Procurement Category Lead Senior/Construction/Utilities

2 weeks ago

Valparaiso, United States Alliance Group Technologies Inc Full time

NO VISA SPONSORSHIPS at this time.....Principals only; no recruiter calls or emails.


Candidates local to the NorthWest Indiana/Chicagoland area preferred


Qualifications:

- Contracting experience – 10 plus years

- Intermediate to senior level

- RFP – 7 plus years

- Bidding & negotiations experience

- Direct Experience, non-IT

- Construction experience, large projects (utilities/commercial/industrial)

- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent work-related experience


• Proven track record to deliver results and achieve goals • Demonstrated ability to develop

effective working relationships with others

• Experience leading cross-functional teams

• Ability to build support and consensus

• Proven financial acumen and analytical abilities Preferred: MBA

• Certified Procurement Manager (CPM) • Three years of leadership experience

• Experience managing large supplier agreements• Experience working in a Shared Services

organization

• Supply Chain experience in the utility industry • Knowledgeable in category management and

strategic sourcing practices


Responsibilities:

- Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross-functional category management teams to

develop and maintain category plans and ongoing category performance

• Developing deep knowledge and experience within assigned spend management responsibilities

• Developing spend/performance and external market analyses to monitor category performance

and identify performance improvement opportunities

• Develop spending and savings/performance improvement forecasts to monitor progress and ensure

goals are achieved • Develop plans to capture identified opportunities

• Defining category requirements through collaborative efforts with respective stakeholder groups

• Collaborating with stakeholder groups to develop consensus on the appropriate category plans

and priorities

• Leading performance improvement initiatives defined by the category plan including strategic

sourcing and other performance improvement initiatives

• Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross-functional strategic sourcing/performance

improvement teams as needed/prescribed by category plans to achieve savings and performance targets (e.g. reduce cost, improve quality, and result in a lower total cost of ownership, meeting supplier diversity goals)

• Leading negotiations with suppliers as needed

• Maintaining critical supplier agreements including renewals, negotiation of terms, issue

identification, tracking, and resolution Supplier Management responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining supplier criticality ratings and managing resulting critical supplier

relationships

• Managing supplier relationships including conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with critical suppliers and NiSource Executive Sponsors Stakeholder Management responsibilities include:

• Developing successful partnerships with key stakeholders/business partners to achieve desired

results

• Developing and managing cross-functional category management and strategic sourcing teams

as needed

• Collaborating with stakeholders to drive needed decisions to achieve desired results

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