Category Procurement Manager- Data Center

My client is seeking a Category Manager that will purchase equipment for the Data Center. Will work 4 days onsite with 1 day remote. Salary is up to $120K. No waiting period for medical, dental and vision insurance plans so you are covered on day one, and the dental plan is free for employees. Generous 401(k) retirement plan allows employees to start contributing to their plan after a month of service, and after 3 months of service will contribute 6.5% of base wages AND match employee contributions up to 4.5%. Competitive vacation and sick leave package starts day one to allow for flexibly and a healthy work-life balance.

Responsible for primarily handling high value sourcing requirements for complex services and materials. This position has overall responsibility and accountability for the development and execution of strategic category plans for assigned categories to optimize value, service excellence, and total cost of ownership for the category. Leads supplier management and stakeholder relationship management. Responsible for ensuring policy compliance, budget control, and process efficiencies by seeking and selecting the lowest total cost of ownership via sourcing strategies to procure goods and services.

This includes the application of category management, strategic sourcing, negotiations, market intelligence, creation of formal contracts, project planning and management, change orders and other methods to ensure that suppliers meet the specific terms of the contracts, maintain complete compliance of those terms, and monitor the success of projects through supplier and project management. This can entail all aspects of procure to pay process to determine the best interests.

Key Responsibilities

· Engage internal stakeholders across the organization to align priorities, drive business results, and demonstrate how the supply chain can effectively deliver service and value.

· Lead cross-functional teams through sourcing process. Conduct spend analysis, needs assessment, benchmarking and business case development. Identify potential cost savings, spend reduction, supplier consolidation and standardization opportunities. Develop category sourcing strategies. Lead supplier selection and recommendation activities including: qualitative and quantitative analysis, selection criteria, long and short lists, RFI and RFP development and analysis. Lead development and execution of negotiation strategies. Work with Legal and Risk Management to identify and mitigate contract risks.

· Maintain industry and market trend knowledge through research and networking. Consider environmental impact of sourcing decisions. Create commodity specific sourcing strategies to optimize the supply base, diversity spending and total cost of ownership. Achieve category savings. Develop and manage supplier scorecards and supporting programs. Address and resolve supplier performance issues.

· Build and sustain business partnerships with internal stakeholders. Maintain a customer focus through communication and understanding the line of business needs. Improve stakeholder understanding and commitment to the Supply Chain Policy and industry best practices. Work with subject matter experts to gather and assess business requirements. Monitor and maximize customer satisfaction using standardized reporting metrics. Achieve customer satisfaction targets including completion of sourcing projects and contract renewals on time and maintaining due date compliance.

· Administer all aspects of assigned major contracts, categories, and commodities. This includes but is not limited to negotiating commercial terms, monitoring and managing supplier performance, contract releases, change orders / field work directives for the approval of projects, award of contracts, as well as related amendments and closeouts.

· Handle transactional purchase orders as required.

· Ensure that schedules are adhered to and continually monitor projects as to time requirements and completion dates. Utilize project management tools to ensure compliance.

· Follow Supply Chain strategic sourcing requirements, including Phase Gate Reviews and fully utilize work management tools and proper system functionality.

· Maintain all pertinent information related to qualified suppliers and research the market for competitive solutions as well as to identify material and labor cost drivers.

· Qualify new and existing suppliers as required.

· Provide data as necessary and prepare items for submittal contract approvals, change orders, closeouts, land acquisitions, Work Plan Amendments

· Responsible for supplier management and related process improvement including on-time delivery, supplier performance, pricing reviews, reporting, reviews, etc.

· Assist in the development of annual budgets.

· Guide project staff and advise senior managers on contractual issues based on knowledge of contractual documentation.

· Manage work within categories. Assign tasks, requisitions and projects to sourcing agents on sub-team to ensure business needs are met. Lead and mentor sourcing agents.

· Utilize technology, especially ERP Sourcing tools, to optimize work process and serve as a functional expert to assist with training department members for full utilization.

· Support and assist with development of department and cooperative strategic objectives.

· Address and resolve all related issues including but not limited to supplier performance, invoice resolution, business unit integration, process recommendations.

Qualifications

· Bachelor degree in a related field OR combination of education and experience may substitute.

· 5 years Power Generator Transmission procurement experience.