About the position
The Senior Staff Category Management Specialist utilizes extensive supply chain, category management, strategic sourcing, and contracting knowledge and experience to implement Supplier Commercial Excellence for an assigned collection of categories. The role is Supply Chain's single point of contact and strategic lead for a given categories and supports the placement of Entergy's ~$4B third party spend into the appropriate supply markets. The position is responsible for the utilization of the standard Category Management process of Plan-Strategy-Source-Perform across assigned categories and will operate across multiple cross-functional teams to leverage end-to-end value for an assigned portfolio of spend. The senior staff specialist operates autonomously and in an advisory capacity providing oversight, support, guidance, and training in the technical and professional skills areas to other category management specialists. The role is recognized inside supply chain, and within Entergy, as a subject matter technical adviser on category management, strategic sourcing, contract strategy, methodology, analysis, and contract provisions. The primary objective of the role is to create value through the supply chain in terms of safety, cost, risk mitigation and enhanced supplier performance.
Responsibilities
- Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first.
- Utilize key tools, programs, and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors.
- Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.
- Perform storm role duties as assigned through the Storm Assignment Management System.
- Develop and execute category and subcategory strategies, checklist, manage spend and regularly track market trends.
- Systematic process to review commercial, process, technical, risk management and sustainability strategies for product categories and subcategories.
- Supplier management strategy in place, linked with supplier segment, category strategies, and VMOS, with business reviews to ensure supplier performance.
- Regularly review supplier portfolio based on price/performance and cost structure comparison.
- Recurrent effort to bundle purchasing and to forecast demand across departments/business units.
- Ability to influence and work across cross-functional teams and levels in the organization to optimize supply-chain, redesign-to cost and make-or-buy strategies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, accounting, engineering, or other related discipline.
- 3+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 6+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience.
- 5+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 8+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience.
- With a degree, 12+ years of category management, strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 16+ years of category management, strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience.
- Preferred: Certification from an industry accreditation organization such as CPSM, APICS, etc.
Nice-to-haves
- Minimum 2+ years' energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing.
- Minimum 6+ years' energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing.
