Category Leader – Global Corporate Procurement

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Lead strategic thinking, thought leadership and supplier management in Corporate spend areas.
• Accountable for the development and execution of multi-year category strategies, aligning our sourcing objectives and strategies with overall business objectives.
• Perform best in class sourcing activities from end to end including spend and market analysis, sourcing strategy, RFx, negotiations, contracting, process improvement, and ongoing supplier and stakeholder management.
• Inspire trust and build strong, positive, productive relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Cultivate leadership skills and create an environment of continual improvement both in and outside of your team.
• Develop and support key metrics (TCO, Supplier KPIs, Program Compliance, Savings Pipeline) to ensure needs of business are met.
• Demonstrate an unyielding passion for the guest experience, culture, mission and vision.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Professional Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in leading strategic sourcing projects and multi-year category strategies from inception to implementation including strategic planning, negotiation, and contracting.
• Experience with leading a team of operational and strategic team members across multiple sub-categories and regions.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop strong relationships with internal and external senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical skills and complex problem solving with the ability to develop pricing models appropriate for the goods/services being sourced.
• Comfortable developing and presenting complex initiatives to gain strategic alignment with a variety of stakeholders across the business.
• Financially oriented and can tie strategies and initiatives back to value.
• Collaborative and influential team player.
• High degree of ethics and integrity.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Strong executive presence, organization and communication skills paired with analytical and problem solving aptitude
• Comfortable acting with autonomy under ambiguous circumstances in a fast paced environment – especially with regards to being in front of issues and proactively aligning with stakeholders on remediation action plans
• Comfortable with managing up/down and side/side within an organization to understand business needs, obtain information and drive projects forward
• Adaptive to change and able to respond to varied and unique requests while meeting organizational objectives

Education/Experience:

• A. or B.S. in Finance, Business, Supply Chain, or related field (7 years relevant work experience) required
• Demonstrated experience in process optimization and resource efficiency management
• Strong proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

None

Language Ability:

Must have good reading, writing, and speaking skills to effectively communicate with studios, managers, and co-workers.

Math Ability:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to develop and interpret charts.

Reasoning Ability:

Perform under pressure and/or opposition at times relying on your own independent judgment and knowledge to decide the best directions and solutions.  

Computer Skills:

Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, database software

Supervisory Responsibilities:        

This position will have direct supervisory responsibilities.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The noise level in the environment is moderate. 

Physical Demands:  

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, and use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.  The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.