Senior Category Manager

Position Overview

The Senior Category Manager is responsible for managing a spend portfolio to develop & regularly maintain/up-dates short- mid- and long-term category strategy regionally linking this strategy with overall business strategy/objectives in alignment with departmental stakeholders (C-suite) as well as leading direct reports and coordinating with global Procurement teams for alignment and projects. Has and/or forges key strategic relationships with (strategic) suppliers/industry leaders and develops those relationships on behalf of the company being mindful of long-term mutually beneficial and ethical objectives as well as providing the business with access to supplier innovation. The Senior Category Manager leads key strategic procurement projects and provides expert advice and guidance to the C-level community and business stakeholders across all ENCORE. The Senior Category manager is an ambassador of best practice usage of available technology (e-sourcing) innovation and initiatives through the company and across the stakeholder community and optimizes the cost and quality of our services. This role reports to the Senior Director of Procurement.

Key Job Responsibilities

Sourcing

Responsible for conducting and overseeing the build out of RFPs negotiations contracting and ongoing supplier value management for continuous improvement.

Lead workstreams to understand and leverage current and future business requirements market intelligence and historical spend to develop innovative category strategies that drive cost reduction enterprise consistency and business value.

Category Management

Responsible for establishing category metrics and savings targets monitor performance and communicate these to stakeholders.

Create a category specific initiative pipeline that will forecast and direct procurement projects and sourcing activities for direct reports.

Implement the category strategy by directing sourcing activities and demand initiatives.

Develop and lead cross functional teams to execute on strategy.

Maintain expertise in the spend category through relationships with direct reports sourcing teams business units suppliers market experts and global/regional liaisons.

Know and apply value chain and value stream concepts.

Deliver financial targets in line with business expectations.

Drive the category opportunity agenda and self-sufficiently identifies agrees and executes these projects.

Organizational Leadership

Identify business enablement opportunities and provide category related insights and recommendations.

Provide commodity knowledge to internal clients on industry trends benchmarking and best practices.

Build and maintain collaborative relationships with Sourcing Teams Line of Business Leaders key stakeholders and suppliers.

Act as prime negotiator with suppliers relative to pricing terms quality and service.

Share ownership and accountability for driving and delivering results through agreed upon strategies.

Ensure strategies remain in alignment with business goals over time.

Accountable for driving communication and reporting to keep internal clients informed of progress and benefits.

Work with internal risk and compliance groups to ensure category strategies account for relevant laws regulations and risk policies.

Lead and develop direct reports identify opportunities and execute against agreed upon strategies.

Support the Senior Director of Procurement SVP and Operations in achieving positive EBITDA impact expanding scope of coverage utilizing e-sourcing tools and promoting supplier development.

Supplier Management

Act as change agent and advocate for Procurement as a value added function.

In conjunction with direct reports and internal customers identify priorities and negotiate supplier agreements within applicable product/service categories.

Evaluate and identify potential sources of supply including global markets.

Establish a supplier strategy - develop supplier partnerships with new suppliers and improve existing supplier relationships.

Coordinate supplier involvement in new/alternate product design.

Coordinate and implement supplier managed inventory/consignment programs.

Develop and implement process improvements and cost savings ideas with suppliers.

Establish and utilize vendor performance management tools and reports to improve consistency and reliability of suppliers

People Development

Supervise the day to day operations of the department staff.

Monitor and evaluate performance of staff mentoring and developing the individuals and documenting corrective action as needed.

Continually recommend and/or initiate business process improvement opportunities around the purchasing processes facilitating changes across the team as required.

Identify implement and monitor required tools processes and procedures to create an effective and efficient organization.

Model and reinforce a positive working environment centered on company values.

Job Requirements

Bachelors Degree

MBA or advanced degree in related discipline preferred

CPM or CPSM preferred

7 years of Category Management experience - designing and implementing successful Category/Sub-Category Strategies

Proven ability to connect ideas events and circumstances to find category management solutions to business problems or goals

Applies flexible approaches to achieving category management results in dynamic situations

Skilled in change adoption change management and resource assessment

Ability to work independently energetic and self-motivated

Experience influencing others to voluntarily adopt Category Management practices

Strong analytical and financial skills

Strong oral and written communication

Proficiency in Microsoft Word Power Point Project Excel and or Access

Competencies

Decision Quality

Responsiveness

Communicates Effectively

Cultivates Innovation

Action Oriented

Drives Quality Results

Work Environment

Office

Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Working times may include irregular hours and on-call status including days evenings weekends and holidays. Team members must adhere to appearance guidelines as defined by Encore based in an office environment and when traveling on an individual venue or a representation of venues in that city or area.

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Required Experience:

Manager