Job Description
Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Category Manager
Job Duration: 6+ months
Pay range: $50-$67.31 USD per hour
Work Type: Hybrid (Glen Mills, PA, 19342)
Overview/Responsibilities:
In this role you will negotiate with and manage vendors for on-site services for a production facility including: Gardening, Piping, waste management, canteen services and other services impacting the manufacturing site.
Qualifications:
Preferred:
Job Title: Senior Category Manager
Job Duration: 6+ months
Pay range: $50-$67.31 USD per hour
Work Type: Hybrid (Glen Mills, PA, 19342)
Overview/Responsibilities:
In this role you will negotiate with and manage vendors for on-site services for a production facility including: Gardening, Piping, waste management, canteen services and other services impacting the manufacturing site.
- Be accountable for managing $68M site services spend in Americas, reporting to the Director, Indirect & Logistics Procurement Americas.
- Manage and evolve a supplier base that offers optimal quality, service, technology, and value (QSTV), and lead efforts to qualify alternate or second source suppliers.
- Functionally supervise a sourcing specialist supporting the developed category strategy.
- Closely collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine current and future sourcing needs + develop and execute corresponding category strategies
- Identify and manage global projects in alignment with cross-functional internal stakeholders.
- Deliver significant cost savings and avoidances as well as continuous improvement plans.
- Negotiate and implement supply agreements that include ideal terms from a QSTV perspective.
- Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with key suppliers to advance supplier-supported company objectives, develop supplier capabilities, address gaps in supplier performance.
- In collaboration with the Business Units, Operations, Technology, and/or other functional stakeholders, develop and continuously evolve a cost savings/productivity plan for the category that includes a pipeline of new ideas, in-process projects, and projects accruing savings in support of exceeding annual productivity goals.
- Identify and execute TCO improvement opportunities.
- Effectively address all supplier performance failures via the root cause and corrective action process, successfully levying claims, and other tactics as appropriate.
- Create and maintain effective e-Sourcing events and catalogs to increase productivity.
- Monitor and resolve disconnects in the buy channel process in conjunction with the Procurement policy to improve overall compliance and actively managed spend.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Engineering. (Additional experience may be acceptable in lieu of degree).
- 5 or more years’ experience in Procurement/Category Management including On-Site Services
- Experienced using Procurement e-sourcing-tools.
- Experience partnering with senior-level leaders and stakeholders in a global, matrix organization.
- Experience with the source-to-contract Procurement process.
- Comfortable negotiating both internally and externally.
Preferred:
- Prior experience leading diverse, multi-functional teams in collaborative efforts.
- ARIBA experience preferred.
- Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving capability.
- Superior communication and good presentation skills.
- Self-motivated, service-oriented “Can do – Will do” mindset and attitude.
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Ability to travel up to 20%, including international travel.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | GLEN MILLS, PA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $50–$67.31 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 2,000 to 2,499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.lancesoft.com/ |
About Company
We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc).
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
Skills
- Analysis Skillsunmatched
- Aribaunmatched
- Business Operationsunmatched
- Category Developmentunmatched
- Category Managementunmatched
- Continuous Improvementunmatched
- Corrective Actionunmatched
- Cost Controlunmatched
- Cross-Functionalunmatched
- Economicsunmatched
- Exceeded Sales Goalunmatched
- Expense Managementunmatched
- Gardeningunmatched
- Leadershipunmatched
- Logisticsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Matrix Managementunmatched
- Negotiation Skillsunmatched
- On Site Supportunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Pipingunmatched
- Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
- Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
- Procurement Managementunmatched
- Productivity Managementunmatched
- Project/Program Managementunmatched
- Purchasing/Procurementunmatched
- Second Sourcingunmatched
- Strategic Planningunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Technical Operationsunmatched
- Total Cost of Ownershipunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Evaluationunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Managementunmatched
- Vendor/Supplier Sourcingunmatched
- Waste Managementunmatched
- Willing to Travelunmatched
- eSourcingunmatched
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