What are the responsibilities and job description for the Procurement Manager position at The Children's Place, Inc.?
Location : Secaucus, New Jersey
Job Summary :
We are looking for an experienced sourcing and category manager to join our Strategic Procurement team. You will have responsibility for strategic sourcing and category management of products and services across non-merchandise areas of spending. The Procurement Manager will drive value for The Children's Place by working closely with business leaders in the organization to meet functional and company goals and lower the total cost of ownership for spend within their control. Our major non-merchandise areas of spending include, but are not limited to, Information Technology, Marketing and Supply Chain. The Procurement Manager will focus primarily on Information Technology categories, including hardware, software, maintenance and consulting, while also supporting other spend areas as well as Strategic Procurement department initiatives.
Responsibilities :
Key Accountabilities :
- Review, understand and validate spend classification of non-merchandise purchasing through discussions with business and finance partners
- Collaborate with finance, business and other key stakeholders to develop a comprehensive multi-year pipeline of projects; Develop project charters with detailed timelines, key stakeholders and estimated project value; Review and validate baselines and savings estimates with finance
- Identify and capture key business and functional requirements, key metrics, SLAs, potential risks for each project
- Develop category strategies to achieve cost savings and improve quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as product standardization and volume / supplier consolidation. Partner with business functions to gain agreement on category scope and strategies
- Provide category procurement subject matter expertise to the associated business / function group and sourcing specialists and seek out expertise from business / function when necessary
- Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category areas and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders
- Effectively work with functional and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product / service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans
- Lead cross-functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category areas by assisting with sourcing strategy, negotiations, and supplier selection and overseeing project execution
- Develop strategic supplier relationship management programs to be executed by the Business / Function
- Build and maintain long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers
- Drive use of procurement best practices and standardization of procurement processes while minimizing supply risk
- Understand key business terms and category legal terms. Support the implementation of these into contracts and agreements
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