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Category Manager, Healthcare Operations

Job in Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, 96814, USA
Listing for: HMSA
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-07-30
Job specializations:
  • Business
    Business Analyst
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 120000 - 170000 USD Yearly USD 120000.00 170000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
  • Category Strategy and Planning
    • Partner with the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) and operations leadership to develop multi-year category strategies for Healthcare operations vendors.
    • Lead execution of operations vendor strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, digital transformation, and cybersecurity priorities.
    • Coordinate with operations leadership on vendor demand planning, technology roadmaps, product life cycles, and modernization efforts.
    • Conduct market research and stay up to date with current trends across operational vendors and products.
    • Identify cost optimization, rationalization, standardization, and risk mitigation opportunities.
  • Strategic Sourcing and Contracting
    • Lead sourcing, competitive events (RFx), and negotiation of complex healthcare operations contracts ($1M-$5M+) including requirements definition, supplier evaluation, and award recommendations.
    • Structure and negotiate commercial terms (PMPY, tiered pricing, FTE-based, shared savings, performance-based models).
    • Ensure strong contractual language including SLAs, KPIs, auditing, data privacy, regulatory compliance, etc.
    • Drive renewals, amendments, and re-negotiations to optimize total cost of ownership.
  • Vendor Governance and Performance Oversight
    • Provide vendor oversight for Health Operations suppliers, owning commercial performance of vendors, including cost, value realization, and contract adherence.
    • Partner with business owners and/or vendor managers to ensure alignment between financial outcomes and operational performance.
    • Partner with Vendor Managers and Health Operations owners to ensure governance, QBRs, continuous improvement, and issue resolution.
    • Support privacy, cybersecurity, third party risk, and regulatory compliance assessments.
    • Identify opportunities for cost recovery, demand management, and contract re-baselining.
  • Financial and Value Management
    • Analyze health operations vendor spend and utilization trends to identify savings opportunities; deliver and track quantifiable cost savings, cost avoidance, and value creation across health operations spend.
    • Validate pricing structures and ensure invoice accuracy and budget impacts.
    • Develop business cases for contract decisions, sourcing decisions, vendor consolidations, and vendor transitions.
    • Support medical cost containment initiatives, budget cycles, forecasting, and health operations investment planning.
  • Stakeholder and Cross-Departmental Collaboration
    • Serve as strategic advisor to healthcare operations leadership.
    • Partner with Legal, Compliance, Finance, IT, and Risk Management throughout sourcing lifecycle.
    • Educate business stakeholders on procurement governance, contract requirements, vendor best practices, and policy.
    • Influence stakeholders toward enterprise-aligned vendor decisions.
  • Performs all other miscellaneous responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
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