Responsibilities
- Effectively influences LOBs, including senior leadership, to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment of sourcing strategies.
- Work with Line of Business (LOB) to develop, source and negotiate major contracts.
- Play a key role in Supplier Relationship Management / Scorecard process.
- Ability to develop, issue, and evaluate RFXs
- Vendor management
- Project Management and leading cross-functional teams
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of experience in supply chain
- 6 years of procurement experience preferred
- Contracts knowledge
- Sourcing life cycle management experience
- Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated cost savings
- Preferred certifications: (LSS) Lean Six Sigma Certification, (ISM) Institute for Supply Management or (CPSM) Certified Professional in Supply Management certification
- Ability to apply contract processes and procedures and relevant contracts and licensing - for example ESC, IBEW, tort, contract law - as needed to perform at the job level
- Ability to work independently with limited oversight
- Knowledge of database and information systems - for example SCADA, EMS, OMT, OIS, SAP, ERP, COSO, Teradata, COBIT, Question Mark - as needed to perform at the job level
Keywords: category leader, category manager