Senior Category Manager

Responsibilities

• Deliver exceptional customer service to our business partners and suppliers regarding any Source to Settle products
• Negotiate, construct and review contracts with suppliers and business units
• Work with business unit leadership to monitor contract compliance
• Develop, champion and ensure implementation of ideas that will optimize total cost of ownership year-over-year for assigned spend categories
• Track forecasted versus actual savings for each category and be responsible for communicating performance against these measures and their potential budgetary impact
• Develop and implement commodity strategies and establish and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers to ensure successful implementation and support
• Drive negotiations to achieve states goals and objectives
• Remain current with market trends through relationships with suppliers and market experts; identify and communicate new technologies and solutions to key problems in the assigned spend areas
• Maintain a working knowledge of internal policies (e.g. procurement, code of ethics) or procedures to ensure the behavior exhibited by the organization is with the highest level of integrity, honesty and transparency
• Lead cross-functional negotiating teams targeting key spend categories
• Collaborate effectively across different organizational levels, functions, businesses and geographies to realize Source to Settle goals and objectives.

Qualifications

• Extensive indirect sourcing experience (minimum seven (7) years)
• Prominent track record of driving strategic change
• Strong communications skills
• The ability to handle multiple projects at once