Category Manager

1 week ago

Phoenix, United States eTeam Full time

Job Title: Contract Manager IV

Location: Hybrid @ Phoenix AZ

Duration: 06+ Months

Pay Rate: $55-$65/hr


Position Summary:

The Category Manager role is expected to develop and grow relationships with Technology and business partners to understand objectives, key priorities, and opportunities. The role will partner with customers to develop strategic, forward thinking plans with multi-year value generating initiatives to enable business success.


Responsibilities, at a high level, include:

• Understand spend profiles, leverage benchmarking, and prepare business cases and presentations for business leaders

• Partner with business leaders and Source to Contract team to develop sourcing strategies and plans, negotiate key deals and contracts and complete supplier assessments and selections through RFx activities or targeted negotiations

• Lead through strategic thinking, financial analytics, external marketplace focus and partnering closely with business units to influence and help drive key, strategic business decisions

• Bring external insights, innovative ideas, and an enterprise view on market trends, competitive landscape value generation and strategic sourcing opportunities

• Development of category and sourcing strategies leveraging best practices around supplier and services based on both internal conditions and plans as well as industry trends. This includes but is not limited to price, scope, performance, and optimal sourcing approach


Required Skills:

• Strong strategic thinking and planning skills, balanced with proven track record of delivering tangible results in complex, global and matrix work environment

• Excellent relationship management and communication skills with ability to collaborate and influence across levels with internal and external partners (including senior executives) globally. Proven ability to engage and maintain senior stakeholder relationship

• Proven track record of data analysis to develop insights and recommendations, solve business challenges, improve customer experience and bottom-line results

• Strong leadership skills and commitment to collaborating and partnering with customers, colleagues and key stakeholders to deliver high-quality output with limited resources

• Positive attitude, ability to work in a fluid, fast-paced, and at times unstructured environment and maintain flexibility to meet the changing needs of the customers, business units and the organization

• Extensive Technology category management and/or sourcing experience

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