Global Category Manager

4 months ago


Raleigh, United States TEKsystems Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Apply your broad experience in the Procurement of Marketing/Events and Meetings while interacting with leadership and executive teams. The Finance team is looking for a Global Category Manager to join us in Raleigh, NC. In this role, you will work as part of the Global Procurement team, which is organized into major spend categories including IT & Telecom, Marketing, Business Services, HR Services, Global Workplace Solutions, and Travel. You’ll be responsible for engaging stakeholders, setting procurement strategies, leading strategic sourcing initiatives, negotiating contracts, and managing strategic supplier relationships related to Marketing Event purchases. As a Global Category Manager, your work will involve developing category management strategies and optimizing the purchase of goods and services for Marketing/Events and Group Meetings including Large Managed Events, Medium Size Events and Group Meetings. Your success will be measured against business metrics like savings, stakeholder satisfaction, contract management, and supplier management.

 

Primary Job Responsibilities:

  • Partner with stakeholders/budget owners on appropriate spending strategies.
  • Support stakeholders spend requirements and priorities by driving procurement initiatives.
  • Ensure key travel preferred suppliers and proper travel policies are used and leveraged.
  • Gain knowledge of supplier markets, supply risk levels, assess supplier capabilities, and help define/improve company's panel of suppliers (local, regional, global).
  • Select supplier sources by driving competitive sourcing activities.
  • Form contracts with selected suppliers to negotiate optimal terms & conditions.
  • Operationalize negotiated contracts and manage overall Group Meetings & Events program.
  • Define supplier performance indicators, build and communicate related dashboards, manage supplier performance for key suppliers via stakeholder feedback and performance-based metrics.
  • Ensure appropriate business controls are in place to reduce risk and protect the company.


Required Skills:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or related field is required; MBA candidates are preferred.
  • 5 to 10 years procurement experience in managing Marketing meetings, events and group meetings.
  • Has extensive experience developing and leading strategic sourcing initiatives for Marketing/Events related purchases.
  • Strong analytical skills in performing bid analysis, cost analysis, fair-value analysis, and scenario modeling.
  • Complex problem solving with development and implementation of creative solutions.
  • Solid experience with contract negotiations at senior levels.
  • Experience in building strong relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders and suppliers.
  • Successfully influenced a wide range of stakeholders.
  • Led multi-disciplined projects with minimal amount of supervision.
  • Experience presenting complex ideas to management in a simplified manner.
  • Customer service oriented, team-player attitude, with excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.

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