• Job Description

  Req#: 57960

  Senior Category Manager (IT)

  Are you a dynamic and strategic thinker with a passion for innovation? We're seeking a Senior Category Manager (IT) to spearhead key strategic projects and lead Strategic Sourcing and Category Management activities across all IT spend categories. If you're ready to make an impact on a global scale and build strong partnerships within a forward-thinking organization, this role is tailor-made for you.

  Pay: $140,000.00-$160,000.00.

  The pay listed is the salary range for this position, an estimate and not guaranteed. Any specific offer will vary based on applicant’s experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

  Benefit Information:

  ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM 2023 Employee Benefits | Staff & Management - Building Maintenance and Facility Services

  Why Join Us? As a Senior Category Manager (IT), you'll be at the forefront of driving change and delivering world-class results. With spend under management ranging from $50M - $150M, you'll have the opportunity to showcase your expertise in the IT space while collaborating with diverse business units and subsidiaries. You'll have the autonomy to develop and implement innovative sourcing plans that align with the organization's strategic objectives, both vertically and regionally. This is a role that comes with high visibility, enabling you to demonstrate your leadership skills and consistently add value to the business.

  Primary Responsibilities: Contributes to the procurement strategy through development of enterprise-wide category strategies with respective internal business leads. This will involve:

  • Ensuring appropriate vertical and regional stakeholder engagement, including senior executives and successfully embed a formal, fact-based Strategic Sourcing and Category Management process.
  • Understanding business requirements, demand patterns, market dynamics, supplier economics, to anticipate internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues and to optimize sourcing approach, fostering competition to support positive negotiated outcomes.
  • Identifying elements of category strategy with global, national, regional or sub-region/local leverage potential
  • Recommend alternatives to continuously gain customer buy-in and endorsement.
  • Translate strategies into detailed category plans with set of measurable actions and targets with focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Develop and maintain high quality deliverables (e.g. RFx, Cost Analysis, Evaluation Tools, Presentations, Negotiation Guides and Contractual Documents)
  • Align category targets with each business vertical and identify category “challenges” and manage appropriate solutions.
  • Be highly persuasive and capable of building consensus, despite potential disagreements or complexity
  • Measurement and presentation of results against defined targets
  • Ensure common sourcing approaches across all verticals and regions for execution & implementation
  • Forms and leads cross functional strategic sourcing teams of varying staff levels to address specific opportunities of varying complexity
  • Leads development & negotiation of complex agreements with key strategic suppliers
  • Manage key strategic supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, delivery and responsiveness with focus on TCO
  • Act as a liaison between Business Units, appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g. Legal, Risk Management, Security, AP, etc.), and third-party suppliers, to ensure business objectives are achieved
  • Conduct timely reviews with suppliers to measure performance against contractual standards and performance expectations
  • Develop and manage risk mitigation plans relating to supplier vulnerability, sourcing options and material availability
  • Work closely and interact continually with Director of Indirect Procurement to identify performance/project issues and continuously implement initiatives to upgrade technical, business and interpersonal skills
  • Work closely and partner with the VP of IT on the design and development of the VMO office for the IT organization.

  Minimum Education/Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree required in relevant business or technical discipline. Masters Degree Preferred
  • 10 plus years of stakeholder facing procurement experience with demonstrated ability to negotiate related highly technical and/or complex contracts
  • Strong interpersonal, influencing and people management skills
  • Experience in a field services company or in a facility management role highly preferred
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, highly organized, and excellent problem solving and decision-making skills.
  • Knowledge of strategic sourcing processes/methods and systems (Coupa experience a plus)
  • Excellent analytical and financial acumen
  • Strong project management skills
  • Ability to effectively lead/influence key stakeholders and motivate a team, partly from a distance
  • Strong presentation skills and executive presence necessary to achieve (business) acceptance of procurement practices and procedures, metrics, budgeting/forecasting routines and changes thereto

• About the company

  ABM Industries Inc. is a facility management provider in the United States. Founded in 1909 by Morris Rosenberg in San Francisco, California, as a window washing business. ABM provides facility services in areas such as electrical and lighting, energy, facility engineering, HVAC and mechanical, janitorial services, landscape and grounds, parking and transportation. ABM's services also include energy efficiency and sustainability such as building improvements, electric vehicle charging stations, and renewable energy solutions.

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