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Walgreens · 2 days ago

Senior Category Manager, Indirect Procurement

Deerfield, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$115K/yr - $196K/yr

4+ years exp

Walgreens is a leading retail pharmacy and health services company that serves millions of customers daily. The Senior Category Manager, Indirect Procurement is responsible for executing procurement strategies, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring cost-effective purchasing of indirect goods and services.

Consumer GoodsHealth CarePharmaceuticalRetail

Hiring Manager

Nicole LaVallie

Responsibilities

Directs and executes strategic sourcing strategies, best practices, and initiatives that support aggressive improvements in supplier quality, total cost effectiveness, enhanced service levels, improved coordination, delivery, pricing, lead-times, payment, risk compliance and other areas as identified

Executes category sourcing strategies including development and execution of RFI’s and RFP’s, documents bid events through correspondence to suppliers; develops selection criteria and drives the selection of suppliers in collaboration with a cross-functional teams; conducts supplier negotiations and ongoing supplier management

Actively seeks ways to streamline business processes; researches and provides information on industry category trends and best practices. Provides procurement input to maximize procurement leverage, optimizes project design and minimizes project durations and cost

Develops negotiation strategies, gains alignment from stakeholders, leads cross-functional, category-based negotiation teams, and implements appropriate supplier risk analysis. Directly negotiates with suppliers that require a detailed strategic plan and have a direct correlation with Walgreens operational needs and goals

Uses current spend information/data and business knowledge to identify sourcing projects for individual subcategories and develops an overall cost reduction plan. Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of business requirements and category ownership by creating and defending category strategies and decisions with sound analytics. Delegates analytic tasks to key support functions; and synthesizes results

Develops supplier score card to measure supplier performance against agreed upon key performance indicators, tracks compliance and supports formal management reporting to director and other members of senior management. Benchmark, track, and analyze annual performance metrics and sourcing trends against budget on a monthly basis to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress against strategic objectives. Implement supplier management programs with key suppliers including metrics, performance goals, and improvement initiatives

Monitors supplier performance to ensure that delivery dates and technical and contractual requirements are met. Participates in strategic meetings with suppliers and business leaders to ensure execution of defined strategies. Manages day-to-day on-going category supplier relations and seeks outgrowth or revision opportunities within supply base. Acts as the internal point of contact for supplier management and complaint resolution; conducts regular supplier meetings and implements improvement strategies with suppliers. Creates, nurtures, and enhances supplier relationships

Aggressively manages category performance by adhering to internal Savings goals and reviewing financial models for commodity type items. Ensures spend portfolio for reoccurring managed spend is balanced through coordinated sourcing waves and leveraged with Capital project sourcing activities

Drives consolidation of spend and seeks out synergies across Business Units where applicable, by forming and leading cross-functional strategic sourcing teams to develop and implement category/commodity strategies and to drive cost from individual spend sub-categories. Champions weekly category review meetings with cross-functional teams to manage category performance

Qualification

Indirect procurementSupplier managementNegotiation strategiesFinancial decision makingData analyticsCross-functional team leadershipMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft PowerPointMicrosoft WordAI utilizationConsulting experience

Required

Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of procurement, retail, catalog, finance and/or banking experience OR Master's degree and at least 2 years of indirect procurement experience OR High School Diploma/GED and at least 7 years of experience in procurement, retail, catalog, finance and/or banking

Experience working with business and/or procurement lifecycles and best practices

Experience in negotiations and developing/executing on strategies

Experience collaborating with internal and external resources to develop strategies that meet department goals within budget and established timelines

Experience managing people, projects and/or cross functional teams

At least 2 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace

At least 2 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross-functional team leadership

Willing to travel up to/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state)

Preferred

MBA or other advanced degree or CPM certification

At least 3 years of experience in negotiating deals

Advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel and data analytics (for example: using functions, inserting and working with pivot tables, analyzing and summarizing large data sets, generating complex financial models and business cases)

Intermediate level skill in Microsoft PowerPoint (for example: applying a theme, formatting character spacing, inserting a picture, changing slide layout and theme colors, adding transitions, customizing slide numbers, changing chart style and/or formatting font)

Intermediate level skill in Microsoft Word (for example: inserting headers, page breaks, page numbers and tables and/or adjusting table columns)

Ability to leverage AI such as ChatGPT to streamline productivity and enhance communication

Consulting experience and/or experience with the photocopy industry a plus

Company

Walgreens

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Walgreens is a pharmacy, health, and wellness service center that offers trained infusion nurses and pharmacists to treat patients. It is a sub-organization of Walgreens Boots Alliance.

Founded in 1901

Deerfield, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees