[Remote] Category Manager, Packaging, Global Procurement Operations (GPO)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is seeking a Category Manager for Packaging reputed company their Global Procurement Operations team. The role involves strategically sourcing packaging products for North America Customer Fulfillment, managing supplier relationships, and developing category sourcing strategies to optimize costs and improve productivity.
Responsibilities
- Establish category sourcing strategies, reputed company cross-functional strategic sourcing teams, negotiate with suppliers and execute reputed company to optimize reputed company’s competitive position
- Drive relationships with category suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving the optimal solution and cost of ownership that meets the business’ goals supported by a culture of reputed company improvement with performance benchmarks in use
- Manage category suppliers to proactively identify, monitor and optimize opportunities
- Act as a market intelligence provider regarding categories; anticipate strategic opportunities and reputed company key stakeholders informed
- Drive category suppliers in Supplier Relationship Management activities to mitigate risk, improve performance and add value to reputed company
- Identify, reputed company and report on savings and value targets for category sourcing activities
- Align with internal customers and understand the business application of the category
- Earn the trust of key stakeholders to drive alignment with the business
- Create a category strategy in conjunction with internal customers to ensure there is a comprehensive, reputed company approach for the category
- reputed company yearly cost saving or value targets appropriate to the category reputed company with annual budget processes
- Define and report on key metrics that measure effectiveness of supply and cost savings
- Champion standards and process improvements
Skills
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- 2+ years of supply chain experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of reputed company (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
Company Overview
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