Category Manager

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $75k - $80k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Turtle

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1923

🏗️ Construction

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Construction • Consulting • Logistics

Turtle is a global leader in electrical distribution, industrial automation, supply chain solutions, and energy management, providing one of the industry’s most comprehensive ranges of sustainable services and solutions. As a fourth-generation, family-owned Certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE) with over 100 years of history, Turtle's project teams bring together operations, logistics and product specialists to go beyond transactional customer relationships and deliver mission critical solutions you need today while preparing you to meet the high-stakes challenges of tomorrow. With decades-long vendor partnerships and versatile engineering capabilities such as cyber security, digital infrastructure modernization, and material management, our company is driven by radical collaboration, technical expertise, innovation, and sustainability.

📋 Description

• Manage national and/or regional Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) categories and sub-categories • Identify and engage internal stakeholders to capture category and commodity requirements • Enhance data and ensure supplier qualification and compliance • Develop and execute detailed category strategies • Conduct or support contract negotiations and supplier selection • Deliver category productivity through price, rebates, value analysis, and continuous improvement projects • Support Supplier Relationship Management strategy and quarterly supplier reviews for strategic suppliers • Provide subject matter expertise through direct experience and vendor collaboration • Implement Category Management and SRM strategies for assigned spend groups • Support site buying activities through sourcing agreements and commodity insights • Manage bid and award processes, including supplier identification and negotiation • Establish economic order quantities and evaluate market trends and economics • Communicate agreements with internal and external customers • Establish and maintain a capable, value-driven supply base • Control sourced-material costs through negotiations, agreements, market tests, bulk purchasing, forecasting, compliance management, and data analysis • Provide industry knowledge for assigned category and commodity groupings • Collaborate with Sourcing Managers, Site Managers, Buyers, and management • Travel to various supplier locations as required • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum five (5) years in a related field, operations, supply chain, or sourcing MRO-related materials • Knowledge of quality assurance philosophies, practices, and techniques • Four-year college degree desired; B.S. technical degree preferred • CPM preferred • Strong negotiation and planning skills • Self-motivated with ability to work with minimal day-to-day supervision • Strong data analysis skills • Ability to understand vendor contracts • Strong communication skills • Strong interpersonal skills • Ability to work in a cross-functional team environment • Good computer skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including Excel and Access • Ability to travel • Must live in a US state where Turtle has Integrated Supply business

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) plan • Health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • Paid holidays • Vacation • Employee negotiated discounts