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Introducción

IBM is looking for a self-driven and highly motivated Category Manager for Corporate Services with proven experience to join our IBM Procurement Services team for one of IBM’s key clients in United Kingdom

As Corporate Services Category Manager , you will own and lead projects, including but not limited to providing category insights to assist and maintain in their strategy development.

Su función y responsabilidades
  • You would need to independently run larger scale procurement projects requiring independence of thought, strong stakeholder management skills and advanced negotiation and support periodic key stakeholder meetings with client to lead and review category strategy and activities.
  • You will have network with leading class sourcing professionals to support your role and career path
  • You will own primary responsibility to achieve client success against all contractual commitments at a category level
  • You will assist our clients with strategic sourcing and engage budget holders in strategic procurement strategies to maximize ROI from the investment, appropriate levels of service and compliance with procedures and ensure that professional best practice is achieved
  • You will be responsible for on-going category management activities including driving supplier performance, demand management savings, and increasing category compliance
  • You will communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization, primary interface to key category client stakeholders
  • You will build and maintain open and transparent relationships with business colleagues that contribute to mitigating change resistance
  • You will gather and analyze data to provide insights that support decision(s)

 

Educación requerida
Diploma de secundaria / GED
Experiencia profesional y técnica requerida
  • Strong decision-making skills and demonstrated negotiation expertise
  • Supplier relationship management expertise and client facing skill
  • Proactive character and team player attitude
  • High levels of personal drive, initiative, and commitment to business goal
  • Fluent in English and strong communication skills
  • Minimum 5 years of Category Management experience  (or 7 years of Strategic Sourcing experience) in Corporate Services Category
Experiencia técnica y profesional preferida
  • Experience with dashboards and reporting tools in general
  • Experience with e-sourcing tools

Acerca de la Unidad de Negocios

IBM Finance es la unidad de negocio encargada de impulsar el rendimiento y la transformación empresarial. Administradramos las finanzas de IBM, implementamos la estrategia financiera, desarrollamos nuevos modelos de negocios y mitigamos el riesgo empresarial. ¿Tiene pasión por crear valor empresarial? Únase a nuestro equipo en contabilidad, planificación financiera, precios, controles comerciales, impuestos, tesorería, desarrollo comercial (adquisiciones y desinversiones) y financiamiento global.

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In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

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Acerca de IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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