Category Management Specialist IV, (Sourcing)

About the position

This senior individual contributor position is responsible for developing category/spend strategies for key categories by leveraging extensive knowledge of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; building long-term relationships with key internal clients and suppliers; owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management; identifying and understanding key initiatives of internal clients and short, medium, and long-term goals; ensuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations; adopting change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive strategic programs; and interacting with leadership to review and drive decisions. This position is also responsible for leading the RFP process and/or supplier negotiations; developing and executing RFPs; leveraging analytics and insights to ensure data-driven decisions; analyzing category spend to understand price drivers and trends; applying cost and supply market analytics; and applying a digital mindset to adopt new technologies in the source to pay space.

Responsibilities

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers.
• Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses.
• Leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations.
• Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback.
• Demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions.
• Encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies.
• Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions.
• Provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate.
• Monitors progress and results.
• Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines.
• Identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines.
• Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams.
• Uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Develops category/spend strategies for key categories by leveraging extensive knowledge of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs.
• Drives clear, informed decisions based upon a multi-year strategy.
• Owns end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management.
• Keeps current on external and internal influences that may impact the larger organization.
• Interacts with leadership to review and drive decisions.
• Develops and maintains relationships with key internal clients and suppliers.
• Builds strong, collaborative relationships with internal clients across the business to gain buy-in and deliver value.
• Identifies and understands key initiatives of internal clients and short, medium, and long-term goals.
• Works with suppliers to identify and pursue opportunities to drive improved quality and delivery performance.
• Assures alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations to drive value, innovation, service/supply resiliency, quality of care and governance.
• Partners with cross-functional stakeholders to advance Category Management capabilities.
• Leads RFP process and/or supplier negotiations and facilitates contracting to deliver strategic value.
• Leverages appropriate negotiation strategies, tactics, and processes in line with situational demands.
• Leads contract negotiations in partnership with Legal.
• Develops and executes RFPs to drive the strategic sourcing process.
• Leverages analytics and insights to ensure data-driven decisions.
• Analyzes category spend to understand price drivers and trends.
• Applies cost and supply market analytics to create category strategies.
• Applies a digital mindset to adopt new technologies in the source to pay space.
• Adopts change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive the implementation and/or modification of new or existing strategic programs.
• Contributes to KPs Sustainability and Environmental goals and serves as an advocate to further advance results in Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP).