Job Description
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Progress with purpose at one of Australia's largest health care providers
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Get ahead with salary packaging, benefits and career development in a supportive team environment
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Permanent full-time opportunity
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Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements available
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Flexible location across NSW, VIC,SA, ACT and TAS
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About the role
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The Senior Category Manager - Non-Clinical is accountable for strategy, prioritisation and delivery across Calvary's overall indirect and non-clinical category portfolio.
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Reporting to the Director Sourcing, the role leads a team, sets portfolio priorities, allocates work and provides formal people leadership. It owns the consolidated non-clinical sourcing pipeline, reviews and endorses category strategies and sourcing recommendations before escalation, and leads Calvary's most complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material non-clinical procurement activity.
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The role engages executive, operational, facilities and finance stakeholders and is accountable for the non-clinical team's aggregate savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risk outcomes.
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Your main duties will include:
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Safeguarding & compliance: Champion compliance with the National Catholic Safeguarding Standards and Calvary policies, fostering a culture of safety and wellbeing.
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Portfolio leadership: Own the indirect and non-clinical category portfolio, providing strategic direction across spend, market analysis, sourcing, demand management, standardisation and supplier management.
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Strategic sourcing & negotiations: Lead complex, enterprise-wide and commercially significant sourcing activities, RFTs, panels, sole-source arrangements and contract negotiations.
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Governance & team prioritisation: Review and endorse category strategies,



sourcing plans, evaluations and contract awards, while prioritising work and allocating resources across the sourcing team.
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Stakeholder & supplier management: Build executive and operational alignment on strategy and commercial risks, and resolve escalated supplier, operational and commercial issues.
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Performance & commercial insight: Monitor portfolio performance, savings, benefits, compliance, supplier performance and risks, using market intelligence to inform sourcing and negotiation decisions.
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About you
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Essential
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Minimum 8 years' procurement experience, including substantial senior-level category management experience across indirect, corporate services or similarly broad and complex portfolios.
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Demonstrated success leading complex, enterprise-wide and commercially material sourcing processes and contract negotiations with significant commercial, operational or supply outcomes.
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Strong commercial acumen with experience in spend analysis, supply market assessment, Total Cost of Ownership evaluation and benefits realisation.
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Demonstrated accountability for portfolio prioritisation, a consolidated sourcing pipeline and aggregate savings, benefits, compliance and risk outcomes.
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Proven ability to engage, influence and align executive, operational, facilities, finance and other functional stakeholders.
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Demonstrated formal people-management experience,



including objective setting, performance management, work allocation, capability development and quality assurance.
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Demonstrated experience reviewing and endorsing category strategies and sourcing recommendations and quality-assuring the work of category management and sourcing professionals.
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High standard of written communication including category strategies, sourcing plans, board-quality recommendation papers and contract briefs
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Desirable
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Tertiary qualification in procurement, supply chain, commerce, law or a related discipline.
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MCIPS or equivalent professional procurement qualification.
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Experience in healthcare, aged care, not-for-profit or complex multi-site service environments.
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Why work for Calvary?
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At Calvary, our staff matter.
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With over 130 years' experience and 18,000 staff and volunteers, we offer an inclusive and welcoming culture where you are valued, drawing on your own strengths, identity and background alongside a team of professionals who care for our patients, residents and clients.
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Your benefits:
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NFP salary packaging benefits, discounted health insurance and gym memberships
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Paid parental leave
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Training, development pathways and career opportunities
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Flexible hours that make sense for you
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Please note the following:
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As part of the application process, you will be required to complete pre-employment checks which may include, but is not limited to reference checks, work rights, criminal history check, NDIS/WWCC/WWVP checks, and a health evaluation to ensure suitability for the role
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You will be required to provide evidence of immunisation as required for your role
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📌 Senior Category Manager - Non Clinical (Canberra)
🏢 Calvary Care
📍 Canberra