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Senior Category Manager

LanceSoft Inc

  • GLEN MILLS, PA
  • 30+ days ago
  • $50–$67.31 Per Hour

Highlights

In collaboration with the Business Units, Operations, Technology, and/or other functional stakeholders, develop and continuously evolve a cost savings/productivity plan for the category that includes a pipeline of new ideas, in-process projects, and projects accruing savings in support of exceeding annual productivity goals. In this role you will negotiate with and manage vendors for on-site services for a production facility including: Gardening, Piping, waste management, canteen services and other services impacting the manufacturing site.

Numbers & Facts

LocationGLEN MILLS, PA
IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
Salary$50–$67.31 Per Hour
Company Size2,000 to 2,499 employees
Year Founded2000
Websitehttp://www.lancesoft.com/

Description

Job Description:
 
Job Title:           Senior Category Manager
Job Duration:  6+ months
Pay range:        $50-$67.31 USD per hour
Work Type:      Hybrid (Glen Mills, PA, 19342)
 
Overview/Responsibilities:
 
In this role you will negotiate with and manage vendors for on-site services for a production facility including: Gardening, Piping, waste management, canteen services and other services impacting the manufacturing site.
 
  • Be accountable for managing $68M site services spend in Americas, reporting to the Director, Indirect & Logistics Procurement Americas.
  • Manage and evolve a supplier base that offers optimal quality, service, technology, and value (QSTV), and lead efforts to qualify alternate or second source suppliers.
  • Functionally supervise a sourcing specialist supporting the developed category strategy.
  • Closely collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine current and future sourcing needs + develop and execute corresponding category strategies
  • Identify and manage global projects in alignment with cross-functional internal stakeholders.
  • Deliver significant cost savings and avoidances as well as continuous improvement plans.
  • Negotiate and implement supply agreements that include ideal terms from a QSTV perspective.
  • Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with key suppliers to advance supplier-supported company objectives, develop supplier capabilities, address gaps in supplier performance.
  • In collaboration with the Business Units, Operations, Technology, and/or other functional stakeholders, develop and continuously evolve a cost savings/productivity plan for the category that includes a pipeline of new ideas, in-process projects, and projects accruing savings in support of exceeding annual productivity goals.
  • Identify and execute TCO improvement opportunities.
  • Effectively address all supplier performance failures via the root cause and corrective action process, successfully levying claims, and other tactics as appropriate.
  • Create and maintain effective e-Sourcing events and catalogs to increase productivity.
  • Monitor and resolve disconnects in the buy channel process in conjunction with the Procurement policy to improve overall compliance and actively managed spend.
 
Qualifications:
 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Engineering. (Additional experience may be acceptable in lieu of degree).
  • 5 or more years’ experience in Procurement/Category Management including On-Site Services
  • Experienced using Procurement e-sourcing-tools.
  • Experience partnering with senior-level leaders and stakeholders in a global, matrix organization.
  • Experience with the source-to-contract Procurement process.
  • Comfortable negotiating both internally and externally.
 
Preferred:
 
  • Prior experience leading diverse, multi-functional teams in collaborative efforts.
  • ARIBA experience preferred.
  • Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving capability.
  • Superior communication and good presentation skills.
  • Self-motivated, service-oriented “Can do – Will do” mindset and attitude.
  • Strong organizational and planning skills.
  • Ability to travel up to 20%, including international travel.

About Company

We are a $125 Million, NMSDC-certified Minority & Woman owned Workforce Solutions Company headquartered in the DC metro area with presence across US with global presence - Canada, Mexico, India, UK, Malaysia, Indonasia, Hongkong, Singapore, UAE. We are specialized in providing Workforce Solutions, SOW project delivery, Engineering Solutions, Creative Services. We currently support 100+ Fortune companies globally and across multiple industry segments. We are currently supporting several massive programs across industry segment nationally/globally (Intel, Ally, AMD, QUALCOMM, Morgan Stanley, Kraft/ Mondelez, MNP, Amdocs, Dell, SanDisk, Medtronic, Becton Dickinson, GE, Lockheed Martin, UTC, L-3 Communications, Caterpillar, BMW, Mercedes Benz, National Grid, Dominion, Energy Future Holdings, PSEG, 3M, Fidelity, Aetna, Humana, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Merck etc). 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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