Category Manager, Indirect Goods & Services (Contract)

Give hope. Give health. Make your mark in the fight against cancer.

At Accuray, we make a direct and powerful impact on the lives of cancer patients every day — helping them live longer, better lives. But our commitment to innovation offers a truly unique opportunity: the chance to change the fight against cancer — helping to develop, introduce and support new treatment delivery systems and software that will give new hope and new health to cancer patients and cancer survivors around the world.

Accuray develops, manufactures and sells radiotherapy systems for alternative cancer treatments. Our radiation therapy for cancer makes treatment shorter, safer, personalized and more effective, ultimately enabling patients to live longer, better lives.

Job Description

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accountable for full category management and sourcing activities across various indirect categories.
• Develops and delivers on annual plan and areas of concentration delivering value creation and cost reduction for various indirect goods and services.
• Develops and maintains strong supplier relationships, ensures corporate integration of cost controls and policy compliance, leads cross functional collaboration, provides negotiation support, and drives total value improvements through corporate indirect spend.
• Supports cross functional departments with supplier negotiation, contract execution, purchase requisition training for services and indirect material spend. Facilitates cross-functional project implementation, controls, and training for indirect material sourcing activities, as well as providing related corporate-wide communication and direction.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to develop a pipeline for future projects for OPEX services and indirect spend.
• Effectively collaborates within the Supply Chain department to leverage the Company's ERP functionality as it relates to supply chain and logistics processes, and supplier performance through KPIs and dashboards that provide business intelligence.
• Collaborates with the Supply Chain and Logistics teams for supplier development, supplier surveillance, and monitoring performance metrics.
• Supports supplier data integrity, contributes to the development of process and procedures to support regulatory approvals

QUALIFICATIONS:

Preferred or Desired:

• Proven results leveraging strategic sourcing methodologies to deliver improvement and value across key indirect categories (i.e., Professional Services, Software, MRO, IT services, telecom, Logistics, Facilities, Fleet, Travel, temporary labor, engineering services, consulting)

• Solid understanding of all phases of the source to settle lifecycle, supplier relationship management, and contract management

• Understanding of and ability to negotiate fundamental commercial, legal, and risk management contract terms and conditions

• Demonstrated performance for delivering high profile, productive, and profitable project solutions

• Experience managing projects involving internal and external collaborators within multicultural, cross business units, different time zones and countries.

• Creative problem solving and resilience in dynamic, challenging, and sometimes ambiguous project efforts.

• Certification and/or training in Strategic Sourcing, Negotiation, LEAN, Data Analytics, or Project Management

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Finance, Business Management, or another related field.
• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in Supply Chain, Finance, business process, or data integration industries.
• Ability to effectively navigate formal and informal communication and decision-making channels across all levels of a matrixed organization to deliver results.
• Ability to work on multiple, concurrent issues of diverse scope with diverse project teams of varying size.
• Ability to develop and deliver clear, crisp communications (written and verbal) customized to the needs of different audiences, ensuring timely and relevant communication.
• Highly effective in core competencies linked to the CEO Mindset to include team collaboration, professional presence, self-awareness, communications, continuous improvement/change agent, decision making, engagement, accountability, and financial discipline.
• Strong business acumen, organizational skills, project execution skills, influencing and communication skills.
• Ability to see the big picture and able to synthesize, analyze, and draw insights from large data sets to inform the best path forward.
• Strong business curiosity, understanding of the full Integrated Supply Chain and business operations, with the ability to be change agent.
• 10-20% travel may be required.

To qualify for this position, candidates must be able to furnish proof that they are authorized to work in the country they are applying on a permanent basis without sponsorship.

EEO Statement

At Accuray, our commitment to patient-first outcomes drives an inclusive and collaborative work environment where the best ideas rise to the top — and everyone works to push them further. We value diversity in both the professional and personal backgrounds of our employees, as this variety adds rich energy to every team, every project and every work day. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin – including individuals with disabilities and veterans.