Regional Category Manager - Real Estate and Building Services

Location:

Orlando, United States of America

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Orlando
- Hybrid

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer at the time of hire. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or for assuming sponsorship of an employment visa now or in the future.

The Regional Category Manager will primarily support the Americas Real Estate and Building Services Category. The position will represent the Procurement Organization both globally and for the Americas Region and shall be responsible for the effective creation and implementation of all the category’s strategic direction and management of the category within the scope of their responsibility (primarily supporting the Real Estate category strategy in managing Thales architectural, general contractors, engineers, building services and office furniture purchases for CAPEX projects, and supplier relationship management).

This role will be responsible for developing sourcing strategies, managing supplier relationships, as well as identifying and mitigating supply chain risk.

As Category Manager, and in full alignment with the Segment Director, the individual in this role will be responsible for managing their category, bringing procurement acumen, support and influence strategies that drive product and service innovation.

• Act as the point of contact (POC) for internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Real Estate, Legal, Finance and suppliers etc.) and determine the priorities for the Category within the region
• Ensure the relevant players have a good knowledge of Thales need and support the category strategy so that the business secures targeted projects and customer competitive advantage.
• Ensure that Category, Procurement and Stakeholder Team members adhere to the Thales Group Purchasing policies
• Ensure that clear and measurable savings targets are identified and delivered by category and endorsed by business / project.
• Monitor category markets on an on-going basis to identify and understand key players, newcomers, economic evolutions, market or regulation constraints, innovations and technology in order to support the development of the most up to date category strategies for the businesses.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, procurement or comparable field of study with at least 8 years of relevant work experience in procurement or Master’s degree in procurement or business administration or comparable field of study with at least 6 years of relevant work experience in procurement
• Prior experience developing strategy for a complex procurement organization
• Understanding Construction and / or real estate pricing structure as well as supplier risk assessments and mitigating planning
• Prior experience with construction contracts (AIA, CCDC, etc.) or related, complex contracts
• Ability to create and deploy category strategy to secure short and long term vision of a commodity/ies applying procurement expertise to aid in meeting the same
• Demonstrated…