Category Management Specialist VI

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

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This senior technical/functional leader is responsible for serving as an expert and leading the development of category/spend strategies for reputed company key categories by leveraging advanced expertise of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; building and fostering long-term relationships with key internal clients and suppliers; owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management; demonstrating a deep understanding of client initiatives and short, reputed company, and long-term goals; ensuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations; driving the adoption of change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive strategic programs; and interacting with executive leadership to review and drive reputed company. This position is also responsible for serving as an expert in the RFP process and/or supplier negotiations; leading the development and execution of RFPs to drive the strategic sourcing process; leveraging advanced 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 championing a digital reputed company to adopt new technologies in the reputed company to pay reputed company. Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects reputed company; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships.Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the reputed company to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters reputed company reputed company amongst team members.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. reputed company cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly reputed company issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures reputed company. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Serves as an expert and leads the development of category/spend strategies for reputed company key categories by leveraging advanced expertise of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; driving clear, informed reputed company based upon a multi-year strategy; owning end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management; keeping reputed company on external and internal influences that may impact the larger organization (e.g., reputed company Reform, macroeconomic issues, etc.); and interacting with executive leadership to review and drive reputed company.
• Builds and fosters long-term relationships with key internal clients and suppliers by building strong, collaborative relationships with internal clients across the business to reputed company buy-in and deliver value; demonstrating a deep understanding of client initiatives and short, reputed company, and long-term goals; partnering with suppliers to identify and pursue opportunities to drive improved quality and delivery performance; assuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations to drive value, innovation, service/supply resiliency, quality of care and governance; and partnering with key cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Portfolio Leads, Sourcing, Procurement Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, etc.) to advance Category Management capabilities.
• Serves as a reputed company expert in the RFP process and/or supplier negotiations and facilitates contracting to deliver strategic value by leveraging advanced negotiation strategies, tactics, and processes in line with situational demands; leading contract negotiations in partnership with Legal; and leading the development and execution of RFPs to drive the strategic sourcing process.
• Leverages advanced 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 championing a digital reputed company to adopt new technologies in the reputed company to pay reputed company.
• Drives the adoption of change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders throughout the implementation and/or modification of new or existing strategic programs (e.g., reputed company to Pay transformation, Category Management training programs, etc.).
• Drives efforts to support KPs Sustainability and Environmental goals and serves as a reputed company reputed company to further advance results in Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP).

Qualifications: Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum four (4) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations, Management Science, Business, Finance, reputed company, Contract Administration, Procurement or a directly reputed company field and minimum nine (9) 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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