Fresenius Medical Care · 11 hours ago
Senior Global Category Manager (Oral Solids)
Waltham, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$132K/yr - $220K/yr
10+ years expFresenius Medical Care is a leading provider of healthcare services, and they are seeking a Senior Global Category Manager for Oral Solids. This role is responsible for leading and executing strategic procurement activities globally, focusing on category management and supplier relationships to optimize procurement strategies and ensure alignment with business goals.
BiotechnologyHealth CareMedical Device
Responsibilities
Champions the global structure of oral solid category management processes to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability, risk assessment, currency, and overall continuity, in alignment with business KPIs and other global category managers
Provides thought leadership in implementing sourcing strategies in collaboration with the medical office, business stakeholders and procurement operations to support, implement and govern initiatives
Manages global supplier relationships and products, decreases cost, maximizes reimbursement and/or sales margin, leverages scale, and establishes global SOPs for transfer of knowledge
Owns responsibility for supplier qualification, supplier selection, contract development with legal, implementation, compliance, ongoing supply base management process, and RFPs as appropriate utilizing Jaggaer and other tools
Leverages proven methods to develop and drive 3-to-5-year regional/global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management and business partner goals
Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and leverages predictive analytics to make recommendations to the regional/global business
Leads/participates in supplier business reviews, established pharmaceutical industry exhibitions and conferences
Removes roadblocks and organizational silos to support global information sharing and insights
Proactively engages Global Business Partners and functional stakeholders to gather business requirements for category strategy development
Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal stakeholders and reporting of sourcing impact(s)
Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration
Effectively collaborates with internal Global Pharma Category team and Regional and Local procurement to create shared expertise across categories for all areas of spend; APIs, Biologics, Injectables, Oral Solids and OTC/Other
Mentors and develops junior staff through coaching and activity inclusion to create pharma specific expertise
Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced and commercially sold without compromising quality and service levels and ensuring continuity of supply by proactively managing potential market disruptions through market insight and supplier relationships
Acts as the key category interface with all levels within FKC divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
Works with enterprise expertise to analyze cross-divisional spending and develops regional/global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, AI integration, Learning platforms and R2P tools company-wide
Closely partners with Procurement Supply Chain and Operations to activate and leverage insights from financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs, and inflation to continuously inform category strategy
Achieve defined goals for quality of procurement performance through metrics and feedback from constituent customer groups
Maintain, promote, and distribute key performance indicators to ensure continuous improvement
Champion a culture of continuous improvement within the Procurement department
Collaborate effectively with Regional Procurement to ensure the execution and integration of global and regional strategies
Ownership of all Pharma-related meetings and leadership presentations, representing the team successfully
Establish and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, manufacturers and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
Own the process of adding, updating and securing all savings for category in Wave and/or other identified tracking systems
Manages toward procurement KPI’s such as spend under contract, payments terms, etc. KPI’s to be regularly updated
Actively manage and execute new and existing contracts, conducting thorough reviews to guarantee contracts are robust and align with organizational standards and objectives
Qualification
Required
BS/BA Degree required
Minimum 10 years of progressive procurement experience, with at least 5 years of pharmaceutical or healthcare materials procurement
Strong leadership and business partnering skills with the ability to influence without authority
Excellent oral and written communication skills including compiling and presenting insights/recommendations to leadership
Excellent analytical ability, including interpreting data and developing recommendations based on analysis
Requires the ability to deal with ambiguity and the capacity to make succinct recommendations based on available information
Excellent planning ability, including identification of critical success factors, key obstacles, and risks
Thorough understanding of benchmarking, process mapping, process redesign, and other cost saving tools
Focus on key outcomes, not only processes or activities
Demonstrated ability to identify and balance interests of a variety of key stakeholders
Identify and confront issues and problems directly and promptly
Provide quick and decisive recommendations based on systematic analysis
Strong negotiation, communication and relationship building skills
Preferred
Life Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry or Pharmaceuticals preferred
MBA preferred
Advanced negotiations skills courses, a plus
Global healthcare experience, a plus
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
A 401(k) with company match
Paid time off
Parental leave
Potential for performance-based bonuses depending on company and individual performance
Company
Fresenius Medical Care
Fresenius Medical Care is a healthcare company that provides dialysis treatment for those with chronic kidney diseases.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$758.43M2025-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $579.5M
2025-07-21Post Ipo Equity· $4.86M
2020-02-25Post Ipo Equity· $6.07M
Leadership Team
Helen Giza
Chief Executive Officer
Joseph Turk
CEO of Care Enablement and Member of the Management Board of Fresenius Medical Care
Recent News
2025-11-19
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