Category Management Consultant - Marketing and Annuities Business

Category Management Consultant

Full-Time

Boston, MA or Springfield, MA

The Opportunity

At MassMutual, we're passionate about helping millions of people find financial freedom and this passion has driven our approach to developing highly interactive digital experiences for our customers. As a Category Management Consultant , you will be responsible for managing supplier relationships, negotiating deals, facilitating sourcing events, and providing directed and independent analytical support for the assigned categories.

To help us achieve our mission, we are hiring a Category Management Consultant supporting our Marketing and Annuities Business to join our team.

The Team

Our ideal Category Management Consultant candidate will serve as a procurement subject matter expert for your category, partnering across the business and with other procurement functional areas including responsible sourcing, and procurement operations. A strong mix of analytic, strategic negotiation, creativity, strategic vision, and communication skills will ensure your success in this role.

The Impact

This role focuses on being a subject matter expert (SME) to assigned business groups. The Category Management Consultant partners with business leaders / internal procurement group to meet expectations to make sure that all purchases are smart, timely, cost-effective, and aligned with MassMutual Procurement policies.

• Drive key sourcing events and negotiations, leveraging the full suite of sourcing capabilities and market analysis
• Responsible for managing and negotiating deals for select supplier relationships in the organization
• Coordinate with Procurement, Contracting, Spend Analytics, Risk, Responsible Sourcing, Accounts Payable, Enterprise Risk Management, Enterprise Technology etc. to ensure an effective sourcing process and end-to-end supplier management approach
• Champion third party risk management process compliance
• Partner with Procurement to develop and execute supplier negotiations strategies to achieve the best value and least risk for MassMutual
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure key contracting elements, including service level agreement components and evaluation process are aligned and included in the draft contract before passing to Legal for review
• Lead supplier onboarding and offboarding activities, including, but not limited to, coordinating supplier training, granting system access and ensuring that the supplier is familiar with their main contacts within MassMutual
• Determine and lead appropriate supplier specific ongoing monitoring plan (operational business review meetings, executive oversight meetings, issue management reviews, performance monitoring, contract management reviews, risk management reviews etc.)

The Minimum Qualifications

The Ideal Qualifications

What to Expect as Part of MassMutual and the Team

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