Category Manager

🕒 July 6

❄️ Minnesota, Texas – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $125.6k - $172.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Solventum

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Logistics • Consulting

Solventum is a healthcare-focused company renowned for its innovative solutions aimed at improving medical and oral care outcomes. The company offers a variety of medical technologies, including advanced wound care, surgical solutions, and sterilization products. Solventum also provides advanced oral care solutions, health information and technology services, and purification and filtration products for biopharmaceutical applications. Furthermore, Solventum places a strong emphasis on sustainability and education, providing resources and training for healthcare professionals globally. Their commitment to innovation and better healthcare has made them a leader in the healthcare industry, dedicated to enhancing patient safety and healthcare efficiencies.

📋 Description

• Manage commercial, strategic, and tactical operational relationships with contract manufacturing suppliers • Develop and maintain a competitive supply base to ensure product availability • Manage supplier relationships and performance across service, cost, quality, and working capital • Lead contract negotiations, category strategies, supplier management, sourcing decisions, and dual-sourcing strategies • Engage Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Finance, Business Teams, Regulatory, and other functions to resolve issues and complete strategic initiatives • Develop continuous supply chain improvement practices, including lead-time reduction, supply chain agility, capacity optimization, cost reduction, and risk mitigation • Lead or support RFP/RFQ processes, benchmarking, make-versus-buy evaluations, should-cost analyses, total cost analyses, supply chain mapping, and New Product Introduction initiatives • Manage procurement processes as a Subject Matter Expert within the Purchased Finished Goods team • Support sub-tier supplier management and consolidation efforts and programmatic savings stage-gate transitions

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher, completed and verified prior to start • Seven (7) years of experience in a third-party supply chain and/or category management environment • Experience managing and developing supplier relationships • Experience negotiating contracts • Experience resolving complex supply chain issues involving multiple stakeholders • Experience communicating and collaborating with stakeholders at multiple organizational levels • Experience applying Supply Chain Finance, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), product validation requirements, or regulatory expectations • Experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders on complex projects • Project management experience managing timelines, resources, and risk across functional-area stakeholders • Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without employment visa sponsorship • Travel may include up to 10% domestic or international • Relocation assistance is not authorized

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable incentive pay, if eligible • Medical, Dental & Vision • Health Savings Accounts • Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Disability Benefits • Life Insurance • Voluntary Benefits • Paid Absences • Retirement Benefits • Up to 10% domestic or international travel may be included