Procurement Category Manager

3 weeks ago


Chicago, Illinois, United States Motorola Solutions Full time
Job Description

This role provides essential procurement and supplier expertise in the areas of strategic sourcing and category management with strong commercial and contractual experience with a high focus on Software.

This role will deliver high-quality, innovative, and proven cost-effective methodologies to support company and department objectives. This role will interface and foster a collaborative environment with cross-functional teams. This role requires exceptional verbal and written communication, strong organizational, and time management skills.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead and execute long-term agreements through formal RFx methodologies.
  • Analyze spend data and industry dynamics to identify, prioritize, and launch sourcing initiatives.
  • Identify value/savings opportunities, processes, and best practices.
  • Establish positive relationships across the business units to ensure active and early participation in supplier-related matters.
  • Lead negotiations in both financial and business matters, including commercial terms and risk mitigation for strategic contracts.
  • Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements, budgets, and current gaps and challenges to develop best strategic sourcing strategies.
  • Support strategic sourcing best practices, including driving supplier segmentation, scorecards, and facilitating strategic business reviews in collaboration with business partners.
  • Lead supplier contract renewals and leverage competitive pricing, quality, and customer service.
  • Develop strategic relationships with existing or new key suppliers and ensure appropriate engagement levels exist to drive partnership objectives.
  • Identify process improvements to increase efficiencies and maximize spend opportunity.
  • Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on business initiatives and procurement strategies.
  • Developing relationships with senior leadership.
  • Providing subject matter expertise on complex purchasing, legal, and contractual issues.
  • Performing supplier relationship management and reviews.
Preferred Skills and Experience:

Experience is helpful in the areas such as IT, Professional Services (such as solution architecture, network design, integration, and deployment), Software, SaaS applications, and/or emerging technologies.

Strong experience managing complex strategic sourcing projects and RFx process.

Contract negotiations without much legal guidance.

Proven track record of identifying cost reduction opportunities and driving significant, tangible financial benefit to the business.

Ability to support large/complex supplier deals potentially including Software, and Services integrated solutions with customer flow-down requirements.

Ability to interact with and present up to Director/VP Levels.

Core analytic skills to independently dive into an unclear area and make sense of it. Financial modeling experience is an asset.

Any of the following certifications is a plus: Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM), Certified Purchasing Manager (CPM) from the Institute of Supply Chain Management (ISM), Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute.



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