<h1>Equipment and Capital Category Manager</h1><p class="MsoNormal">Position Objective:</p><p class="MsoNormal">Under the general supervision of the Manager, Contracts and Sourcing, the Equipment and Capital Category Manager drives strategic sourcing and contracting initiatives for equipment and capital projects. This role emphasizes systemwide standardization, capital planning, and cross-functional collaboration with Finance, Clinical, Information Services, Bio-Med, Risk Management, and Supply Chain. The Category Manager leads supplier negotiations, ensures contract and regulatory compliance, and oversees technology assessments to support enterprise goals and systemwide alignment.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong>Essential Job Duties:</strong></p><p class="MsoNormal">Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.</p><p class="MsoNormal">This role includes strategic category management, capital and operational budget collaboration, and leadership in sourcing, contracting and procurement activities. The manager drives value through data analysis, benchmarking, and supplier engagement, while ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and compliance standards.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Sourcing and Category Strategy Development:</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Demonstrates expertise in the use of external sources to keep abreast of trends, pricing, benchmarking tools, GPO initiatives, etc.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Use the RFP process and other decision support tools to perform analysis on supply usage trends in order to identify savings opportunities, drive standardization and equipment selection.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Conducts comprehensive market research, thorough financial analysis, and consults with appropriate department owners and teams to determine procurement strategy, assisting in lease v. buy v. place analysis.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Represents Supply Chain as a functional reviewer on all equipment and capital requests and manages requests through functional, clinical, technical and budgetary review processes.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">e.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Thoroughly reviews new requests, using a quality check list to validate departmental account and GL coding, pricing, supplier information/documentation and to ensure operational costs have been identified separately from capital costs</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">f.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Encourages consideration of small, woman-owned and minority vendors when presenting options to department users.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Strategic Procurement:</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span> Manages contracts through the appropriate procurement and contracting process.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Utilizes Symplr, GHx and GPO CLM tools</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">c.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Ensures Contract Compliance through collaboration with Value Analysis, Contract Administration and Legal as well as other necessary stakeholders such Finance, Biomed, IS and the Privacy office to ensure Contracts meet corporate standards and are executed in accordance to Supply Chain policies and procedures.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">d.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Responsible for ensuring that approvals and contracts are stored in the appropriate contract CLM Tools</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"> </p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>PO Execution and Reporting:</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">a.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Responsibly for the generation and design of purchase orders for Contracts, Service, Maintenance, Licenses and other POs that support the purchase of equipment and capital projects and non-capital- non routine supply purchases i.e. POs for contracts.</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1.0in">b.<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span>Continually reviews and updates capital budget report as needed.</p><