Category Manager - Truck Care

Love’s•Oklahoma City, OK

13d

About The Position

The Category Manager has an overall responsibility to drive commercial value and enhance Love’s competitive position through end-to-end category management activities within the assigned categories. This position will partner with stakeholder teams across the organization to manage supplier relationships, negotiate pricing and contracts, and develop and execute category sourcing strategies focused on minimizing total cost of ownership and maximizing service quality.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain management or a business-related field preferred.
5-8 years of Supply Chain, Finance, or Operations work experience
Understanding of category management and procurement strategies
Understand and function effectively in a team environment
Experience working with Truck Care/Truck Parts categories of spend
Effective, proven negotiation skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Enhanced understanding of data driven spend analytics and data visualization (Excel, Power BI, or similar)
Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Procure-to-Pay systems
Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office suite required, experience with large scale accounting systems strongly preferred.
Ability to learn new software applications and computer programs; ability to type efficiently and accurately; comfortable handling multiple interruptions and adjusting priorities throughout the workday while meeting deadlines; ability to communicate effectively (both orally and in writing) with diverse individuals and to consistently handle interpersonal situations in a professional and respectful manner; and excellent memory and organizational abilities.

Responsibilities

Enables Love’s to efficiently and effectively maximize the value they receive from suppliers
Ensures all legal documents are in place for each supplier, including NDA, Master Supplier Agreements, and Product Agreements
Leads and conducts the RFP process, bid analysis and review, contract negotiations, and blanket purchase agreement creation
Identify and realize cost-savings and cost-reduction opportunities
Use spend analysis to develop ideas for cost savings initiatives within assigned categories
Evaluate potential cost improvement opportunities, document with business case and champion change in support of department/company initiatives
Minimizes risk of supply disruption
Identifies supply and supplier issues. Analyzes market intelligence to assess root cause, improvement opportunities, and associated risk
Develops solutions and gains consensus to resolve supply issues
Builds strategic relationships
Builds relationships with supplier contacts and identifies candidate suppliers to be considered for strategic relationships
Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with Food Service team members and leadership to collectively identify business drivers, process improvements, and value creation opportunities
Understand company’s goals and build supplier relationships as needed to support those goals
Monitors purchasing performance
Monitors supplier quality and supplier performance and completes supplier scorecards