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Associate Category Sourcing Manager
| Company | Medline |
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| Location | Northbrook, IL, USA |
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| Salary | $73840 – $107120 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Junior, Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least 2 years of sourcing experience.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Experience leading category strategies, supplier relationship management, sourcing initiatives.
- Experience negotiating with outside vendors, including negotiating contracts, prices and reconciling differences.
- Experienced in documenting procedures and internal controls.
- Experience analyzing and reporting data in order to identify issues, trends, or exceptions to drive improvement of results and find solutions.
- Experience controlling and coordinating concurrent projects, competing priorities and critical deadlines.
- Ability to work across multiple time zones and locations.
Responsibilities
- Manage direct spend categories to drive to best-cost, supply continuity and reducing risk.
- Negotiate favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers and vendor partners.
- Leader and owner of category management driving key vendor conversations.
- Manage $50M in spend across key medical and raw material categories.
- Provide strategic insights on Global and geopolitical changes impacting tariffs, raw materials and regulatory requirements.
- Be a product expert on all managed categories including raw material inputs, manufacturing techniques, key vendors.
- Manage and secure cost reductions by working with suppliers on price and potential product development.
- Review analysis from Global Sourcing Operations team on vendor and supplier price increases and net against rebates for total impact to the division, and develop negotiation tactics to mitigate all increases.
- Develop and execute a risk profile for each sourced country.
- Develop expertise in assigned product categories and cost inputs, focusing on understanding product requirements, manufacturing processes, and raw materials.
- Assist in the creation and implementation of a global sourcing strategy to drive vendor performance.
- Work collaboratively with Medline Shanghai, Supply Chain, Quality and Product Management teams to maintain and develop vendors and products to reduce supply risk and ensure a healthy supply chain.
- Manage activity for Medline part and vendors numbers.
- Assist the reorder buying group in addressing issues with problem suppliers when communication efforts have not led to resolution.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
