The Category Manager - Lab Scientific & Academic Services reports to the Sourcing Director and is responsible for maximizing company profitability for an assigned category to achieve established annualized savings targets. This position optimizes value across company expenditures by leading the acquisition of business and professional services. It owns development of the overall portfolio's and the individual category's strategies, and is responsible for monitoring and maintaining the implemented strategy on an ongoing basis.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Oversees various Lab & Scientific portfolio category strategy development and implementation activities leveraging current and future business requirements, market intelligence, and historical spend to drive cost reduction, enterprise consistency, and business value.
Develops and leads cross functional teams to execute on strategy.
Develops and maintains collaborative relationships with stakeholders to ensure strategy alignment to divisional needs over time as well as work collaboratively with Johns Hopkins Health System where interests align.
Provides category specific subject matter expertise and insights to internal clients and regular status updates of all projects to leadership.
Contributes a category specific initiative pipeline that will forecast and direct procurement projects and sourcing activities.
Maintains expertise in the spend category through relationships with the internal customers, suppliers and market experts.
Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with divisional leaders, clients and key stakeholders.
Directs the processing and maintenance of purchase orders, contracts and proposals for clients and vendors, per the spend category.
Accountable for the negotiation and establishment of preferential commercial terms with suppliers and directing, preparing and reviewing related legal contracts.
Works with legal, internal audit and other related compliance groups to ensure category strategies and supplier contracts account for relevant laws, regulations, and risk policies.
Assists in the recruitment, selection and training/coaching/development of personnel.
Acts as change agent and advocate for procurement as a value added partner.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Special Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Innovative Thinking: Proven ability to connect ideas, events, and circumstances to find category management solutions to business problems or goals.
Applies flexible approaches to achieving category management results in dynamic situations.
Skilled in change adoption, change management, and resource assessment.
Keen negotiation skills.
Strong contract knowledge of both commercial and legal terms.
Familiarity with applicable state and federal laws and regulations helpful.
Experience in use of eSourcing tools to enable optimal strategic outcomes.
Ability to work independently. Energetic and self-motivated.
Ability to influence others to voluntarily adopt category management practices.
Strong analytical and financial skills.
Strong oral and written communication.
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Power Point, Project, and Excel, eSourcing Rfx tools.
Knowledge of SAP a plus.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree required.
Minimum 5 years of progressive procurement experience, designing and implementing successful Category/Sub-Category strategies. Three year's experience with specific area of oversight.
Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

MBA or advanced degree in related discipline preferred. CPM or CPSM preferred.

Classified Title: Category Portfolio Group Manager
Working Title: Category Manager - Lab, Scientific & Academic Services
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE
Starting Salary Range: $71,230-$97,880-$124,510 Annually (commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/JH at Keswick
Department name: Buying
Personnel area: University Administration

Total Rewards
The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/

Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:

JHU Equivalency Formula: 30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience. Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis. For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

**Applicants who do not meet the posted requirements but are completing their final academic semester/quarter will be considered eligible for employment and may be asked to provide additional information confirming their academic completion date.

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check. Johns Hopkins is committed to hiring individuals with a justice-involved background, consistent with applicable policies and current practice. A prior criminal history does not automatically preclude candidates from employment at Johns Hopkins University. In accordance with applicable law, the university will review, on an individual basis, the date of a candidate's conviction, the nature of the conviction and how the conviction relates to an essential job-related qualification or function.

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The following additional provisions may apply, depending on campus. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.

The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.

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