Business Relationship Category Leader

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Summary:

• Provide oversight and leadership to Business Relationship & Category Managers and/or Procurement Operations personnel.
  
• Responsible for overseeing the Procurement relationship for EmblemHealth Enterprise
  
• Partner with assigned business areas to develop business strategy, solution discovery, service management, risk management and relationship management for EmblemHealth Enterprise
  
• Accountable for the procure-to-pay process, including the services provided by the procurement team through our thirdparty partners to deliver to the business.
  
• Evaluate business requirements, provide supply market insights and solutions, reduce cost and/or optimize value by aligning on business, procurement, and category strategies.
  
• Facilitate and lead the planning and execution of initiatives to enable the organization and internal business owners to achieve optimal business objectives.
  
• Manage and monitor the delivery of the category plan minimizing any category risks.
  
• Recommend approaches to measure outcomes achieved through the implementation of category plans.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the escalation point for category business relationship managers and business partners for procurement related issues.
  
• Partner with assigned business areas to develop business strategy, solution discovery, service management, provide risk management and relationship management.
  
• Maintain strategic planning routines with business leaders to holistically evaluate and maximize the end-to end value chain as well as the individual contracts.
  
• Proactively identify and evaluate risks associated with procurement and business decisions.
  
• Partner with business leaders in solving problems and meeting business objectives using procurement solutions to support the organization's short-term and long-term business goals/strategy, acting as an advocate for business needs and required results.
  
• Identify cost efficiencies and savings opportunities, assess and provide strategic recommendations based on business relevance, appropriate timing, cost, risk and quality.
  
• Challenge and review key practices and decisions with the business to drive improvement.
  
• Provide Project / Portfolio Management.
  
• Manage and oversee portfolio of projects for business
  
• Gather business needs and document business requirements; translate business requirements into a process and cost structure for design and development of solutions
  
• Communicate with procurement, business leaders and project managers, and other stakeholders to ensure awareness of progress, risks, and results
  
• Enable compliant, timely execution of procurement processes by partnering effectively with Procurement Operations.
  
• Provide oversight and guidance to enable sourcing (e.g. RFx), contracting and purchasing activities for assigned business areas. Ability to lead the entire sourcing lifecycle, including developing and managing requests for proposals (RFPs), negotiating complex contracts, and ensuring terms and conditions are favorable and compliant with regulations.
  
• Gather business needs and document business requirements; translate business requirements into a process and cost structure for design and development of solutions.
  
• Negotiate agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business stakeholders and procurement from initial requirements to final implementation.
  
• Communicate with procurement business leaders and project managers, and third-party partners and other stakeholders to drive results and ensure awareness of progress and risks.
  
• Recap (monthly, quarterly, and annually, as needed) procurement performance and produce and communicate regular category dashboards to the business.
  
• Prepare sole source and/or high-risk justification and facilitate the associated governance process and controls.
  
• Identify and mitigate potential problems and conflicts with procurement delivery.
  
• Perform analysis of all category spend; utilize Category Management tools and techniques to deliver optimum category strategy, inform optimum procurement strategy, continually reduce costs, and drive value.
  
• Work with the business to develop category strategies based on key recommendations from the analysis team which drive opportunities for the EmblemHealth Enterprise
  
• Measure the success of outcomes achieved through the implementation of category plans.
  
• Define supplier relationship management requirements and approach for assigned categories and/or suppliers, including SLAs, KPIs, relationship governance, etc as required.
  
• Analyze reports and market trend information to understand and communicate the impact of procurements goals.
  
• Advocate recommendations for solution options in conjunction with procurement resources.
  
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities and provide recommendations based on business relevance, appropriate timing, cost, risk and quality.
  
• Advise on supply chain options and the associated risks, costs versus benefits, and impacts on products and services and business processes.