Jobs · Purchasing · Texas

Category Manager

Aspen Technical Staffing, Inc. · San Antonio, TX · 4 mo ago
On-sitePurchasingContract

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and coordinate strategic sourcing events while serving as a subject matter expert for supply chain and procurement teams throughout the sourcing lifecycle
  • Develop and execute category management strategies using utilization analysis, benchmarking, cost models, and enterprise spend data
  • Establish category goals, KPIs, and performance metrics focused on savings, risk mitigation, supplier performance, and value delivery
  • Potentially partner with estimating, proposals, and sourcing teams to align pricing strategies, commercial models, indexing strategies, and risk mitigation approaches
  • Analyze spend and utilization data while building dashboards and reporting tools to support forecasting and category performance tracking
  • Maintain proficiency with procurement and ERP systems including Oracle, PPMS, and third-party supplier platforms
  • Drive process improvements, training initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts across procurement functions

Qualifications

  • Required: Bachelor's degree in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, or related field
  • Required: 5–7+ years of category management or strategic sourcing experience within EPC, industrial construction, manufacturing, or engineering environments
  • Required: Proven experience developing and executing category strategies, spend analysis, cost modeling, and supplier performance initiatives
  • Required: Experience supporting large capital projects and sourcing engineered equipment, fabricated materials, OEM products, or bulk materials
  • Preferred: Experience supporting multiple industrial market sectors
  • Preferred: Experience working with external clients and engineering organizations
  • Preferred: Advanced analytical experience including commodity cost modeling, pricing analysis, and ROI evaluation

Skills

  • Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills with engineering, estimating, operations, and executive leadership teams
  • Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and organizational skills

Benefits

  • Assistance with the application process is available upon request.

Pay

  • TBD

Schedule

  • TBD

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