University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC)

RN - Category Manager - Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

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Job Requisition ID:

R00053084

Job Category:

Nursing

Organization:

SC-Clinical Category Management/Procurement

Location/s:

Central Billing Office-Clinton

Job Title:

RN - Category Manager - Clinical Category Management/ Procurement

Job Summary:

Responsible for actively leading and supporting the UMMC department stakeholders, business managers, and value analysis teams in identifying and executing clinical strategic sourcing decisions designed to reduce operational expense, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes. Contributes to quality, clinical and financial initiatives by actively seeking and facilitating opportunities for standardization, decreased operational expense and increased revenue with contracting, purchasing, and value analysis.

Education & Experience

Bachelor's degree in Nursing with five (5) years clinical, healthcare management, or clinical education experience.

Certifications, Licenses or Registration required:  valid RN license

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Leadership, organizational, facilitative, communication, negotiation, and analytical skills.   A strong knowledge of medical supplies and processes with expertise in physician relations.  Must have ability to lead strategies to address physician product preferences and utilization variation.  Knowledge of Microsoft office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, and Word) preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for providing supply chain leadership and support and serves as a supply chain liaison between clinicians and the supply chain department.
  • Actively assists departments in the management of commodity and contract services expenses.
  • Identifies and communicates expense variances and assists in the development of strategic sourcing initiatives to reduce cost, increase revenue, and improve patient outcomes.
  • Assists UMMC departments in the development, financial analysis, and processing of department contracts for commodities and contract services
  • Provides active leadership and support to specific value analysis teams.
  • Facilitates utilization of data collection, market research, and spend analytics as best practice for UMMC strategic sourcing process.
  • Works with GPO and suppliers to develop strategic opportunities and partnerships to support established financial targets.
  • Works with the value analysis teams and the contracts department in the negotiation of contracts, development of RFP, and support of competitive bids.
  • Works with the purchasing department to assure that all strategic initiatives are implemented and monitored to assure the expected value is realized.
  • Provides effective communication to physician chairs, senior leadership, strategic sourcing support members, value analysis teams, end-users, and other stakeholders to establish collaborative communication related to strategic sourcing initiatives.
  • Serves as a professional and knowledgeable representative of the organization to outside suppliers and partners.
  • Actively engages in professional development opportunities to remain current and knowledgeable with healthcare business trends and best practices related to healthcare supplies and services.
  • The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.


    Physical and Environmental Demands
    Requires occasional travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, constant work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, occasional driving, occasional kneeling, occasional pushing/pulling, occasional reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

    Time Type:

    Full time

    FLSA Designation/Job Exempt:

    Yes

    Pay Class:

    Salary

    FTE %:

    100

    Work Shift:

    Benefits Eligibility:

    Grant Funded:

    Job Posting Date:

    09/11/2026

    Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):

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