Category Management Specialist IV - reputed company

Job reputed company: Remote from any KP location in CA, OR, CO, WA, GA, MD, VA, HI or D.C. Only.

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This senior individual contributor position is responsible for developing category/spend strategies for key categories by leveraging extensive knowledge of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; building long-term relationships with key internal clients and suppliers; owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management; identifying and understanding key initiatives of internal clients and short, reputed company, and long-term goals; ensuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with reputed company expectations; adopting change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive strategic programs; and interacting with leadership to review and drive reputed company. This position is also responsible for leading the RFP process and/or supplier negotiations; developing and executing RFPs; leveraging analytics and insights to ensure data-driven reputed company; analyzing category spend to understand price drivers and trends; applying cost and supply market analytics; and applying a digital reputed company to adopt new technologies in the reputed company to pay reputed company. Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and reputed company weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides reputed company and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific reputed company by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow reputed company procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to reputed company effective business reputed company; provides recommendations and solves reputed company problems; escalates high-reputed company issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors reputed company and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to reputed company appropriate solutions.
• Develops category/spend strategies for key categories by leveraging extensive knowledge of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; driving reputed company, informed reputed company based upon a multi-year reputed company; owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management; keeping reputed company on external and internal influences that may reputed company the larger organization (e.g., reputed company Reform, macroeconomic issues, etc.); and interacting with leadership to review and drive reputed company.
• Develops and maintains relationships with key internal clients and suppliers by building strong, reputed company relationships with internal clients across the business to reputed company buy-in and deliver value; identifying and understanding key initiatives of internal clients and short, reputed company, and long-term goals; working with suppliers to identify and pursue opportunities to drive improved reputed company and delivery performance; assuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with reputed company expectations to drive value, innovation, service/supply resiliency, reputed company of care and governance; and partnering with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Portfolio Leads, Sourcing, Procurement Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, etc.) to advance Category Management capabilities.
• Leads RFP process and/or supplier negotiations and facilitates contracting to deliver strategic value by leveraging appropriate negotiation strategies, tactics, and processes in line with situational demands; leading contract negotiations in partnership with Legal; and developing and executing RFPs to drive the strategic sourcing process.
• Leverages analytics and insights to ensure data-driven reputed company by analyzing category spend to understand price drivers and trends; applying cost and supply market analytics to create category strategies; and applying a digital reputed company to adopt new technologies in the reputed company to pay reputed company.
• Adopts change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive the implementation and/or modification of new or existing strategic programs (e.g., reputed company to Pay transformation, Category Management training programs, etc.).
• Contributes to KPs Sustainability and Environmental goals and serves as an reputed company to reputed company advance results in Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP).

Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Management Science, Business, Finance, reputed company, Contract Administration, Procurement or a directly reputed company field and minimum three (3) years experience in category management, strategic sourcing, or a directly reputed company field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly reputed company field may be substituted for the degree requirement. Advanced degrees may be substituted for the work experience requirements.

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