Sr. Category Manager - Marketing and Advertising
Leverage technical expertise to create and implement strategic sourcing strategies for one or more categories of spend across multiple business units. Drive business value and mitigate risk in procurements through competitive bidding, negotiation of commercial and legal terms, and analysis of data and market trends. Collaborate with suppliers and internal business partners including Legal and business unit leadership to drive efficiencies, reduce risk and manage costs. Support the Business Units' Emergency Response activities as assigned.
Primary Duties
- Develop sourcing strategies and lead key sourcing initiatives. Participate in periodic special project initiatives. Accountable for category purchases (including tactical); become involved on an as-needed basis to resolve emergent issues.
- Maintain and own the position of primary contact for the resolution of systemic/recurring supplier/customer issues. Develop close working relationships with supplier and end customers. Monitor supplier performance to ensure that contract terms and conditions are being met or exceeded; and performance meets customer expectations. Manage and/or support supplier alliance process and own/manage all supplier relationships. Lead and/or support all supplier relationship development programs and suppler alliance periodic meetings.
- Lead personnel (both within and external to Supply) to achieve objectives across related categories and/or across multiple sourcing initiatives. Prioritize competing needs and assign tasks to support strategic sourcing initiatives and other Supply projects, as appropriate.
- Lead negotiations of commercial and legal terms with new and incumbent vendors to mitigate risk, increase value for internal customers, and provide flexibility to meet the organization needs
- Identify and implement sourcing and category management best practices. Understand, track and forecast market trends to maintain category knowledge and business acumen.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in business, engineering, science or related field with 4-7 years' experience
- Demonstrated project and change management skills.
- Demonstrated knowledge of category and supply management concepts.
- Adept and persuasive communicator (verbal, written).
- Cross functional/organizational team management and facilitation skills (internal and external).
- Demonstrated data analysis capability and MS Office applications expertise
- Demonstrated negotiation skills. Ability to hold Suppliers accountable for performance.
- Conflict management experience.
- Technical aptitude (category-specific requirement)
Preferred Qualifications
- Advertising & Marketing sourcing experience.
Benefits
- 401(k) match and annual company contribution
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Generous paid time off options, including vacation, sick time, floating and fixed holidays, maternity leave and bonding/primary caregiver leave or parental leave
- Employee Assistance Program and resources for mental and emotional support
- Wellbeing programs such as tuition reimbursement, adoption and surrogacy assistance and fitness reimbursement
- And much more
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