Sr. Manager, Category Management & Strategic Sourcing

Are you motivated to participate in a dynamic, multi-tasking environment? Do you want to join a company that invests in its employees? Are you seeking a position where you can use your skills while continuing to be challenged and learn? Then we encourage you to dive deeper into this opportunity. We believe in career development and empowering our employees. Not only do we provide career coaches internally, but we offer many training opportunities to expand your knowledge base!

We have highly competitive benefits with a variety of HMO and PPO options. We have company 401k match along with an Employee Stock Purchase Program. We have tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and even start employees off with 16 days of paid time off plus holidays. We offer wellness courses and have highly engaged employee resource groups. Come join the Neo team and be part of our amazing World Class Culture!

who wants to continue to learn in order to allow our company to grow.

As an employer, we promise to provide you with a purpose-driven mission in which you have the opportunity to save lives by improving patient care through the exceptional work you perform. Together, we will become the world's leading cancer reference laboratory.

The Sr. Manager, Category Management & Strategic Sourcing leads the development and execution of category strategies that align with the Neo Genomics corporate strategy and financial goals. This high-impact role focuses on optimizing non-core expenditures, achieving substantial cost savings, enhancing supplier performance, and ensuring supply reliability for services and goods that enable our labs, offices, R&D, commercial teams, and corporate functions.

The Sr. Manager, Category Management & Strategic Sourcing partners closely with Finance, IT, Facilities, HR, Marketing, Legal, Quality/Regulatory, and Operations leaders to align indirect sourcing strategies with business goals, support scalable growth in a fast-paced diagnostics environment, and contribute meaningfully to operating margin improvement.

• Lead end-to-end category management and strategic sourcing for major indirect spend categories including facilities management and maintenance (e.g., janitorial, HVAC, building services, utilities), IT hardware, software, cloud services, and telecommunications, professional services (e.g., consulting, legal, marketing/advertising for oncology education, temporary staffing, audit services), MRO items, lab support supplies (non-direct consumables), and PPE/office supplies, logistics, travel and expense management, waste management/recycling, and calibration/maintenance services (nonproduct critical), and HR-related services (e.g., benefits administration, recruiting, training)
• Develop and execute multi-year category strategies that deliver annual savings targets (typically 5–12%+ YoY on managed spend) through supplier consolidation, competitive bidding, total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization, demand management, and value engineering
• Perform in-depth spend analytics, market intelligence, supplier benchmarking, and risk assessments to uncover opportunities and mitigate exposures in indirect categories
• Lead complex global RFx events (RFI/RFP/RFQ), supplier evaluations, negotiations, and contract management for long-term agreements, ensuring robust SLAs, compliance, and cost predictability
• Drive indirect supply chain resilience, including supplier diversification, contingency planning, and risk monitoring for categories vulnerable to disruption (e.g., IT services, facilities during lab expansions)
• Ensure full compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., data privacy/GDPR for IT vendors, ethical sourcing, conflict minerals where applicable) and internal policies in a diagnostics-regulated environment
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support business initiatives such as office/lab expansions, digital transformation, marketing campaigns for cancer screening awareness, and cost-control efforts amid rapid growth
• Mentor and develop team members in indirect procurement best…