Category Management Specialist Jobs

Job Title: Sr Manager, Category Management

Company: Rose International

Location: NCAL, SCAL, KPWA, MAS, GA, CO, PNW, HI

Duration: 2 years (job may require travel up to 20% of the time)

Education: Bachelors Required

Job Summary

Responsible for leading end to end spend management for assigned categories to drive value, service, quality and innovation for KP. The work includes category strategy development in line with stakeholder goals, execution of bids, negotiations, contract negotiations and managing internal/external relationships. Also, support supplier performance management through contracts and ongoing participation. Provide industry expertise to drive strategic initiatives and impact change across the organization.

Essential Responsibilities

• Category Management/Strategic Sourcing: Develop category/spend strategies for all key categories with an extensive knowledge of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs. Drive clear, informed decisions based upon a multi-year strategy. Owns end to end delivery of business needs for the categories under management.

• Client & Supplier Relationship management: Work closely with key customers, identify and understand their key initiatives. Identify and understand their short, medium, and long-term goals. Work with the suppliers to identify and pursue opportunities to drive interventions in line with client expectations to drive value, innovation, service/supply resiliency, quality of care and governance.

• Negotiations/Bids/Contract management: Proven track record leading commercial negotiations or bids to deliver value. Have strategic approach to the process. Able to lead negotiation of contracts in partnership with legal.

• Analytics and Digital mindset: Demonstrated track record of leveraging analytics and insights in driving decisions. Have a digital mindset to adopt new technologies in the source to pay space.

• Communication: Required to interact with senior leadership frequently to review and drive decisions. Required to have exceptional verbal and written communication and coaching skills.

• People development: Invest in self-development for category management/supply chain skills via KP’ Category Management training program.

• Citizenship - Contribute to KP’s Sustainability and Environmental goals; in addition, responsible to help KP to further advance results in the EPP (Environmentally Preferable Purchasing).

• Change Management - Adopting change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to implement programs like Source to Pay transformation, Category Management training program.

• Additional detailed responsibilities/functions to support above: Stay current on external and internal influences that may impact the larger organization, including Healthcare Reform, macroeconomic issues, etc. Collaborate with other Portfolio Leads, Sourcing, Procurement Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and SRM COE Teams to advance Category Management capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Education:

· Bachelor''s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Management Science, Business, Finance, Accounting, contract administration, procurement or a related field required.

· High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

Basic Qualifications:

· 3-6 years’ experience in category management required.

Additional Requirements:

· Experience Source to Pay transformation projects.

Licenses and Certifications:

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications (For each role - a defined number of the following preferred qualifications may apply: years of job experience, education or degree, license, certification, registration or designation, knowledge, skills and abilities).

• MBA, Master''s in supply chain operations or relevant field

• • Experience in CPG, Retail or Healthcare companies