Greater Purpose and Core Values: Athletico’s Greater Purpose is to empower people, inspire hope and transform lives. We accomplish this by providing exceptional, progressive, and cost-effective fitness, performance and rehabilitative services through personalized care that emphasizes education and prevention of future injury. This is accomplished through building on our Core Values of one team, understanding our business, recognition, people-focused, accountability, continuous innovation and trust and integrity, which are the foundation for our unique culture.
Position Summary: The Procurement Manager supports and optimizes the enterprise-wide procurement strategy for equipment, clinical supplies, and related categories, focusing on supplier performance, process mapping/improvement, and collaboration across 900+ facilities. This role manages sourcing initiatives, vendor partnerships, capital planning activities, and purchasing operations to ensure reliable clinic operations and optimized total cost of ownership. This role will drive continuous improvement in request intake, approvals, ordering, and lifecycle tracking with a goal to reduce manual effort, increasing clinic self‑service, and enable data‑driven decision‑making for equipment and supply investments. The Manager partners closely with Operations, Legal, Real Estate, and Clinical leadership to align investment, service, quality, and growth objectives, while identifying opportunities for efficiency and value creation.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support the development and execution of strategies for equipment and related categories, including market analysis, supplier selection, and ongoing performance management.
- Manage key supplier relationships and oversee contract compliance, service-level expectations, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Support capital planning for equipment and clinical supplies, including multi-year forecasting, prioritization of investments, and budget alignment with enterprise goals.
- Drive continuous process improvement by analyzing purchasing operations, implementing system enhancements, and standardizing workflows.
- Oversee and optimize day-to-day operations of procurement workflows and vendor management to ensure accuracy, efficiency, and compliance with company policies.
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Operations, Legal, Facilities, and Real Estate) to plan equipment-related projects such as openings, relocations, and consolidations.
- Develop data-driven recommendations and gain alignment from senior stakeholders through effective communication and presentation.
- Provide coaching and guidance to junior team members involved in purchasing and logistics.
- Support change management by assisting in the development of job aids, process documentation, and communications for clinics.
- Maintain and optimize procurement-related catalogs for office supplies, clinical supplies and equipment.
- Analyze off‑catalog requests and recommend catalog expansions, substitutions, or standardization opportunities.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or a related field required.
- 3–5 years of experience in sourcing or category management, preferably in a multi-location or healthcare environment.
- Prefer experience working with procurement systems, intake workflows or service management platforms (e.g., ServiceNow).
- Strong analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects and influence senior stakeholders.
- Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
Language Skills:
- Ability to read, write and speak English proficiently.
Physical Demands:
- Ability to fulfill office activities including but not limited to remain stationary for extended periods of time (i.e., while working at a desk), stoop/kneel/crouch, travel around the office, communicate with others (verbal and written), and use fine motor skills including fine hand manipulation and keyboarding.
- Ability to see at close range, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 20-25 pounds.
Work Environment:
- Consistent with a standard office environment.
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