Senior Category Management Specialist (119138)

Job Title:Senior Category Management Specialist

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity:Entergy Services LLC

Please note:Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.

Note: This is a hybrid positon working at least 3 days a week in office and can be based out of our offices in New Orleans LA Jackson MS Little Rock AR or The Woodlands TX. The selected candidate if from outside the area will be expected to relocate to one of these metro assistance may be available for this posting.

Job Summary/Purpose

The Senior Staff Category Management Specialist utilizes extensive supply chain category management strategic sourcing and contracting knowledge and experience to implement Supplier Commercial Excellence for an assigned collection of categories. The role is Supply Chains single point of contact and strategic lead for a given categories and supports the placement of Entergys $4B third party spend into the appropriate supply markets. The position is responsible for the utilization of the standard Category Management process of PlanStrategySourcePerform across assigned categories and will operate across multiple crossfunctional teams to leverage endtoend value for an assigned portfolio of spend. The senior staff specialist operates autonomously and in an advisory capacity providing oversight support guidance and training in the technical and professional skills areas to other category management specialists. The role is recognized inside supply chain and within Entergy as a subject matter technical adviser on category management strategic sourcing contract strategy methodology analysis and contract provisions. The primary objective of the role is to create value through the supply chain in terms of safety cost risk mitigation and enhanced supplier performance.

Key interfaces for this position are internal business customers such as a business unit Tax Finance Risk Management Safety Human Resources Legal external suppliers and industry organizations. Within supply chain common interfaces for this role are Procurement Operations Capital Projects & Decommissioning and Warehousing and Inventory Management Safety and Supplier Diversity.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Safety/Human Performance:
  • Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first.
  • Utilize key tools programs and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors.
  • Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.
• Incident Response: Perform storm role duties as assigned through the Storm Assignment Management System.
• Category Strategy: Develop and execute category and subcategory strategies checklist manage spend and regularly track market trends Ability to work strategically and tactically to deliver positive business results.
• Category Processes: Systematic process to review commercial process technical risk management and sustainability strategies for product categories and subcategories.
• Supplier Management: Supplier management strategy in place linked with supplier segment category strategies and VMOS with business reviews to ensure supplier performance.
• Supplier Base: Supplier portfolio is regularly reviewed based on price/performance and cost structure comparison.
• Optimization: Recurrent effort to bundle purchasing and to forecast demand across departments/business units.
• Customer Engagement: Ability influence and work across Crossfunctional teams and levels in the organization to optimize supplychain redesignto cost and makeorbuy strategies.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

Bachelors degree in supply chain business accounting engineering or other related discipline.

Minimum experience required of the position

• Category Management Specialist III:
  • 3 years of category management strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree minimum 6 years of category management strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience.
  • Highly Preferred:Minimum 2 years energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing
• Senior Category Management Specialist:
  • 5 years of category management strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree minimum 8 years of category management strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience.
  • Highly Preferred:Minimum 2 years energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing
• Senior Staff Category Management Specialist:
  • With a degree 12 years of category management strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree minimum 16 years of category management strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience.
  • Highly Preferred: 6 years energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing

Minimum knowledge skills and abilities required of the position

Technical

• Deep understanding of Entergys business model and key interfaces across the business and supply chain.
• Masterful application of strategic and creative thinking to produce a range of solutions to problems anticipating changes in the business environment and making data driven decisions.
• Mastery and innovative solutions for category management processes; including supplier diversity safety metrics and tools; category strategies are used as exemplars across supply chain.
• Deep understanding of supplier relationship/vendor management principles and practices.
• Mastery in the application of preaward and postaward contract management processes; integrate business unit specific knowledge; identify and mitigate contractual risks to Entergy.
• Mastery in leading/coaching the development and implementation of sourcing strategies; strategies are used as exemplars across supply chain.
• Deep proficiency in understanding the capacity and cost structure of existing suppliers.
• Extensive knowledge in developing detailed RFx price breakdowns and deconstructing vendor pricing models to support financial analysis and bid comparison.
• Masterful ability to extract data and apply market intelligence to assess supply market status and evolution.
• Deep expertise in leading/coaching the development cost to serve for customers.
• Mastery in leading/coaching the implementation of clear strategies to develop supplier bases; strategies are used as exemplars across supply chain.
• Deep expertise in creating negotiation strategies and leading supplier negotiations that support operational excellence through safety price quality service and innovation; strategies are used as exemplars across supply chain.
• Extensive knowledge of business and supply chain operations; including enterprise purchase and payment processes; experience and knowledge of supply chain systems and processes.
• Deep influencing skills to promote effective demand planning across business units functions and supply chain (zerobased purchasing proactive purchase planning and hedging).

Professional

• Expertise to advise on the application of project management principles to ensure systematic thorough completion of assignments identifying critical pathways and risks to delivery.
• Mastery in the application of commercial skills and financial acumen to capital projects with the inclusion of key business drivers and impact to Entergy on outcomes.
• Capability to lead on the development of data/information analyses to assist the business in decision making; provide business insights and data trends through detailed reports.
• Ability to communicate autonomously with category management stakeholders including executive level delivering key messages concisely supported by relevant data influencing skills to develop best outcomes.
• Proficient at building extensive relationships and effective networks with all stakeholders.
• Deep understanding of change management relative to category management solutions for the business.
• Deep experience and knowledge to effectively manage the costs of the business; understand the impact of contract terms on Entergy cost structure.

Any certificates licenses etc. required of the position

Preferred: Certification from an industry accreditation organization such as CPSM APICS etc.

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Primary Location: LouisianaNew OrleansLouisiana : New Orleans
Arkansas : Little Rock
Mississippi : Jackson
Texas : The Woodlands
Job Function: Professional
FLSA Status: Professional
Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered
Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT
Number of Openings: 1
Req ID: 119138
Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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Additional Responsibilities:As a provider of essential services Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours to work in alternate locations and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms outages emergencies or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

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WORKING CONDITIONS:
As a provider of essential services Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours to work in alternate locations and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms outages emergencies or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.