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Category Manager
Eingestellt von Synectics
Gesuchte Skills: Support, Consultant, Consultants
Projektbeschreibung
DUTIES:
- Establish master material and service agreements (blanket contracts) and support special projects as well as complex sourcing initiatives. Participate in periodic special project initiatives. Accountable for category purchases (including tactical); become involved on an as-needed bases to resolve emergent issues.
- Maintain and own the position of primary contact for the resolution of systemic/recurring supplier/customer issues. Develop close working relationships with supplier and end customers. Monitor supplier performance to ensure that contract terms and conditions are being met or exceeded; and performance meets customer expectations. Manage and/or support supplier alliance process and own/manage all supplier relationships. Lead and/or support all supplier relationship development programs and suppler alliance periodic meetings.
- Manage categories and provide oversight and governance of associated purchases; perform category spend and risk analysis; and design and implement category and supplier risk mitigation strategies.
- Provide direction to contract administrators, procurement and sourcing specialists and other supply personnel, as appropriate, within assigned business and spend categories.
- Identify and implement sourcing and category management best practices.
- Lead personnel (both within and external to Supply) to achieve objectives across related categories and/or across multiple sourcing initiatives. Prioritize competing needs and assign tasks to support strategic sourcing initiatives and other Supply projects, as appropriate.
- Identify and manage category risks and align category profiles with business unit needs, company direction and goals.
Support the Business Units' Emergency Response activities as assigned
SKILLS:
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, science or related field with a minimum of five (5) years experience or High School diploma or equivalent, with nine (9) years of experience.
- Ideal candidate will have experience in supply chain procurement from Big 4 Consulting firms. Consulting Procurement.
- Demonstrated project and change management skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of category and supply management concepts.
- Adept and persuasive communicator (verbal, written).
- Cross functional/organizational team management and facilitation skills (internal and external).
- Demonstrated data analysis capability.
- Demonstrated negotiation skills. Ability to hold Suppliers accountable for performance.
- Conflict management experience.
- Technical aptitude (category specific requirement)
- Availability for travel across sites, Supplier locations and business units as business needs dictate
- Need a background that is a hybrid of Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Staffing.
- Need to have either sourced consultants or have been a consultant in the past. Consultant being defined in this case as someone who comes in and shares expertise on certain topics. Not just a contract worker.
- Need to have good experience within labor and employment law.
- Need procurement background on the Services/Indirect Spend side - not the goods/materials/direct spend side.
Projektdetails
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Einsatzort:
Chicago, Vereinigte Staaten
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Projektbeginn:
asap
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Projektdauer:
Keine Angabe
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Berufserfahrung:
Keine Angabe
Geforderte Qualifikationen
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Kategorie:
Organisation/Management, Sonstiges