Category Manager II

🔥 0 minutes ago

💵 $110.3k - $165.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Mortenson

5001 - 10000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

🏨 Hospitality

🏗️ Construction

Healthcare • Hospitality • Construction

Mortenson is a U. S. -based, top-25 builder, developer and provider of energy and engineering services committed to helping organizations move their strategies forward. Founded in 1954, Mortenson has operations across North America and offers a broad portfolio of integrated services including construction, real estate development, and energy solutions. By ensuring that its customers' investments result in high-performing assets, Mortenson serves as a turnkey partner focused on the business success of its clients.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement category strategies for assigned categories • Identify and engage internal stakeholders across engineering and operations to capture category requirements • Assess category opportunities, including spend segmentation, category maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis • Develop sourcing strategies detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits • Adapt strategies as business, market, and economic environments change • Support annual category reviews with updated projects, metrics, strategy, and risk mitigation strategies • Maintain leadership-level relationships with key suppliers • Conduct supplier business reviews • Monitor supplier quality and delivery performance • Leverage supplier relationships to assist buyers with expedites • Manage financial results for assigned categories and develop strategies to achieve financial and initiative goals • Develop pricing strategies for project proposals • Lead monthly and annual category financial reviews with project information, metrics, forecasts, and strategy • Initiate and conduct supplier contract negotiations • Define negotiation strategies, supplier profiles, commercial targets, switching costs, and total cost of ownership • Monitor market drivers including raw material pricing and availability, supplier capacity, industry disruptions, and new products • Forecast, report, mitigate, and recover commodity inflation • Build relationships across diverse backgrounds and organizational levels • Lead team members by example and provide coaching, feedback, and performance management • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge of construction processes, equipment and materials, purchasing processes and procedures • Negotiating, organizing, planning, verbal and communication skills • Strong strategic thinking, business acumen, and negotiations skills • Effective communication and presentation skills • Strong organization, planning and decision-making skills • Ability to influence without authority • Active listening skills and effective communication including an openness to diverse input and feedback • Ability to travel up to 30% • Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, construction management or equivalent combinations of technical training and/or related experience • Minimum 10 years of experience • Current driver’s license • Must be currently legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship for employment visa status

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug plans that includes no additional cost vision coverage • Dental plan • 401k retirement plan with a generous Mortenson match • Paid time off, holidays, and other paid leaves • Employer paid Life, AD&D, and disability insurance • No-Cost mental health tool and concierge with extensive work-life resources • Tuition reimbursement • Adoption Assistance • Gym Membership Discount Program • Incentive plan eligibility

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