Category Manager at Uline shaping product strategy and vendor partnerships for business growth. Leading a high - performing team and making a direct impact on company success.
About the role
- Procurement Manager managing indirect categories and driving savings through strategic sourcing. Focused on vendor negotiations and compliance monitoring in a hybrid work environment.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing categories globally to drive savings, process improvement and meet key performance indictators for category, including compliance and monitoring of contracts in alignment with company policies
- Develop RFI’s & RFP’s, conduct in-depth analytics across multiple systems and from various divisions/countries
- Provide category recommendations, counter-proposals, and negotiate to identify and deliver savings to the organization; maintains product quality standards and focuses on reducing costs
- Develolp compliance monitoring programs to ensure implementation strategies are measurable and successful
- Review and provide recommendations to the Senior Procurement Manager and Vice President of Procurement, in coordination with business stakeholders, developing best-in-class category strategies
- Maintain relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organizations including local, regional and corporate leadership; understand their unique needs and ensure category strategy addresses/meets their needs
- Support and maintain Procurement policies and processes, including improving vendor payment terms, contract management, driving sustainability initiatives and managing vendors
- Draft and review contracts with vendors including SOW’s, MSA’s and addendums
- Cross functionally operate with legal, finance and operations to ensure company policies and best practies are followed
- Identify and drive continuous improvement processes and reporting
- Establishes strong relationships with vendors, facilitates communication, and works to ensure products or services provided meet company requirements
- Leads the evaluation of suppliers and works to reduce vendor risk by developing scorecards and analyzing vendor performance.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 3-5 Years of full-time experience in vendor negotiations, Company expense analysis and strategic sourcing activities for an organization (public or private)
- Experience with procurement and vendor management systems, including Procure-to-Pay (P2P), Source-to-Pay (S2P), and Spend Analytics
- Minimum 15% Travel requirement.
- Typical office environment.
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