Supply Chain Management- Category Manager

General Dynamics • Amelia Court House, VA

4d • Remote

About The Position

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT: GDIT is seeking a Supply Chain Category Manager to be responsible for developing innovative strategies for the indirect and direct IT Network/Telecom spend category. This role will report to the Sr. Manager of Category Management and will work closely with stakeholders and the Managers and staff of Strategic Sourcing and Procurement to ensure strategies are fully understood, executed as designed, and adjusted as additional market knowledge is gained through sourcing activities and monitoring supplier performance. The primary role of this position is to create, socialize, and update category strategies across the network and telecom category (to include but not limited to wireless and wire lines, telecommunications equipment, switches, routers, transceivers, firewalls., etc.) and communicate the strategies to those persons and groups responsible for implementing the strategy. Category strategies focus on maximizing the value obtained from each supply market balancing competing demands including state and federal regulatory requirements imposed upon GDIT by its customers, such as the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR); the market strength of GDIT; and the realities of supply markets. This position requires understanding of the commodity category, as well as large-scale hardware OEMs such as Juniper, HP/Aruba, Verizon, AT&T, Cisco, etc.; strong research skills; high interest in continued learnings; being well organized, proactive, and able to work without much guidance; and exceptional time management skills. We are GDIT. The people supporting and securing some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. GDIT is your place. You make it your own by embracing autonomy, seizing opportunity, and being trusted to deliver your best every day. This position will be responsible for developing innovative strategies for indirect and direct IT hardware spend category.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science or 4+ years of equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of corporate, commercial, or FAR regulated supply chain experience (experience in a Fortune 500 company, government contractor, or federal government).
• US Citizenship: Performs work on contracts that require US citizenship
• Demonstrated understanding of FAR And its compliance requirements and audit implications on category strategies.
• Experience managing complex project and influencing persons not in one's chain of authority
• Experience in written/oral communications at all levels of the company (including C-level / Executive)
• Demonstrated knowledge of full lifecycle SCM-related topic areas (including strategic sourcing, contract types, bid sheet structures, proposal analyses, and contract negotiations

Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed supply market research
• Establish and leverage relationships with large-scale hardware OEMs
• Work closely with internal departments and customer-facing programs to understand, document, and analyze current and forecasted category demands
• Develop strategies for gaining the best value from current and future supply markets.
• Regularly evaluate category and adjust strategies as appropriate based on changing market conditions, internal demand, supplier performance, and other factors
• Ensure Category Strategies balance the various regulatory requirements imposed upon GDIT Supply Chain by its customers, including the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR); the market strength of GDIT; and the realities in the various markets to maximize value obtained from each supplier.
• Solve process, supplier performance and market-disruption problems including developing solutions under tight timeframes.

Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
• Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.
• The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

What This Job Offers

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