Category Lead

Company: Artech LLC
Location: Columbus
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Job Title: Category Lead
Duration: 12 months
Location: Columbus, OH 43215
Job ID: 1920

Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or equivalent work-related experience

• Proven track record to deliver results and achieve goals
  
• Demonstrated ability to develop effective working relationships with others
  
• Experience leading cross-functional teams
  
• Ability to build support and consensus
  
• Proven financial acumen and analytical abilities
  
  
  Preferred:
  MBA
  
  
• Certified Procurement Manager (CPM)
  
• Three years of leadership experience
  
• Experience managing large supplier agreements
  
• Experience working in a Shared Services organization
  
• Supply Chain experience in the utility industry
  
• Knowledgeable in category management and strategic sourcing practices
  
  
  Responsibilities:
  
  
  
• Establishing, leading/facilitating, and supporting cross functional category management teams to develop and maintain category plans and ongoing category performance
  
• Developing deep knowledge and experience within assigned spend management responsibilities
  
• Developing spend/performance and external market analyses to monitor category performance and identify performance improvement opportunities
  
• Developing spend and savings/performance improvement forecasts to monitor progress and ensure goals are achieved
  
• Developing plans to capture identified opportunities
  
• Defining category requirements through collaborative efforts with respective stakeholder groups
  
• Collaborating with stakeholder groups to develop consensus on the appropriate category plans and priorities
  
• Leading performance improvement initiatives defined by the category plan including strategic sourcing and other performance improvement initiatives
  
• Establishing, leading/facilitating and supporting cross functional strategic sourcing/performance improvement teams as needed/prescribed by category plans to achieve savings and performance targets (e.g. reduce cost, improve quality and result in a lower total cost of ownership, meeting supplier diversity goals)
  
• Leading negotiations with suppliers as needed
  
• Maintaining critical supplier agreements including renewals, negotiation of terms, issue identification, tracking and resolution
  
• Supplier Management responsibilities include:
  
  
• Developing and maintaining supplier criticality ratings and managing resulting critical supplier relationships
  
• Managing supplier relationships including conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with critical suppliers and NiSource Executive Sponsors
  
  
  
• Stakeholder Management responsibilities include:
  
  
• Developing successful partnerships with key stakeholders / business partners to achieve desired results
  
• Developing and managing cross-functional category management and strategic sourcing teams as needed
  
• Collaborating with stakeholders to drive needed decisions to achieve desired results
  
  
  
  
  Comments/Special Instructions
  This role will focus on Indirect purchases i.e. real estate, uniforms, etc.

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