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Associate Director, Procurement Category Value

3 months ago


North Chicago, United States AbbVie Full time

**Company Description**
**Job Description** Job Title **:Associate Director, Category Value Generation

**Proposed Job Title **:Associate Director, Category Value Generation

**Purpose**:
The Associate Director, Category Value Generation is responsible for shaping and executing the strategic vision for category management within a specific category, ensuring sustained value generation. This role involves implementing best practices, standards, and policies, driving category performance improvement initiatives, fostering collaboration among category managers and stakeholders, and serving as a central knowledge base for category management expertise.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage and execute the strategic vision for category management within a respective category, building a robust foundation for sustained value generation and enabling LRP success.
- Administer the development and implementation of category management best practices within a respective category, including enacting standards, policies and procedures, and training modules.
- Deploy category performance improvement initiatives, working alongside relevant category managers to develop, implement and track category strategies aligned with a standard category management framework.
- Facilitate collaboration between category managers and relevant stakeholders, activating core category management processes, including regular Category Business Reviews within a respective category.
- Enable collaboration and information sharing within a respective category, serving as a central knowledge base for category management expertise and ensuring accountability across the category management function.
- Manage tracking and reporting on category management performance, leveraging key category performance metrics for holistic value generation and identifying areas for improvement.
- Seek out high-visibility opportunities to share category value generation thought leadership in internal and external venues, positioning the team as a pillar of thought leadership across the industry.

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**Qualifications**
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or
- operations function.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing senior internal business and
- functional leaders.
- Proven expertise in category management and detailed understanding of category-specific
- requirements.
- Experience leading the development and implementation of category strategy to optimize
- processes.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt or related field. Master’s degree is preferred.

**Additional Information**
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.