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News Corp · 4 hours ago

Sr. Manager, Real Estate and Facilities, Category Leader

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$125K/yr - $165K/yr

5+ years exp

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content. They are seeking a Real Estate and Facilities, Category Leader to develop and implement sourcing strategies, manage stakeholder relationships, and drive category management initiatives to enhance procurement processes across the organization.

AnalyticsInformation Technology

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Lead the delivery of the annual YOY productivity savings & working capital impact across the category owners; set preliminary vision/goals for the category assigned in first 90-days on the job based on identified cost drivers

Develop, execute, and implement a complete Category Strategy for Real Estate and Facilities Services, collaborating with key stakeholders, team members, and leaders affected by the respective category; Play an integral role in the development of multi-year global category plans and strategies that drive supplier consolidation and leverage spend across the organization while increasing spend under contract

Follow structured project management methods and principles to execute complex, long-term category management and strategic sourcing initiatives

Adopt/leverage the Category Performance framework and define metrics related to category performance and continuously tracks them

Prepare and execute clear, structured negotiations following the Global Sourcing and Procurement Category Management and Strategic Sourcing methodologies

Start/Run program level initiatives that can create benefits such as improving an existing process, execute actions to increase diversity, etc

Manage Category cards detailing overall category strategies, preferred suppliers, and business unit requirements for execution; ensure category health is tracking per strategy/goals/plan

Develop 'should cost' and 'total cost of ownership models' for the category; support the strategies & targets set by the Category Head

Build strong partnerships with key budget owners, functional stakeholders, and strategic suppliers

Be part of multiple cross-functional teams executing major category initiatives, ensure delivery of values across the procurement process, contribute to the compliance tracking of category specific policies and performance metrics, and support the translation of rapidly evolving category market trends and leading practices into opportunities for News Corp

Establishing strong relationships with internal business partners; building a robust understanding of strategic business direction, requirements and priorities across assigned suppliers and/or spend categories

Developing global sourcing strategies to deliver against business objectives for internal clients

Evaluating supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and benchmarking analysis; leveraging key-insights to inform and support the category strategy development process

Managing the fundamentals of sourcing and supplier engagement activities including RFx, spend pattern analysis, contract analysis, bid evaluation, negotiations, and supplier consolidation

Working with business and finance leaders to identify and drive savings and controllership improvements, focusing on total cost of ownership

Providing guidance to internal stakeholders on procurement strategies; maintaining procurement ethics in accordance with News Corp’s global policies & methodologies

Preparing and holding business reviews with stakeholders to review vendor performance, future opportunities, and/or challenges

Develops an understanding of the designated business unit market strategy and in coordination with the Business Sourcing Partners, proactively identifies individual spend category strategies/drivers that will allow to meet aggressive cost reduction targets

Works with senior cross-functional internal customers as well as the Business Sourcing Partner to define detailed business requirements with designated business units, prioritizing business requirements and taking them through approval process; Participates in standardized relationship management processes globally for designated business area(s)

Ensures Sourcing Partners as well as Contracting and Sourcing Analysts follow the category strategy & policies, procedures without deviation

Implements change management strategies within designated business units to increase utilization of best practices sourcing and procurement solutions

Assists the Business Sourcing Partner in business unit capacity and demand planning forecasting customer business unit demand

Negotiation of global preferred supplier agreements

Maintains the contracting database and feeds the Supplier Relationship Management system

Perform negotiation of contracts with selected suppliers leveraging tools/technology or supplier contract template including but not limited to Software as a Service, comprehensive Master Services Agreements, Master License and Service Agreement, Statement of Work, Amendments, etc. and negotiation of global preferred supplier agreements, following the legal guidelines

Execute SOWs of complex and strategic nature through creation to approval

Manage escalations to the legal department appropriately, as needed

Be a contracting subject matter expert (SME) providing coaching and advisory services to other sourcing managers in the team under given category

Qualification

Strategic sourcingCategory managementNegotiationProject managementReal estate experienceSupplier managementData analyticsContract managementChange managementRisk assessmentCommunication skillsInterpersonal skillsTeam leadershipCustomer focusCross-functional collaboration

Required

Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree or equivalent experience required

Minimum 5 years of global real estate and facilities (or closely related) strategic sourcing experience

Minimum 3 years experience leading cross-cultural teams

Embraces fact‐based decision making; naturally seeks to leverage and/or integrate market data, spend analytics, and cost modeling

Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories

Expert negotiator with proven experience in setting negotiation strategies and conducting negotiations

Strong project management skills, including adhering to stakeholder timelines, and meeting management skills

Expert understanding of, and deep experience with, multi-step strategic sourcing processes and category management strategies

Extensive knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms

Experienced at assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to principal business owners

Extremely customer-focused, taking the time to understand the needs of the business

Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries

Understanding of legal terms and implications; ability to redline contracts aligned with legal guidelines

Contract drafting experience as well as excellent understanding of contractual terms, both commercially and legally

Leads category, sourcing strategy and demand planning discussions, using group facilitation strengths and experience

Ability to accomplish results through others, particularly by establishing relationships, effective controls and monitoring processes

Experience in using eSourcing tools including eRFx, reverse auctions, project management tools, and contract management tools Ariba or similar (sourcing and contracting), ServiceNow, Oracle, SAP, etc

Preferred

MBA preferred

Certification in Procurement such as CPSM or CSCP, preferred

Certification in Six Sigma, preferred

Benefits

Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package

Physical health

Retirement and savings

Caregiving

Emotional wellbeing

Transportation

Elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce

Company

News Corp

Glassdoor3.6

News Corp is home to some of the world’s most trusted brands, producing content and experiences that inform and inspire audiences around the world every day.

Founded in 2015

Bangalore, Karnataka, IND

10001+ employees

https://newscorp.com/

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