Category Manager, Strategic Sourcing – Stores

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🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

🏖️ New Jersey – Remote

💵 $119k - $155k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Saks

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1924

🛒 Retail

👗 Fashion

🛍️ eCommerce

Retail • Fashion • eCommerce

Saks is a luxury retail company operating Saks Fifth Avenue, an iconic department store chain providing high-end fashion, beauty, and home decor products. They offer a wide range of designer clothing, accessories, shoes, and beauty products for men, women, and children both online and at physical locations. Saks frequently runs promotions and loyalty programs, such as gift card rewards on purchases and exclusive designer sales.

📋 Description

• Develop category strategies for Store Operations and Facilities/Construction • Conduct ongoing category reviews to identify future opportunities • Manage supplier performance and relationships • Lead multiple sourcing projects and develop sourcing strategies • Drive strategic improvements, operational targets, savings goals, and business strategies • Conduct total cost modeling and sensitivity/scenario analysis • Analyze and plan components of indirect spend categories • Use sourcing tools to refine and improve procurement processes and policies • Develop and manage business stakeholder relationships • Provide regular project status updates • Partner with Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, Legal, and other corporate functions • Review, revise, and negotiate contract language • Lead the contract renewal process • Own projects through completion • Help resolve procurement and vendor-related escalations • Report to the Director of Strategic Sourcing

🎯 Requirements

• BS/BA degree preferably in supply chain management, engineering, or business • 7+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing with experience in retail and facilities operations, supplies & services, construction/capital projects • Demonstrated capabilities of developing/implementing category strategies, leading sourcing projects, contract negotiations and authoring, and driving savings/value • Strong relationship-building, verbal and written communication, interpersonal, motivational, and influencing skills • Coordination across related disciplines and with key stakeholders • Experience coordinating teams, collecting insights, and constructively challenging team members with conventional thinking • Understanding of multi-step strategic sourcing processes, sourcing tools, and strategies • Experience sourcing and contracting for facilities services, restaurant operations, construction/capital projects • Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI) pertaining to retail and facilities operations • Experience in the luxury retail market • Formal Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package for all eligible full-time employees, including medical, vision and dental • Amazing employee discount • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Basic life insurance • Supplemental life insurance • Disability insurance • Additional voluntary benefits such as critical illness, hospital and accident insurance • Opportunity for career advancement • Dynamic fast paced work environment

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