Category Sourcing Manager

Job Description

We are focused on raising the bar on talent. We are dedicated to shaping an inclusive culture that drives excellence, innovation, and results by enabling talent acceleration and development, engagement, and team member experience.

The Category Sourcing Manager drives and supports the development of Spend Category practices for assigned Category, including sourcing strategy definition, execution, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of savings and procurement value contribution. Utilizes various strategic sourcing practices and levers to maximize category objectives to drive advantaged cost, quality and risk management goals. Works in collaboration with cross functional teams to understand business needs, category market insights, risks, and opportunities, and help drive Procurement goals.

They deliver procurement value contribution to the Company while ensuring compliance with policies, strategies, and processes.

• Lead category strategy development and planning.
• Lead development of strategies (including category strategy, supplier management strategy, and P2P strategy) for assigned sub-Category to drive regional and global business expectations.
• Lead supplier negotiation strategy and process.
• Analyze spending data and understand business needs.
• Provide market and supplier insights to maximize opportunities.
• Develop sourcing strategy with implications on the business unit (e.g. productivity, cash, revenue).
• Support strategy execution across all category initiatives. Functions as the channel data expert to support the internal team in all selling processes, forecasting consumption, Gross Sales, Loyalty and promotions.
• Manage strategy alignment and execution for assigned Category.
• Strategy communication and alignment with cross functional teams.
• Prepare and plan for any of the go-to-market initiatives (RFXs, collaborative optimization discussions, bids, etc.) bids, and co‑lead negotiations.
• Actively engage in key initiatives (aggregate demand, construct bid packages, and support sourcing through supplier interactions) especially negotiations to ensure value levers are effectively played.
• Project prioritization and securing resources for implementation.
• Build knowledge base and insights:
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand business needs, market insights, risks, and opportunities.
• Leverage analyst pool to create standardized process of building fact base, internal and external benchmarking and implement as part of the sourcing strategy.
• Demonstrate Category Leadership Imperatives and Values to drive end‑to‑end value delivery for the assigned Category.
• Support goals and drive KPI’s in accordance with the global Procurement vision.

• Identify and manage the connectivity of the Category teams with functional stakeholders, suppliers, and internal procurement teams (viz. Procurement Operations, Commercialization Procurement, Innovation Procurement).
• Manage stakeholder engagement and alignment throughout the end‑to‑end sourcing process.
• Lead and support supplier relationship management (SRM) program for the assigned Category.
• Manage commercial supplier relationships and contracts.
• Lead contract implementation and drive contract compliance in accordance with policies and processes.
• Support contract compliance management, define and support corrective actions in alignment with cross functional teams to improve contract compliance.

• Manage delivery of margin, innovation, cash flow and other deliverables for the assigned category.
• Be a point person responsible for delivery of goals for the assigned Category. Support management of internal customer relationships related to defined Category.
• Within the framework of the cross functional sourcing and supplier development teams, closely develop and manage the relationship with internal customers.
• Manage internal customer feedback and supplier performance.
• Improve and reinforce Procurement’s profile and recognition within the internal customer community.