Category Manager, Procurement Specialist
3 days ago
Sleep Number is a sleep wellness technology leader, guided by our purpose to improve the health and wellbeing of society through higher quality sleep.
The Senior Category Manager will be responsible for creating, owning, and maintaining a long-term and short-term supply category strategy grounded in detailed market and supplier data analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Influence the business and translate business strategy from a supply chain and procurement perspective to ensure implementation of key projects impacting category strategy are completed successfully.
- Drive Total Cost of Ownership reductions for category including optimization of supply network (Tier 2 and 3 suppliers), cost models, and implementation of category and supplier strategies.
- Proactively identify opportunities to drive efficiencies/process improvements, cost reductions and new business opportunities within categories and technologies.
- Provide insight to the business unit on how to best develop and leverage supplier capabilities for the organization.
- Identify and elevate areas of highest risk within the category and lead multi-functional teams to develop actionable risk mitigation strategies.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
- ~10 + years combined experience within Procurement, Supply Chain management, technical experience in related category, and/or related buy/sell experience such as legal and sales.
- ~ Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) including executive communication.
- Excellent interdisciplinary, intercultural, and networking skills.
- Ability to remain flexible and adjust to new demands and respond with a sense of urgency.
Sleep Number offers a hybrid work environment providing the flexibility and balance of a blend of remote work and onsite collaboration in the office at Sleep Number's corporate Headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We are committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people and prohibit discrimination based on race, color, marital status, religion, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), sexual orientation, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran status, uniformed servicemember status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
It is Sleep Number's policy to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities during the application process, consistent with applicable law.
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