What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Sourcing Category Manager - Vice President position at JPMorgan Chase?
Join a team that helps shape how JPMorgan Chase partners with critical suppliers across logistics, transportation, fulfillment, card manufacturing, print and mail operations. In this role, you will lead strategic sourcing initiatives, influence business decisions and deliver measurable value through supplier partnerships, commercial negotiations and category strategy.
Job summary
As a Global Sourcing Category Manager - Vice President in Global Supplier Services, you will lead category strategy, sourcing execution and contract negotiations for third-party supplier spend. You will support business partners across logistics, transportation, fulfillment, carrier pricing, card manufacturing, enterprise print, mail operations and other large-scale operational services. You will use market insight, commercial judgment and stakeholder partnership to deliver savings, reduce risk, improve supplier performance and support business priorities.
Job responsibilities
- Develop and execute category strategies for assigned supplier spend
- Analyze spend, cost drivers, supplier markets and industry trends to identify savings and value opportunities
- Lead sourcing events, including requirements gathering, supplier identification, proposal evaluation, negotiation and contract development
- Partner with business stakeholders, regional sourcing teams, Legal, Risk, Finance, Third Party Oversight and control partners to deliver compliant sourcing outcomes
- Manage supplier relationships and drive accountability for performance, service delivery, value and risk
- Identify opportunities to improve total cost of ownership, operational performance and supplier optimization
- Communicate sourcing recommendations, risks, trade-offs and decisions to stakeholders
- Support preferred supplier, savings, compliance and risk mitigation objectives
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 5 years experience managing sourcing categories, supplier negotiations or third-party supplier spend
- Experience supporting logistics, transportation, print, mail, fulfillment, card manufacturing or other operational services categories
- Strong commercial, analytical and negotiation skills
- Ability to conduct market, industry, supplier and cost-driver analysis to support decision-making
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and communicate across functions
- Experience leading sourcing events, including RFI, RFP or RFQ processes
- Experience interpreting and executing supplier agreements, schedules or transaction-level documents
- Strong project management skills, including planning, execution, issue resolution and stakeholder updates
- Strong risk management judgment with the ability to identify, mitigate and communicate business risks
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience supporting financial services, consumer banking, digital banking or large enterprise operations
- Experience with transportation, logistics, carrier agreements, print production, card manufacturing, mail or print operations equipment
- Experience using Ariba or similar sourcing and contracting platforms
- Demonstrated continuous improvement mindset with the ability to challenge the status quo and deliver practical solutions
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
- Experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and supplier partners