Supply Chain Category Specialist III - Supply Chain Professional Services - Akron FirstEnergy Headquarters

About the role

This posting is for an open position for a Professional Services Category Specialist with the FirstEnergy Service Company, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp. FirstEnergy is expanding its team in key categories to further support our business partners across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Supporting the strategic category manager in achieving significant cost reductions in assigned professional services categories
• Defining contracting optimization strategies that seek total cost of ownership and service level improvements
• Partnering with stakeholders across the enterprise to develop optimization strategies, identify opportunities, and execute improvement plans
• Leveraging technology, analytics, and tools to collect and analyze supplier spend data to drive savings
• Analyzing supplier performance data and provide input to category sourcing strategy
• Developing strategic plans for contracting and improving managed categories
• Ensuring execution of strategies within user area
• Leading supplier selection and management
• Making sure to measure and track performance of overlooked suppliers
• Developing knowledge and best practices in the categories within areas of responsibility
• Ensuring user satisfaction of the strategic sourcing process
• Planning and leading RFP processes in assigned categories
• Negotiating contract conditions that are more favorable for FirstEnergy
• Tracking market dynamics of categories
• Defining cost benchmarks for categories under management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, business administration, engineering, or related discipline and 2+ years of related work experience is required.
• In lieu of a degree, High School or equivalent and 4+ years related work experience is required.
• Related work experience includes supply chain or sourcing.
• Project management experience is preferred.
• Professional Services sourcing experience preferred.
• Successful implementation of category improvements.
• Ensure compliance with all policies and procedures.