Category Manager, Medical Supplies and Equipment

6 months ago


Ottawa, Canada OMS Royal Drugs Full time

Our Mission:
Ontario Medical Supply is a Leading Distributor of medical equipment, supplies, and services for healthcare organizations and home healthcare clients across Ontario. Specializing in long term care, assisted living, retirement and home health care. Ontario Medical Supply is partnered for success with Royal Drugs. Royal Drugs is a healthcare company providing specialty pharmacy, infusion therapy, and retail pharmacy services. Together, we work towards supporting optimal health outcomes and better quality of life.

Come Join Our Team

Purpose:
This position is primarily responsible for developing and maintaining a robust sourcing strategy and streamlining processes to ensure overall best value procurement is achieved and external spending within the overall corporate spend has been optimized. This person will also ensure that their functional group continuously monitors the enterprise sourcing needs, researches the marketplace and assesses its ability to meet those needs and develops sourcing strategies to execute on those strategies. The Category Manager, Supplies and Equipment will work with the business lines and the Supply Chain team to support optimal delivery for the client.

Location: Ontario Medical Supply (OMS) - Ottawa, ON

Reports to: Senior Director, Corporate & Retail Sales

No. of Positions: 1

ATR: 4503

Type: Full time, Permanent

**Salary**: Salary, commensurate with experience

Benefits: Yes

Job Responsibilities:

- Support the design and implementation of best practice sourcing processes and policies
- Strengthen vendor relationships; negotiate terms and rebate programs, special prices and corporate contracts
- Promote and actively pursue continuous improvement on a regular and proactive basis of all procurement functions
- Communicate and meet regularly with vendors to discuss and improve performance, fill rates, quality, forecasts, and changes in the industry
- Perform market research and spend analysis on specific categories/programs
- Evaluate high spend categories of goods and services to determine where opportunities lie for pricing and contract renegotiations, contract/vendor consolidations, or alternative goods or services evaluations
- Identify new sources of supply on an ongoing basis and develop secondary sources
- Advise all related/involved parties on changes in markets
- Establish and maintain standard purchasing practices and policies to ensure honest, fair and ethical relationship with suppliers

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree is required
- Minimum 3+ experience as a product specialist or category manager within the Healthcare industry
- Must have strong interpersonal skills, communication skills and presentation skills
- PMAC is an asset
- Creative and conceptual thinker with well-developed analytical skills
- Ability to manage multiple tasks at once and have a sense of urgency and be deadline-oriented
- Must have strong decision-making and problem solving skills
- Demonstrates -attention to detail /organizational skills
- Ability to work independently within a team environment

Human Resources:
While we thank you for your interest, only select applicants will be contacted regarding the position.

Ontario Medical Supply is an inclusive and equal opportunity employer committed to providing diversity and accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and the Ontario Human Rights Code. All applicants must make their requirements known when contacted.


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