Job Description
As the Associate Category Manager with the Services Procurement team, you'll be responsible for category strategy development with a long-term commercial plan. This will include strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier and stakeholder relationship management across a subset of the Professional Services categories. Specifically, all manners of professional services from strategic management consulting to staff augmentation services for professional and technology roles. In this role, you'll consistently work with senior-level stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.
What you'll do
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process. For this role, you must be located within a drivable distance to our office in Richfield, Minnesota.
What you'll do
- Lead category management and strategic sourcing activities including but not limited to negotiations, RFx, spend reporting/analysis, industry research, and opportunity identification.
- Develop, present, and maintain category strategies for assigned areas of spend with the objective of determining opportunities within the categories and strategizing optimal sourcing methodologies.
- Create and nurture stakeholder relationships, ensuring ongoing partnership and engagement.
- Leverage expertise, tools, policies, and relationships to help educate and influence internal clients on sourcing recommendations to achieve optimal results.
- Manage supplier relationships for effective exchange of information, optimizing engagement value for Best Buy.
- Partner with colleagues in sourcing & procurement operations teams to ensure optimal executional results.
Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in procurement or demonstrated involvement in sourcing, negotiations, contracting, or supplier management.
- 1+ years of experience mentoring, cross-functional team management, and influencing without authority
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1966 |
| Website | http://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/ |
About Company
Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.
That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?
You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.
Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.
When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.
So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.
Skills
- Category Managementunmatched
- Contract Negotiationunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Expense Analysisunmatched
- Expense Reportsunmatched
- Management Consultingunmatched
- Management Strategyunmatched
- Mentoringunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Professional Servicesunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Sourcing Strategyunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)unmatched
- Team Lead/Managerunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Planningunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Relationsunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Selectionunmatched
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