Sr Manager, Category

Ingram Micro • Buffalo, NY

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About The Position

Accelerate your career. Join the organization that's driving the world's technology and shape the future. Ingram Micro is a leading technology company for the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to business-to-business technology experts. Our market reach, diverse solutions and services portfolio, and digital platform Ingram Micro Xvantage™ set us apart. Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com Come join our team where you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. Let’s shape tomorrow - it’ll be a fun journey! Primary Focus: Leads and develops the platform level team within a category. Manages and executes against the strategic priorities and vision for the entire catalog portfolio, while driving focused growth and profitability for their portfolio of vendors. Advocate a clear vision of the strategy of category and platform engagement models and provide clear direction with internal stakeholders how to approach and achieve them in the long term.

Requirements

• Able to operate in a fast paced, continuously changing growth environment, with the ability to deliver complex solutions in a platform environment to our customers.
• P&L Management and financial acumen within a category group.
• Collaboration & inspirational leadership capabilities driving vision and accountability to teams.
• Experienced at working in or with a matrixed and collaborative organization.
• Deep understanding of the technology channel ecosystem, and market drivers for the respective technology category.
• Will generally have assumed at least the Senior Professional level of experience before becoming a manager.
• Regularly applies expertise in day-to-day activities.
• May fill the role of a staff member in complex situations.
• Requires a four-year college degree (or additional relevant experience in a related field).
• Minimum 5 years functional experience including a minimum of 4 years of position specific experience and 2 years of supervisory experience or 4 years of leadership experience.
• Four-year college degree (or additional relevant experience in a related field).
• Minimum ten years functional experience including a minimum of five years position specific experience.
• Ability to make significant contributions to the company.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop team focused on the customer experience.
• Develop business strategies within their category, to maximize the Xvantage experience for our vendor, customer and associates driving growth and profitability of multi-vendor solutions of the active customer base.
• Leverage data and insights to develop and evolve core focus areas of the category and maximize value creation for our customers.
• Monitor external market developments and competitive activity as key input to strategy creation.
• Attract, lead, inspire and develop employees, ensuring business continuity and talent growth.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for each vendor within category to monitor their performance.
• Utilize Xvantage capabilities to set appropriate KPI's.
• Foster positive and long-lasting relationships with vendors to promote collaboration and innovation.
• Collaborate with finance teams to develop and manage overall P&L of vendor category.

Benefits

• U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees