[Hiring] Global Category Manager - Contracts and Purchased Finished Goods @ICU Medical

Role Description

The Global Category Manager leads the strategic procurement category management for assigned categories, with a primary focus on third-party manufacturing (TPM), external supply partners, and Purchased Finished Goods (PFG). This role drives value through cost optimization, supplier performance improvement, and risk mitigation while ensuring continuity of supply and service excellence.

The successful candidate will:

• Lead cross-functional initiatives.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships.
• Leverage data-driven insights, market intelligence, and benchmarking to deliver innovative procurement solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Serve as the commercial owner of supplier contracts, including contract strategy, negotiation, execution, lifecycle management, and governance.
• Provide contracting support for PFG.
• Partner closely with Legal, Quality, Finance, and business stakeholders to structure and manage agreements that optimize total cost of ownership (TCO), mitigate risk, and ensure compliance.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive understanding of strategic sourcing and category management.
• Demonstrated leadership including the ability to develop a vision, strategies, and tactics that will lead the organization to stated goals and objectives.
• Strong negotiating, project management, problem solving, relationship management, and decision-making skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Superior data management skills utilizing Microsoft Excel.
• Ability to multitask, work in a demanding environment, and meet deadlines.
• Advanced contract management experience including contract structuring, lifecycle management, and compliance enforcement.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to translate business needs into enforceable contractual terms.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) required; Master of Science or MBA preferred.
• 8-10 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in global or multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Commercial experience in indirect sourcing and/or outsourced services sourcing.
• Demonstrated experience leading contract negotiations and managing complex supplier agreements.
• Experience negotiating commercial contract terms and partnering with Legal business partners.
• Experience negotiating and managing high dollar contracts.
• Management of large spend portfolios sourced on a global scale.
• Experience managing multi-functional, cross-site teams.
• Proven ability to successfully introduce change in a center-led management model.
• Experience working with large ERP systems; Oracle preferred.
• Project management experience.

Work Environment

• This is largely a sedentary role.
• This job operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment.
• Typically requires travel less than 5% of the time.

Company Description

ICU Medical has consistently provided you with clinical innovations that help solve real-world challenges. With the acquisition of Hospira Infusion Systems in 2017 and Smiths Medical in 2022, we are now a global market leader with a complete line of clinically-essential IV therapy and high-value critical care products for hospital, alternate site, and home care settings.

We're ready to bring you consistent quality, innovation, and value in more areas than ever. Our focus allows us to bring you:

• Dedicated and non-dedicated IV sets and needlefree connectors clinically proven to provide an effective barrier against bacterial transfer and colonization.
• The industry’s broadest IV smart pump offering covering large volume, pain management, and ambulatory needs.
• IV medication safety software providing full IV-EHR interoperability with the highest customer satisfaction and compatibility with more EHR systems than any other company.
• Significant US IV solutions manufacturing and supply capabilities.