Category Lead - Intermediate - VF

eTeam Inc.

Columbus, OH

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JOB DETAILS

SALARY

$42.75–$62 Per Hour

SKILLS

Analysis Skills, Candidate Sourcing, Category Development, Category Management, Consensus Building Skills, Contract Negotiation, Cost Control, Cost Modeling, Cross-Functional, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Expense Management, Financial Analysis, Forecasting, Identify Issues, Leadership, Market Analysis, Market Tracking, Negotiation Skills, Performance Analysis, Performance Management, Performance Metrics, Project Tracking, Project/Program Management, Quality Management, Requirements Management, Sourcing Strategy, Strategic Planning, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Supply Chain, Team Lead/Manager, Team Player, Time Management, Total Cost of Ownership, Vendor/Supplier Diversity, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation, Vendor/Supplier Management, Vendor/Supplier Relations

LOCATION

Columbus, OH

POSTED

1 day ago

Title: Category Lead
Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)
Duration: 12 months

Required Qualifications for Position:
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent work related experience
• Proven track record to deliver results and achieve goals
• Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships with others
• Experience leading cross-functional teams
• Ability to build support and consensus
• Proven financial acumen and analytical abilities

Responsibilities:
The Category Lead is responsible for helping drive value through the strategic sourcing and the supplier relationship management processes by independently leading and managing multiple strategic enterprise sourcing initiatives. The applicant must be highly analytical and self-driven with a proven ability leverage their category expertise to negotiate contractual agreements, collect and analyze data, build out cost models, draw conclusions, present findings to drive decisions, and track and manage supplier performance metrics. The Category Lead must possess an ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment and still meet business performance measures, including timelines for sourcing and contracting activities and planning for future sourcing needs of the business units. The Category Lead reports to the Manager, Category Management.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
• Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross functional category management teams to develop and maintain category plans and ongoing category performance
-Manage category-related projects from initiation through implementation, applying project management principles to deliver results on time and within scope.
• Developing deep knowledge and experience within assigned spend management responsibilities
• Developing spend/performance and external market analyses to monitor category performance and identify performance improvement opportunities
• Developing spend and savings/performance improvement forecasts to monitor progress and ensure goals are achieved
• Developing plans to capture identified opportunities
• Defining category requirements through collaborative efforts with respective stakeholder groups
• Collaborating with stakeholder groups to develop consensus on the appropriate category plans and priorities
• Leading performance improvement initiatives defined by the category plan including strategic sourcing and other performance improvement initiatives
• Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross functional strategic sourcing/performance improvement teams as needed/prescribed by category plans to achieve savings and performance targets (e.g. reduce cost, improve quality and result in a lower total cost of ownership, meeting supplier diversity goals)
• Leading negotiations with suppliers as needed
• Maintaining critical supplier agreements including renewals, negotiation of terms, issue identification, tracking and resolution

• Supplier Management responsibilities include:
o Developing and maintaining supplier criticality ratings and managing resulting critical supplier relationships
o Managing supplier relationships including conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with critical suppliers and Executive Sponsors

• Stakeholder Management responsibilities include:
o Developing successful partnerships with key stakeholders / business partners to achieve desired results
o Developing and managing cross-functional category management and strategic sourcing teams as needed
o Collaborating with stakeholders to drive needed decisions to achieve desired results

Preferred Additional Qualifications for Position:
• Experience managing large supplier agreements
• Experience working in a Shared Services organization
• Supply Chain experience in the utility industry
• Knowledgeable in category management and strategic sourcing practices

About the Company

eTeam Inc.

Looking for a great job? Join eTeam. We’re looking for talented staffing professionals to join our staff. We also provide contract assignments and full-time jobs at Fortune 2000 Companies. We’ve been named one of the best companies to work for by Staffing Industry Analysts and New Jersey Business.

COMPANY SIZE

100 to 499 employees

INDUSTRY

Other/Not Classified

FOUNDED

1998

WEBSITE

www.eteaminc.com

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