Category Manager

Job Description
Locations:
Florham Park, NJ;
Irvine, CA;
North Chicago, IL;
South San Francisco, CA
Leads category sourcing initiative teams that encompass local, domestic and/or international purchasing organizations. This position is responsible for establishing, articulating, and implementing sourcing strategies for individual spend categories, capital projects, supplier networks and / or geographic regions. This position may be responsible for obtaining program buy-in from various stakeholder organizations. The incumbent shall create and manage the project plan, identify the resources to support projects, drive projects through a sourcing process and ensure end results meet the requirements of all organizations impacted. This position requires a proactive approach that is:
relationship orientated, customer focused and team orientated, analytical, creative, dynamic, and demonstrative of continuous improvement.
- Conceive, initiate, develop, communicate, and manage the execution of purchasing strategies
- Delivers successful cross-divisional sourcing projects that yield benefits to the corporation
- Skilled approach to execution of the negotiation process including usage of information, best-of-breed practice and deal closure
- Communicates with management and stakeholder groups affected by the teams sourcing decisions
- Initiates and cultivates open, honest and beneficial relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
- Takes initiative to resolve conflicts constructively
- Uses analytical abilities to gather, analyze and establish spend baselines
- Timely execution of an established sourcing process for all projects
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