Category Manager, Indirect Goods & Services, Facilities Services

Senior Category Manager, Indirect Goods & Services Facilities Services

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The Senior Category Manager, Indirect Goods & Services, Facilities Services is responsible for the coordination and development of category plans, strategies, vision, process efficiency, strategic sourcing initiatives and tactics within the Facilities Services category. Overall spending responsibility will be approximately $100M and savings targets will be set annually by the global procurement organization. The Senior Category Manager will interact with key business stakeholders to assist in driving category specific strategies to support those business objectives. Will also be responsible to manage and coordinate the supplier relationship and performance evaluation process for the responsible categories.

Under the direction of the Director of Indirect Goods & Services, Global Procurement, this role will create a Facilities Services model. Within this model, the Senior Category Manager will manage the identification, implementation and alignment of sourcing strategies and supplier capabilities for various categories of spend. Develop and manage strategic business relationships and gain a comprehensive understanding of business requirements to ensure stakeholder objectives are in alignment with sourcing strategies. Identify metrics, tools, and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities and efficiencies and work collaboratively with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Ensure compliance with company and division-wide purchasing / procurement strategies, policies, standards, and practices.
• Stakeholder Management : Effectively document, communicate, and gain support for the strategies from local executive leadership, and global procurement organization. Provides analysis and recommendations to management on financial decisions surrounding sourcing issues. Prepare supplier recommendations for decision-making, including global procurement and Executive Committee recommendations.
• Category Strategy / Sourcing Plan : Develops short-term and long-term category specific strategies that align with the Company goals for reducing costs and meeting financial expectations, while managing supplier relationships. Drive consolidation of spend and seek out synergies across all sites where applicable, by forming and leading cross-functional strategic sourcing teams to develop and implement category / commodity strategies and to drive cost from individual spend sub-categories; consults with Sr. Management, and other subject matter experts to develop alternative solutions; advises on options, risks, total cost of ownership, and business impacts.
• Project Management : Executes category sourcing strategies including development and execution of RFI's and RFP's, documents bid events through correspondence to suppliers; develops selection criteria and drives the selection and approval process of suppliers in collaboration with cross-functional teams; conducts supplier negotiations and ongoing supplier management. Develop negotiation strategies, gain alignment from stakeholders, lead cross-functional, category-based negotiation teams, and implement appropriate supplier risk analysis. Actively seeks ways to streamline business processes; researches and provides information on industry category trends and best practices. Provide procurement input to maximize procurement leverage, optimize project design and minimize project durations and cost. Researches the market for new and alternative ideas, suppliers, processes, and products to improve efficiency and profitability. Analyzes marketing information and production assumptions, forecast plans for anticipated materials requirements. Evaluates and selects suppliers, including foreign sourcing.
• Contract Management / Metrics : Manage contracts, contract negotiation, and contractual dispute resolutions. Pre-negotiate and incorporate terms, conditions, key performance indicators, and service level metrics into supplier contracts. Participate in negotiations of major contracts and blanket purchase agreements with critical suppliers for goods and services, together with the Law Department and business areas.
• Trusted Advisor : Ensure business process efficiency, and process improvement in line with Procurement strategy to empower the business as strategic partners.
• Supplier Relationship Management : Interacts with stakeholders to develop, engage, and lead supplier relationships for extracting the greatest value in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, enhanced service levels, risk management, sustainability, and innovation. Manage the ongoing performance of our suppliers including objective setting and supplier evaluations where warranted. Establish and lead effective network with suppliers and internal customers. Manages ongoing relationships with key strategic suppliers and the manufacturing and headquarters sites. Works with suppliers to continuously improve the value of goods and services provided with added focus on quality, responsiveness, and delivery. Ensure continuity of supply of purchased goods and services.

Desired Minimum Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and / or ability required for this position.

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Additional Information : This is a hybrid role, and the ideal candidate will be based out of Princeton, NJ. The hybrid schedule requires in-office presence on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely on Mondays and Fridays.