(Fleet) Senior Sourcing Category Manager

Fleet Senior Sourcing Category Manager

The Senior Sourcing / Category Manager, Fleet holds a pivotal role in driving comprehensive category leadership. This entails the crucial task of defining and articulating a cohesive Sourcing strategy for the fleet category, fostering, and expanding strategic partnerships with suppliers, and delivering strategic financial and operational value throughout the organization. You will work closely with our Fleet Solutions, System and Maintenance teams to develop and implement category strategies that align the stakeholder's business requirements for fleet management and maintenance services, repair parts, fuel, and capital asset categories, drive strategic sourcing activities, negotiate procurement agreements, manage supplier relationships. This position is instrumental in several critical business processes and necessitates extensive cross-functional collaboration with teams and regions. Moreover, it carries the responsibility of overseeing a significant annual spend of at least $150 million, with expectations of substantial growth in line with the organization's growth plans.

Responsibilities

• Own overall strategy for specific product category(s), including supplier relationships, supplier performance management (QBR), supplier sourcing strategies, and new product introductions.
• Develop and deliver long term sourcing strategies, lead key initiatives with cross-functional teams; drive the decision-making process of the category roadmap with leadership.
• Drive commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance.
• Lead supplier performance management business reviews to highlight best practices and opportunities, including improving sustainability & social responsibility.
• Manage end-to-end RFI / RFQ / RFP process in partnership with key stakeholders to increase operational efficiencies, identify and partner with the best suppliers, and maximize value creation for the company.
• Drive end-to-end contract negotiations to achieve favorable contract terms and agreements to eliminate or minimize risk exposure and enforce supplier accountability.
• Analyzing contract documents to determine contractual obligations, preparing recommendations regarding acceptance or modifications.
• Ability to analyze data, draw reasonable conclusions, make recommendations and to communicate analysis to all levels of the organization.
• Develop reporting frameworks and tools to effectively communicate sourcing status, supplier performance, value creation (i.e., savings), to applicable cross-functional stakeholders.
• Understand and follow relevant market trends impactful to business. Identify product expansion and new product introduction opportunities.
• Coordinate and collaborate with local teams to deploy and manage the implementation of your defined strategies.

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