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True Job Title : ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, CATEGORY MANAGEMENT, IT
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Location : FC or remote
Responsibilities include but are not limited to :
- Develop enterprise-wide IT category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and delivery.
- Partner with Procurement Business Partner and IT department business stakeholders across key technology pillars to understand business objectives, desired product / service specifications and projected demand.
- Ensure the company has a good understanding of the supply market. Work with the Procurement Business Partner and business stakeholders to jointly create innovative win-win customer and supplier strategies.
- Provide IT category subject matter expertise to business stakeholders and cross-functionally.
- Oversee all spend activity for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases in alignment with IT category strategy.
- Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category.
- Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders.
- Collaborate with Procurement Business Partners, Supplier Inclusion and Sourcing Operations to create standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into overall value proposition.
- Develop fact-based negotiation strategies with stakeholders within assigned categories.
- Partner with Procurement Program Managers to operationalize enterprise Procurement programs.
- Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.
- Seek, develop, and establish business relationships with key suppliers. Meet regularly with IT stakeholders to ensure outstanding customer satisfaction and continuous improvement against category targets are met.
- Partner with internal senior leaders, suppliers and cross functional leads to define clear supplier objectives which meet Gilead's business needs, including quality, reliability, innovation, and cost.
- Combine all spend information into yearly plans and long-term forecasts for costs, savings targets, value beyond savings and planned projects.
- Drive use of procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk.
- Foster a culture of inclusion, results orientation and psychological safety to optimize team performance.
Experience Requirements :
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