Category Specialist The Category Specialist position will be responsible for category management and contracting activities supporting the Global Professional Services Category team. Accountable for the successful execution of category plans, sourcing, negotiations, supplier management, local market intelligence and contracting processes. The Category Specialist will identify and develop relationships with business unit stakeholders and suppliers to meet business unit objectives. Responsibilities include applied knowledge of Supply Chain Management particularly in Category Management, strong understanding of the recruiting, labor, staffing industry, contingent labor, workforce planning, and professional services. Ability to plan, negotiate, and manage contracts as well as follow contracting processes, high potential to develop strong business and commercial acumen, ability to facilitate a cross-functional team in problem definition, solution development, and execution, ability to work on a team, build consensus, and resolve issues. Proactive, engaged, and professional communicator who can establish good stakeholder relationships, can accountably set and deliver against deadlines, practice in procurement systems including GEP Smart, Ariba, procurement modules such as eSourcing, Contracts, and procurement operations. Demonstrated ability to conduct various types of assessments and analyses to fully understand unfamiliar markets and recommend strategies, ability to develop a sound business case based on analyses. Required qualifications include 5-7 years finance related experience required, verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, negotiation skills and interpersonal skills, gleans new ideas, processes, and tools from external sources for continuous improvement to projects, brings innovation and positive business change from suppliers, expert ability to analyze financial reports, price proposals and other technical data, expert ability to accurately document and record customer/client information, expert leadership and mentoring skills necessary to provide support and constructive performance feedback, expert knowledge of applicable laws and regulations related to labor, expert knowledge of supply chain management.
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