Category Manager-Procurement Lead
2 days ago
The Category Manager is a key role in the Washington Metro organization, responsible for all aspects of the assigned category. This includes mastering knowledge areas such as the category supply market, key vendors, and trends that affect the Authority's cost and access to the supply market. The employee ensures the efficiency measures of the assigned category and the effectiveness of managing that category.
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and implement the sourcing strategy for designated categories in line with the overall department sourcing strategy to increase productivity, identify cost savings opportunities, and optimize Authority-wide spend.
• Act as the subject matter advisor for assigned category, collaborating with management and other subject matter experts to develop category strategies, including supply markets, major vendors, and industry trends that may impact purchasing for the category.
• Provide collaborative category management plans to senior management, illustrating visibility on risks, total cost of ownership, key operational achievements, and measurable deliverables.
• Oversee and analyze competitive bid/proposal, contract development and negotiations, risk assessment and mitigation, as well as on-going strategic supplier relationships and performance management.
• Optimize internal processes, workflows, and interfaces to improve category-specific measures of productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
• Ensure that suppliers are managed effectively through initiatives such as strategic sourcing, performance monitoring against key performance indicators (KPIs), service level agreements (SLAs), benchmarking, contract management, and negotiation.
Requirements:
A Bachelor's Degree in business administration or a related field, with extensive advanced education and/or training in the areas of supply management, public procurement, and contract negotiation. Alternatively, four years of progressively responsible procurement administration and management experience in large public programs may be considered. A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible procurement administration and management experience in large public programs is required. Certification from an accredited procurement program, such as the National Contract Management Association (NCMA), Universal Public Procurement Certification Council (UPPCC), National Institute of Government Purchasing (NIGP), the Institute for Supply Management, the Federal Acquisition Institute (FAI), the Defense Acquisition University (DAU), or the Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative (DAWIA), is required within two (2) years of hire and must be maintained thereafter.
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