Our Client is a global corporation that is setting up a centralized regional procurement function in Poland for indirect materials and services.

We apologize, but the recruitment process is highly confidential and at this stage  we are not able to share more information.

Position goal:

As a global Category Manager you set and execute category strategies enabling an efficient utilization of vendors  across all category purchases. Professional Services is a diverse and young category requiring an experienced profile to set the right direction across the many transformational sourcing opportunities lying ahead. It is likewise a category with considerable executive management attention requiring strong business partnering skills and an ability to implement change in a category impacting our Client’s employees broadly.

Reporting line:  Senior Strategic Sourcing Director

Subcategories examples: consultancy, legal services and HR services

Spend: c.a 140 Mio Euro

Scope: Europe, USA, NA

Key Responsibilities:

In this newly set global role you will be mostly responsible for:

• identification and development global, regional and local category and sub-category strategies closely aligned to overall procurement strategy and key stakeholder priorities
• development and maintaining prioritized project portfolio
• enabling strategic alignment across sourcing activities by understanding priorities and providing market/sourcing knowledge to challenge existing setups and procedures, in order to build optimized supplier setups
• building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships enabling category progress and compliance
• executing global, regional and local category and sub-category strategies closely aligned to overall procurement strategy and key stakeholder priorities
• facilitating professional sourcing processes from point of need identification through to contract signing and efficient implementation
• ensuring relevant and efficient management of the supplier relation all the way through sourcing project management and execution to contract utilization and continued supplier management
• establishing strategic preferred/exclusive supplier governance committees and/or teams and acting as 2nd level escalation in supplier issues/non-performance including management of the negotiations through to mutual acceptable solutions
• delegating category tasks and activities to Category Buyer and continuously supporting with category insights
• leading and/or participating in internal cross-category improvement projects and/or training initiatives to develop individuals and/or the function overall.
• driving collaboration with Regional Category Manager(s) to ensure proper deployment of category strategies and opportunities.
   

Qualifications:

• a Master Degree from a Business School or University, preferably certification demonstrating completed training within core disciplines: category management, project management, advanced negotiations
• category management experience derived from several years of working as a regional or global category manager/owner within professional services and/or consultancy
• extensive knowledge of best-practice category management within this field and has a proven track record of defined and executed category strategy
• regional/global stakeholder management experience established through extensive and successful collaboration with senior stakeholders across Europe/globally
• ability to exemplify collaboration skills and cultural aptitude through strategic sourcing projects and/or category opportunities managed and successfully completed in close collaboration with international senior stakeholders
• business partnering skills built on a profound understanding of line of business priorities within own subcategories
• extensive experience negotiating commercial and legal terms and conditions and fronting complex negotiations
• considerable experience and knowledge of working with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Return on Investment (ROI) and identifying levers beyond monetary savings
• good understanding of standard legal clauses and associated risks
• experienced project manager with a strong track record of successfully completed strategic sourcing projects according to category management methodology delivering strong outcomes
• experience working in a matrix team efficiently delegating tasks and coordinating priorities between team members
• a category level understanding of internal interdependencies (e.g. legal, Finance, QA) impacting speed and quality of project execution and outcome. An expert ability to navigate these interdependencies efficiently
• collaborative and strategic mindset

Why to apply? : very interesting position to join fairly mature global procurement organization and introduce and execute global category strategy.  It is a great opportunity for an for an open minded  and pro active procurement professional  with in depth business acumen and ability to drive and execute change with customer orientation in mind.

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If you wish to apply, than send us your CV in English to: agnieszkapiatkowska@e-bigfish.com

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