Category Lead - Senior - Artech LLC
Valparaiso, IN 46383
About the Job
Job Title: Category Lead - Senior
Duration: 12+ Months
Location: Valparaiso, IN
Skills:
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Preferred:
Thanks, and Regards
Leela G
Leela.G@artech.com
Morristown, NJ
Duration: 12+ Months
Location: Valparaiso, IN
Skills:
- Contracting experience – 7-10 years
- Intermediate to senior level
- RFP – 7-10 years
- Bidding & negotiations experience
- Direct Experience, non-IT
- Construction experience, large projects
Responsibilities:
- Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross functional category management teams to develop and maintain category plans and ongoing category performance .
- Developing deep knowledge and experience within assigned spend management responsibilities.
- Developing spend/performance and external market analyses to monitor category performance and identify performance improvement opportunities.
- Developing spend and savings/performance improvement forecasts to monitor progress and ensure goals are achieved .
- Developing plans to capture identified opportunities .
- Defining category requirements through collaborative efforts with respective stakeholder groups
- Collaborating with stakeholder groups to develop consensus on the appropriate category plans and priorities.
- Leading performance improvement initiatives defined by the category plan including strategic sourcing and other performance improvement initiatives.
- Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross functional strategic sourcing/performance improvement teams as needed/prescribed by category plans to achieve savings and performance targets (e.g. reduce cost, improve quality and result in a lower total cost of ownership, meeting supplier diversity goals)
- Leading negotiations with suppliers as needed .
- Maintaining critical supplier agreements including renewals, negotiation of terms, issue identification, tracking and resolution Supplier Management responsibilities include:
- Developing and maintaining supplier criticality ratings and managing resulting critical supplier relationships
- Managing supplier relationships including conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with critical suppliers and NiSource Executive Sponsors Stakeholder Management responsibilities include:
- Developing successful partnerships with key stakeholders / business partners to achieve desired results.
- Developing and managing cross-functional category management and strategic sourcing teams as needed
- Collaborating with stakeholders to drive needed decisions to achieve desired results.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent work-related experience
- Proven track record to deliver results and achieve goals.
- Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships with others.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams .
- Ability to build support and consensus .
- Proven financial acumen and analytical abilities .
Preferred:
- MBA
- Certified Procurement Manager (CPM) Three years of leadership experience
- Experience managing large supplier agreements.
- Experience working in a Shared Services organization .
- Supply Chain experience in the utility industry.
- Knowledgeable in category management and strategic sourcing practices
Thanks, and Regards
Leela G
Leela.G@artech.com
Morristown, NJ
Source : Artech LLC