Senior Category Specialist

2 weeks ago


Bloomington, United States Cook Group Full time

Overview:

The Senior Category Specialist will support Global Directors and Category Managers Indirect and Direct procurement categories to learn categories, suppliers, processes and strategies.

Responsibilities:

Engage with category managers to learn categories, suppliers, processes, and strategies
Lead supplier order management for assigned suppliers globally including working with all entities on PO updates and providing forecasts to the supplier as needed
Lead supplier priority of CPNs with assistance from divisions for assigned suppliers globally
Lead supplier performance tracking and reporting for assigned suppliers globally and present out as needed.
Develop knowledge of product for assigned suppliers globally
Support Procurement Leadership & Global Category Managers on daily and on demand projects and activities as required
Lead price analysis and cost increases with the intention of benchmarking best practices and pricing

Analyze, pull data and reports with finance
Assist and provide support to Global Category Managers in the following:
o RFX strategic souring strategy
o Contract negotiations
o Business reviews
Make recommendation for process improvements from GCM to with Functional Excellence team
Assist in deployment of procurement technology - i.e. Oracle
Lead PRS and PAS procurement

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree or equivelant years of experience, and 5+ years working within Procurement or
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Work, PowerPoint, etc)



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