Global Category Manager, IT & Telecom - Remote
Dentsply Sirona
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Drive supplier reduction plan across all regions, track and communicate progress
- Lead Category Management across all regions
- Communicate results status on a weekly basis to N+1 with required action plan status when results not at budget
- Ensure capital improvements actions in line with Indirect Procurement goals
- Ensure budget saving achievements in line with Global Indirect Procurement budget, build a robust 3 years saving pipeline to mitigate inflation and back up savings that may not be implemented
- Deploy List of Preferred suppliers and monitor compliance
- Drive Supplier performance management across all regions and manage directly top 15 Vendors
- Lead the category with strong leadership and cooperation with RSL, Strategic Buyers, Ops buyers, organizing priorities, tasks, and projects to achieve the category goals and strategy
- Prepare and execute RFI's, RFQ's, e-RFQ's, auctions and negotiations.
- Ensure timely and compliant implementation of new contracts and manage supplier agreements through contract life.
- Identify and drive procurement projects to deliver cost savings and ensure project plans and related savings are documented and maintained in required project/savings tracking tool.
- Ensure MSA signed with all suppliers with spend
- Proactive analysis of market conditions (market trends, macroeconomic indicators, regulatory changes, etc.) and capture best practices
- Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers (strategic vendor management), build improvement roadmaps
- Communicate regularly on status, goals and objectives with stakeholders using facts and data
- Build relationships and partner closely with key business stakeholders to understand current and future business requirements, strategy, challenges, opportunities and proactively address them in the Strategy, deploy technological roadmap
- Deploy together with key stakeholders a solid off-shoring action plan with key vendors
- Drive Software spend management, trigger decisions to stop or optimize usage
- Establish, deploy, and implement a multi-years Strategy Plan
- Communicate overall market & category trends/results to management and stakeholders
- Contribute to the definition/implementation of best in class tools, procedures, process, spend management & classification, and other projects
- Hold weekly calls with RSL and Strategic buyers sharing objectives, results status, priorities for the category, tasks assignment
- Additional responsibilities as assigned
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, IT or other related field
- 7 years + managing IT Category Globally
- 5+ years in leading global teams
- Experience in managing procurement technological changes
- Experience developing and managing suppliers
- Experience in building & developing teams
- Excellent commercial instincts & business knowledge/acumen
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong analytical & problem-solving capability
- Able to effectively manage/lead virtual teams
- Strong IT category knowledge
- Able to manage multiple projects & priorities across regions
- Able to develop strategic, multi-year, multi $M supply relationships
- Proven track record in delivering cost savings/results
- Fluent English language skills