Category Manager III, Indirect Spend

External Crown Castle Careers • Houston, TX

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work. The Category Manager position is responsible for all spend analysis and strategic sourcing initiatives in their assigned category as determined by their supervisor. This includes the development and implementation of sourcing strategies and initiatives to drive significant improvement in cost, quality and availability in a manner consistent with Crown Castle values.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of five (5)+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Legal or related field
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Good financial acumen
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build and maintain trusting relationships
• Understanding of the data sets that can be pulled from the system for reporting purposes
• Ability to meet project deadlines and manage resources accordingly
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Strong organization and prioritization skills
• Strong customer service skills

Nice To Haves

• Telecom experience preferred
• Coupa experience preferred
• Managing Indirect categories such as temp labor, consulting services, utilities, facility services, travel, fleet, logistics, marketing, benefits, legal, software, and hardware

Responsibilities

• Support Supply Chain programs including supplier engagement as well as process improvements
• Lead spend, contract, and market analysis for Indirect categories with internal stakeholders
• Conduct RFX events, negotiate pricing, prepare bid analysis, present sourcing recommendations to leadership
• Manage, review, and negotiate all new and existing contracts (in conjunction with legal and enterprise security), suppliers, and deliver performance results
• Ensure compliance with company, legal, enterprise security and other requirements
• Oversee and manage supplier initiatives for continuous improvement
• Execute strategic sourcing strategies for the Indirect category
• Drive stakeholder alignment by communicating effectively with partners on key objectives
• Develop partnerships with all cross-functional areas including various Corporate Business functions, Legal, and Supply Chain
• Identify new opportunities and drive results in support of cost savings goals
• Drive risk management and business continuity planning with internal stakeholders
• Use Supply Chain best practices when developing and implementing process improvements or system controls
• Lead change management when establishing new sourcing programs and drive on-going evaluations to ensure savings, supply, and quality
• Utilize sourcing software to conduct sourcing events and implement contract agreements in accordance with Crown Castle policies.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare plans with highly company subsidized premiums and up to $2,000 annual company contribution to your Health Savings Account (HSA base plan for employee and dependents).
• Market-leading 401(k) plan, which includes up to 10% company contributions through our 5% match and 5% profit sharing program (based on employee contributions).
• New-child leave up to 8 weeks of 100% paid leave upon birth or legal adoption of a new child. Birth mothers are eligible for up to 8 weeks of additional 100% paid medical leave.
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year of eligible tuition and fees.
• Crown Castle scholarship program awarding up to $10,000 per recipient each year for eligible dependent children of employees and interns.
• Matching charitable contributions to qualified charitable organizations of up to $1,000 per year per teammate.
• Generous paid time-off for eligible full-time employees (minimum 18 days per year based on years of service).
• 10 company holidays plus 2 floating holiday.
• All offices provide free beverages and snacks.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior