Category Manager - Professional Services (Indirect Procurement)

About the role

As the Category Manager - Professional Services, you'll execute and implement effective procurement and sourcing strategies for Terumo Blood & Cell Technologies' (TBCT) across multiple spend categories, with an emphasis on Professional Services and Marketing. Develops short-term and long-term strategies that align with the Company goals for reducing costs and meeting financial expectations. Continuously improves the Company’s global purchasing practices by identifying and leading efforts to proactively consolidate category spend, manage supplier performance, mitigate risk, and gain visibility to total spend.

Responsibilities

• Executes strategic sourcing strategies, best practices, and initiatives that support improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, enhanced service levels, improved coordination, delivery, pricing, payment terms, risk compliance and other areas as identified.
• Executes indirect procurement category sourcing strategies including the development and execution of RFXs, requirements gathering, development of supplier selection criteria, and supplier negotiations all in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Actively seeks ways to streamline business processes; researches and provides information on industry category trends and best practices.
• Develops negotiation strategies, gains alignment from stakeholders, leads cross-functional, category-based negotiation teams, and implements appropriate supplier risk analysis. Directly negotiates with suppliers.
• Uses spend data and business knowledge to identify sourcing projects for individual sub-categories and develops an overall multi-year plan.
• Manages category performance by adhering to savings goals, business objectives, and supplier management.
• Able to forge close working relationships throughout the company.
• Drives supplier performance improvements.
• Prepares business cases, including ROI models and effectively presents cost savings proposals to appropriate parties for approval and qualification.
• Ensures purchasing compliance with legal, financial, and regulatory requirements (e.g., JSOX).
• Advocates and adheres to global procurement policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Procurement or category management, preferably in multi-national company.
• Experience managing and supporting various categories of spend, particularly professional services and marketing and sales.
• Demonstrated sourcing experience developing and leading RFx’s and negotiating with suppliers.
• Proficient in sourcing and category management concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Proven critical thinking, analytics ability, and business acumen.
• Demonstrated comprehensive understanding of business requirements and category ownership having created categories strategies with sound analytics.
• Excellent understanding of contracts and contract management.
• Track record for achieving savings that impact the bottom line.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and possess the ability to thrive in a continuous improvement environment.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered. Master’s degree preferred.
• Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: CPSM, CPM, CPP, CPIM, or other designation preferred but not required.

Skills

• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to move seamlessly from tactical to strategic tasks.
• Must have a keen eye for detail, provide insights based on market conditions and trends, optimize value from/with suppliers, and improve and influence the decision-making process.
• Excellent analytical, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to develop and execute negotiation strategies. Strong negotiation skills.
• Proactive, results-oriented, reliable, persuasive and an excellent team player.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Proven ability to positively persuade and influence decision making, at all levels in the organization.
• Ability to prioritize well and maintain appropriate balance in a fast-paced, heavy-workload environment.

Benefits

We provide competitive total reward offerings that consist of compensation, benefits, recognition, along with a wealth of other well-being, work-life and recognition programs which support in unlocking the potential for you and your family. Included in our expansive list of benefits offerings are multiple group medical, dental and vision plans, a robust wellness program, life insurance and disability coverages, also a variety of voluntary programs such as group accident, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance and much more. To help you save for retirement, we offer a 401(k) plan with a matching contribution and for work-life balance we have vacation and sick time programs for associates. For us, it’s about protecting the personal welfare of our associates and their families, helping to achieve personal goals and offering those extra touches for convenience, security and overall peace of mind.

Pay

Target Pay Range: $110,500.00 to $138,200.00 - Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data

Schedule

Hybrid or Remote.

Physical Requirements

Typical office environment requirements include reading, speaking, hearing, close vision, walking, bending, sitting and occasional lifting up to 20 pounds.

Location

Lakewood, Colorado - (Hybrid) or Remote.

About Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies

At Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, our 8,000+ global associates proudly come to work each day, knowing that what we do impacts the lives of patients around the world. For Terumo, for Everyone, Everywhere. We make medical devices and related products that are used to collect, separate, manufacture and process various components of blood and cells. With our innovative technologies and service offerings, we touch a patient’s life every second of every day and are committed to increasing the number of patients we serve. Advancing healthcare with heart.

About Terumo Group

Founded in 1921 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Terumo Group is a global leader in medical devices and supplies. In 2024, Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies reached $1.5 billion in revenue. We employ nearly 8,000 associates globally, with global headquarters in Lakewood, CO, U.S., and regional headquarters in Brussels, Buenos Aires, Singapore and Tokyo. We manufacture devices, disposable sets and solutions at our facilities in Belgium, India, Japan, Northern Ireland, the U.S. and Vietnam. Our global presence enables us to serve customers in more than 130 countries.

Core Values

• Respect – Appreciative of others
• Integrity – Guided by our mission
• Care – Empathetic to patients
• Quality – Committed to excellence
• Creativity – Striving for innovation

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer. All applicants will be afforded equal opportunity without discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, order of protection status, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability unrelated to ability, military status or an unfavorable discharge from military service.

Drug-Free Workplace

We are committed to providing a safe, healthy and secure working environment. Our Colorado campus locations are tobacco-free workplaces, and we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing and detailed background verification.