Global Indirect Sourcing Category Manager

Company Description

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives.

Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions.

We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

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Job Description

As the Category Manager, you will lead strategic sourcing activities for a variety of indirect categories including but not limited to IT, Marketing, Professional Services, etc.

You will work closely with global business / functional leaders across all of Fortune Brands to develop & implement sourcing strategies that would effectively reduce the total cost of ownership of category spend, leveraging world-class negotiation skills, tools, and processes.

You will lead the transformations in collaboration with our stakeholders of all impacted organizational functions.

This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based in our North Olmsted, OH, Maumee, OH, Oak Creek, WI, or Deerfield, IL offices.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Develop and execute effective sourcing and demand management strategies to reduce our Total Cost of Ownership of assigned indirect spend categories such as IT, Marketing and Professional Services.
• Partner with key stakeholders and senior leadership to understand strategic direction, business objectives, supply requirements, and priorities.
• Build and manage project pipeline of assigned categories through category expertise, stakeholder collaboration, and buy-in.
• Overall responsibility for developing, communicating, and implementing procurement strategies. Drive compliance.
• Achieve stakeholders’ business requirements leveraging best practices to effectively deliver value - cost reductions / avoidance, risk mitigation, process improvements, supplier consolidation, etc.
• Develop category management expertise and industry knowledge within the established portfolio set to provide insights that influence actionable outcomes.
• Implement the industry’s best practices through cross-functional engagement.
• Lead RFI / RFQ / RFP. Negotiate supplier agreements.
• Deliver savings and cost optimization

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• 5+ years of experience in Indirect Procurement driving savings & launching strategic sourcing initiatives in collaborations with diverse stakeholders.
• In-depth experience sourcing IT, Marketing and Professional Services.
• Exposure to best-in-class procurement practices including extensive end-to-end experience in Sourcing process, Spend Analysis, Supplier & Industry Analysis, RFx expertise, and contract negotiations.
• Able to travel domestically as needed.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

• A strategic thinker with attention to details.
• Strong communication, leadership and influencing skills.
• Self-directed.
• High level work ethics.
• A quick learner.

Additional Information

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs.

This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more.

We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets.

Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN