Position: Contract manager/Category Lead
Location: Hybrid- Valparaiso, IN 46383
Duration: 12+ months Temp to Hire
Shift timing: Monday to Friday 8.00 am-5 pm(on site Tuesday, Wednesday, & Thursday)

Responsibilities:
- Establishing, leading/facilitating and supporting cross functional category management teams to develop and maintain category plans and ongoing category performance

• Developing deep knowledge and experience within assigned spend management responsibilities
• Developing spend/performance and external market analyses to monitor category performance and identify performance improvement opportunities
• Developing spend and savings/performance improvement forecasts to monitor progress and ensure goals are achieved
• Developing plans to capture identified opportunities
• Defining category requirements through collaborative efforts with respective stakeholder groups
• Collaborating with stakeholder groups to develop consensus on the appropriate category plans and priorities
• Leading performance improvement initiatives defined by the category plan including strategic sourcing and other performance improvement initiatives
• Establishing, leading/facilitating and supporting cross functional strategic sourcing/performance improvement teams as needed/prescribed by category plans to achieve savings and performance targets (e.g. reduce cost, improve quality and result in a lower total cost of ownership, meeting supplier diversity goals)
• Leading negotiations with suppliers as needed
• Maintaining critical supplier agreements including renewals, negotiation of terms, issue identification, tracking and resolution Supplier Management responsibilities include:
• Developing and maintaining supplier criticality ratings and managing resulting critical supplier relationships • Managing supplier relationships including conducting Quarterly Business Reviews with critical suppliers and

Client Executive Sponsors Stakeholder Management responsibilities include:

• Developing successful partnerships with key stakeholders / business partners to achieve desired results
• Developing and managing cross-functional category management and strategic sourcing teams as needed
• Collaborating with stakeholders to drive needed decisions to achieve desired results

Job Type: Contract

Salary: $90.00 - $100.00 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• Contract management: 10 years (Preferred)
• Construction Manager: 10 years (Preferred)
• Contract negotiation: 10 years (Preferred)
• Procurement: 10 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Valparaiso, IN

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