuous improvement • Contribute to savings, value creation, and cost avoidance objectives • Track sourcing results, validate benefits with Finance, and support leadership reporting • Establish preferred supplier programs and professional services governance • Implement a finance-supported spend control tower for transparency into functional budgets • Lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence senior leaders to achieve enterprise objectives • Champion change management to drive adoption of procurement strategies, processes, and technologies • Serve as a procurement subject matter expert and advise stakeholders on procurement processes, market dynamics, supplier options, and commercial strategy • Share procurement knowledge and best practices with peers, analysts, and junior team members • Leverage digital procurement technologies, data analytics, and process automation to improve decision-making and stakeholder outcomes • Utilize procurement platforms and analytical tools to support category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier management, and performance reporting

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required • 5–7 years of procurement, strategic sourcing, supply chain, category management, finance, or related business experience • Experience managing complex indirect spend categories and supporting strategic sourcing initiatives • Strong experience leading negotiations, sourcing events, supplier evaluations, and contract support activities • Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and project management skills • Experience utilizing 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 leverage digital procurement technologies, data analytics, and process automation • Hands-on experience utilizing procurement platforms and analytical tools for category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier management, and performance reporting • Inside working conditions • No environmental hazards are indicated for this classification

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plan: medical, dental, and vision plans start on day one of employment for full-time teammates • Educational assistance for eligible teammates enrolled in an approved, accredited collegiate program • Employer-paid life insurance and disability coverage • Voluntary supplemental life, hospitalization, critical illness, and other insurance programs • Adoption assistance • Fertility benefits in the medical plan • Parental leave • Health Savings Account (HSA) • 401(k) • Paid sick days, short-term leave, holidays, vacation days, personal days, and additional types of leave • Teammate Assistance Program (TAP) • Calm Health • Cancer Resources Services • Discount programs at no cost