Jabil Inc.
IT Category Manager (Finance)
Position Summary
You will develop and manage one or more sourcing spend categories and manage all contracts associated with them; develop strategic category plans to optimize cost savings, service excellence, diversity spend and total cost of ownership for the categories; effectively influence Lines of Business (LOB) including senior leadership to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment of sourcing strategies; and work with LOBs to develop, source, and negotiate major contracts and play a key role in the Supplier Relationship Management/Scorecard process.
Responsibilities:
• Subject matter expert for particular commodities or services in the industry.
• Lead the development of category strategies.
• Lead cross-functional team through strategic sourcing process and development/execution of negotiation strategies for spend categories
• Work with senior management to support strategic planning and decision-making at the officer level.
• Develop and review performance data with suppliers. Works with suppliers to drive ongoing value discovery.
• Develop and sustain mutually beneficial strategic relationships with category and cross-portfolio suppliers.
• Maintain awareness of industry and market trends through ongoing research commodities by working with the industry on best practices.
• Create and maintain category plans.
• Conduct and document market research and supplier risk analysis to verify the financial health of existing and potential suppliers
Qualifications
Minimum:
• Bachelor's degree in business administration, supply chain management or job-related discipline, or equivalent experience
• 8 years of experience in supply chain or job-related field
Desired:
• 10 years of work experience in procurement or sourcing
• MBA or Master's degree in a job-related discipline
• Lean Six Sigma certification (LSS)
• Project Management Professional certification (PMP)
• Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) from Institute for Supply Management (ISM)
• Competency in building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Competency in building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Competency in applying project management theories, concepts, methods, best practices, and techniques as needed to perform at the job level
• Competency in leading cross-functional teams and to manage projects of high complexity
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office
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