Role OverviewPenn State's Office of Central Procurement is searching for a Senior Category Lead who will have University-wide responsibility for creating and driving strategic sourcing and vendor management for the Scientific and Research Category Team. The Senior Category Lead acts as a strategic business partner providing leadership in the designated category, providing strategic planning and sourcing and other procurement processes.
What You Will Do
The Senior Category Lead will serve as the subject matter expert within a large, high performance category buying team, including assigning workload, monitoring cycle time, identifying efficiencies and providing status updates to procurement leadership and customers. The Senior Category Lead will also coach and mentor buying team members and provide a support structure for the team to excel.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The successful candidate for this position must demonstrate knowledge of broad concepts, industry policies and procedures related to the development, management, and implementation of a strategic category management plan with University-wide impact.
Requirements
- Extensive knowledge of category, market, and suppliers to drive value and savings for categories.
- High level of analytical skill to develop and maintain detailed reporting and analysis of proposals and vendor capabilities, negotiations, and supplier selection as well as ability to analyze purchasing data, trends and habits within the category.
- High level of communication skills to create and maintain sustainable partnerships and networks both within and outside of the University to ensure comprehensive strategy planning and implementation.
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- robust retirement plans
- substantial paid time off
- holidays, vacation and sick time
- 75% tuition discount, available to employees as well as eligible spouses and children
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