As a Global Sourcing - Category Manager within Global Supplier Services, you will spearhead the creation of long-term category sourcing strategy plans and oversee sourcing, contracting, and execution for third-party supplier expenditures across JPMorgan Chase Lines of Business for diverse Technology and Non-Technology spend categories. You will have the opportunity to cultivate relationships with U.S.-based Line of Business stakeholders and collaborate with sourcing leads in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Europe, the Middle East, and Africa regions, thereby enhancing your global collaboration skills.
Job responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of multi-year category and supplier spend management strategies within assigned categories
- Conduct in-depth cost and spend analysis to develop target savings & cost reduction initiatives
- Work with LOB clients and stakeholders to define requirements
- Identify qualified candidate suppliers; design and execute the competitive process
- Complete supplier due diligence
- Evaluate competitive offerings from suppliers and develop and present sourcing options that meet JPMCs business requirements
- Conduct commercial term negotiations; lead the contract development process
- Partner and collaborate with regional Sourcing colleagues; local, regional and global internal stakeholders; in-house Legal, Risk and Fice teams
- Maintain compliance with all policy and procedural guidelines
- Identify new service opportunities that address or anticipate client needs
Required qualifications, capabilities and skills
- Bachelors Degree required (or significant experience in Category Management)
- 4+ years experience in managing commodity or spend category spend (tech or non-tech)
- Commercial skill/strategic negotiation ability; strong knowledge of the key aspects of the RFI/RFP/RFQ and five step sourcing process; ability to understand value streams, cost drivers and how to break down cost structures
- Interpersonal ability to develop relationships and influence execute level stakeholders; ability to communicate effectively with internal sourcing and client stakeholders
- Thought Leadership determination to drive breakthrough thinking and continuous improvement; sets a personal example
- Market Research ability to conduct market/industry/supplier analysis and synthesize data into a consumable format
- Change Management experience and proven ability to drive change with management direction but without having to be prescribed to
- Project Management ability to develop, plan and execute projects and create remediation plans and actions with timely updates to management
- Business Strategy Alignment / Risk Management ability to understand business strategy and build plans to support it; knowledge of business risk factors and business savvy to minimize risk appropriately and communicate acceptance of risk factors when required.
- Technology Acumen advanced proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office Suite (especially advanced Excel) as well as SAP Ariba analysis
Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills
- MBA preferred
- Direct experience working with one or more of the following Spend Categories Consumer Business Operations Equipment, Consumer Hardware / Maintece, loan services, or other non-Tech categories
- Experience working with Proof of Concept (POC)
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or this Role Legal Acumen (i.e., strong understanding and proven experience in executing and amending complex legal Master Agreements and commercial agreement SLAs) is highly valued