Category Manager - Professional Corporate Services

ITG Brands is the third-largest tobacco company in the USA with offerings of some of the most well-known cigarette, cigar, and e-vapor brands. As a member of the globally recognized Imperial Brands PLC family, we are a forward-thinking partner with operational integrity.

ITG Brands is the third-largest tobacco company in the USA with offerings of some of the most well-known cigarette, cigar, and e-vapor brands. As a member of the globally recognized Imperial Brands PLC family, we are a forward-thinking partner with operational integrity. ItG Brands is committed to putting consumers at the center of what we do, while creating an innovative workplace where inclusion, creativity, and bold thinking drive progress.

This empowers us to bring our true selves to work, to collaborate more effectively through showing our passion and being confident to bring new ideas to the table. We are not afraid to seize opportunities and make things happen – both individually and collaboratively. We strive to exceed expectations by seeing things differently and doing things differently. This truly is a place where we all share a challenger mindset which drives our success.

• JOB SUMMARY
  - Lead procurement strategy for Professional/Corporate Services in Americas, delivering measurable value through category strategy, sourcing, supplier performance management, cross-functional project delivery. Point of contact for Category procurement activities in USA, ensuring compliance with procurement policies, governance requirements, drive alignment to indirect strategic initiatives. Accountable for converting Professional & Corporate Services spend into measurable, sustainable P&L impact, managing delivery risk, stakeholder complexity, ensuring category strategies deliver business objectives.

Principal Accountabilities
- Own category strategy, implementation for Professional/ Corporate Services across Americas region. Own, deliver category plans, including strategic sourcing, contract negotiation activities (pricing, terms, service levels) to ensure delivery of category objectives, value creation, reflected within business plans, P&L. Build, maintain strong working relationships with business stakeholders, external service providers to influence at strategic level, ensure business requirements are effectively met.

Ensure contract administration, supplier performance management activities are in place, operating effectively. Lead supplier performance, relationship management activities across Professional & Corporate Services category. Accountable for ensuring compliance with approved procurement policies, governance requirements, buying channels. Manage supplier risk, sustainability, compliance requirements within agreed frameworks, organizational standards. Manage the Professional and Corporate Services opportunity pipeline in alignment with regional leaders and global stakeholders, ensuring visibility, prioritization, delivery confidence against plan.

Work closely with indirect procurement teams, global Professional/Corporate Services teams to implement global category strategies, procurement solutions wherever possible. Critical Decisions
- Partner with senior stakeholders to understand business requirements, support delivery of category strategies. Determine most appropriate sourcing approach for Professional/Corporate Services requirements (e.g. RFQ, RFP, direct award or framework use) in line with category strategy, business needs. Lead sourcing events, supplier negotiations, contract awards. Determine supplier shortlists, make supplier selection recommendations based on capability, risk, value, alignment to category objectives.

Establish commercial negotiation positions relating…