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Love's Travel Stops · 2 days ago

Category Manager - Truck Care

Oklahoma City, OK

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

5+ years exp

Love's Travel Stops is a family-owned and operated business headquartered in Oklahoma City, focusing on providing value to professional drivers and the traveling public. The Category Manager is responsible for driving commercial value through category management activities, managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, and developing sourcing strategies.

Retail

Responsibilities

Enables Love’s to efficiently and effectively maximize the value they receive from suppliers

Ensures all legal documents are in place for each supplier, including NDA, Master Supplier Agreements, and Product Agreements

Leads and conducts the RFP process, bid analysis and review, contract negotiations, and blanket purchase agreement creation

Identify and realize cost-savings and cost-reduction opportunities

Use spend analysis to develop ideas for cost savings initiatives within assigned categories

Evaluate potential cost improvement opportunities, document with business case and champion change in support of department/company initiatives

Minimizes risk of supply disruption

Identifies supply and supplier issues. Analyzes market intelligence to assess root cause, improvement opportunities, and associated risk

Develops solutions and gains consensus to resolve supply issues

Builds strategic relationships

Builds relationships with supplier contacts and identifies candidate suppliers to be considered for strategic relationships

Builds and maintains collaborative relationships with Food Service team members and leadership to collectively identify business drivers, process improvements, and value creation opportunities

Understand company’s goals and build supplier relationships as needed to support those goals

Monitors purchasing performance

Monitors supplier quality and supplier performance and completes supplier scorecards

Qualification

Category managementData analyticsNegotiation skillsSupply chain managementProcurement strategiesERP systemsMicrosoft OfficeCommunication skillsOrganizational abilities

Required

Bachelor's Degree in supply chain management or a business-related field preferred

5-8 years of Supply Chain, Finance, or Operations work experience

Understanding of category management and procurement strategies

Understand and function effectively in a team environment

Experience working with Truck Care/Truck Parts categories of spend

Effective, proven negotiation skills

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Enhanced understanding of data driven spend analytics and data visualization (Excel, Power BI, or similar)

Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Procure-to-Pay systems

Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Office suite required

Ability to learn new software applications and computer programs

Ability to type efficiently and accurately

Comfortable handling multiple interruptions and adjusting priorities throughout the workday while meeting deadlines

Ability to communicate effectively (both orally and in writing) with diverse individuals and to consistently handle interpersonal situations in a professional and respectful manner

Excellent memory and organizational abilities

Requires prolonged sitting, some bending and stooping

Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator

Requires normal range of hearing and vision

Possible evening/weekend work