Manager- Category Management Lead

At Globe, our goal is to create a wonderful world for our people, business, and nation. By uniting people of passion who believe they can make a difference, we are confident that we can achieve this goal.

Job Description

Leads the category management team by defining a strategic approach to procurement, where the organization segments its spending on bought-in goods and services. The segmentation arranges goods and services in discrete groups depending on the functions of these goods and services.

• Owns the Sourcing Strategy for leverage, bottleneck, and routine
  
  
  

categories, works with Business Partner who owns the sourcing strategy

for Strategic categories to ensure that identified sourcing strategies are

aligned to business objectives/requirements;

• Gathers Business Needs with proponent/cross functional partner
  
  
  

(Short and long term volume projections in business and potential

opportunities)

• Penetrates and aligns business & operational needs
• Identifies linkages and leverages multiple suppliers, materials, supply
  
  
  

chains, and business units

• Business/Technical Liaison/Partner; sits on projects/business teams
• Overall responsible for the successful planning, execution, monitoring,
  
  
  

control and closure of the strategic sourcing project/initiatives

• The project manager of the adhoc team created to identify and
  
  
  

implement sourcing strategies supported by the sourcing support

services and supplier relationship support units , and Proponents

• Leads the RFP as the Project Manager in the execution of the
  
  
  

approved strategy

• Ensures approved strategy is executed based on committed timelines
• Conducts should cost and TCO analysis as input to sourcing
  
  
  

evaluation

• Business/Technical Liaison/Partner; sits on projects/business teams
• Bring innovation/new ideas to business/technical teams from
  
  
  

category/industry/supplier analysis reports

• Provides Industry/Market intelligence
• Builds Category Analysis
• Conducts Spend Analysis and benchmarking
• Analyzes results of Industry & Supplier Analysis provided by Supplier
  
  
  

Relationship Support

• Works with the Sourcing Support team to Develop RFP for Strategic sourcing
  
  
  

initiatives

• Works collaboratively across joint sourcing strategy leaders and
  
  
  

organizations

• Brings category & functional knowledge
• Works with proponent and Sourcing Support Team on RFP development
• Get approval from Strategy owner
• Owns the supplier relationship management process and works with the
  
  
  

Supplier Relationship Support Unit

• Continue to monitor effectiveness of strategy results vs. targets
• Reports regularly to Strategy owner and Management on results of
  
  
  

strategy vs targets

• Co‐owns Supplier Relationship Management with Strategy owner
• Provide inputs to Supplier Relationship Support during supplier
  
  
  

performance evaluation

• Establishes goals, milestones, and performance metrics for suppliers
• Builds appropriate supplier collaborative relationships in conjunction with
  
  
  

proponents

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