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Role Description
This senior individual contributor position is responsible for developing category/spend strategies for key categories by leveraging extensive knowledge of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs.
• Building long-term relationships with key internal clients and suppliers
• Owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management
• Identifying and understanding key initiatives of internal clients and short, medium, and long-term goals
• Ensuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations
• Adopting change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive strategic programs
• Interacting with leadership to review and drive decisions
• Leading the RFP process and/or supplier negotiations
• Developing and executing RFPs
• Leveraging analytics and insights to ensure data-driven decisions
• Analyzing category spend to understand price drivers and trends
• Applying cost and supply market analytics
• Applying a digital mindset to adopt new technologies in the source to pay space
Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Management Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, Contract Administration, Procurement or a directly related field
• Minimum three (3) years experience in category management, strategic sourcing, or a directly related field
• Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement
• Advanced degrees may be substituted for the work experience requirements
Requirements
• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise
• Builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback
• Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses
• Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback
• Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects
• Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions
• Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines
• Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams
• Develops category/spend strategies for key categories
• Develops and maintains relationships with key internal clients and suppliers
• Leads RFP process and/or supplier negotiations and facilitates contracting
• Leverages analytics and insights to ensure data-driven decisions
• Adopts change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders
• Contributes to KPs Sustainability and Environmental goals
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