Sr Manager – Procurement-Technology
| Company | GAP |
|---|---|
| Location | Ohio, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Senior |
Requirements
- 5-7 years of experience in Procurement for global company that has been primarily focused on category management and execution of assigned categories.
- Demonstrate a strategic mind-set and experience in category management.
- Significant experience driving long-term results through category strategies, leveraging in-depth market knowledge, collaboration and influencing at all levels of a global organization.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate and lead others in an ambiguous environment to achieve high levels of performance and deliver sustainable results to the organization.
- Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills.
- In-depth expertise in Category Management and related processes.
Responsibilities
- Accountable and oversee development and execution of procurement strategies for the Software categories.
- Responsible for achieving procurement savings (P&L, Capital and Non-P&L) targets for this category.
- Create and manage a multi-year pipeline of projects that will deliver value year over year.
- Actively promote a competitive bid culture for Software projects by applying advanced levers and strong shift in how the team works.
- Develop deep category strategies with the focus of category management expertise that translates into actionable multi-year sourcing strategies.
- Build and develop high-performing category management teams.
- Have a strong understanding and experience with using procurement technology (i.e. spend analytics, sourcing, eAuction, CLM).
- Develop and maintain in-depth spend analytics, category segmentation and supplier profiling to enable opportunity mining and category management.
- Analyze and leverage supplier spend data across segmented spend categories.
- Successfully partner across functions (Finance, Legal, Tech) and partner with senior internal stakeholders, external suppliers, and colleagues to drive results and facilitate complex change management across the enterprise.
- Balance speed, different priorities and urgency while proactively considering new alternatives and driving critical thinking to optimize results.
Preferred Qualifications
- Develop category knowledge and regularly leverage industry experts, associations, peers, and business partners to identify and benchmark best practices.