Category Lead

3 weeks ago

Owings Mills, United States Ageatia Global Solutions Full time
Duties and Responsibilities

Lead Stakeholder Engagement and Sourcing Initiatives:
  • Collaborates with business stakeholders and procurement management to determine sourcing category strategy.
  • Responsible for working with business stakeholders and procurement management to frame and develop project objectives, requirements, and sourcing strategy prior to supplier engagement.
  • Drafts and leads the applicable sourcing process through scoring and completion (e.g. RFx, sole source, etc.).
  • Acts as primary contact with potential suppliers during the RFx, selection, and negotiation process.
  • Leads supplier negotiations throughout RFx and contracting process to achieve optimal savings, value, and risk profile.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Required: This position requires a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; and four (4) to six (6) years' experience in a relevant functional assignment (e.g. Professional Services, Facilities, HR, Marketing, IT, IT Services, or other applicable procurement focus area).
  • Extensive experience in managing the end to end sourcing process from requirements gathering through RFx and contracting.
  • Robust pricing and contractual negotiations with suppliers.
  • Effective presentation and influencing skills to interface with multiple levels of management.
  • Experience in analyzing pricing and determining price reasonableness.
  • Proven experience with key category suppliers.

Skills and Abilities:
  • Excellent project and time management skills including but not limited to risk assessment, workplan development and management.
  • Developed analytical, organizational and coordination skills.
  • Able to apply complex problem-solving abilities to achieve problem ad process solutions.
  • Ability to spot, communicate and mitigate issues.
  • Flexibility and ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Must be able to effectively work in a fast-paced environment with frequently changing priorities, deadlines, and workloads that can be variable for long periods of time.
  • Must be able to meet established deadlines and handle multiple customer service demands from internal and external customers, within set expectations for service excellence.
  • Must be able to effectively communicate and provide positive customer service to every internal and external customer.

Desirable:
  • Experience in the Health Insurance industry.
  • Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
  • Knowledge of Ariba or similar procurement automation tools.

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