Category Manager - IT

What You Can Expect

The primary responsibilities of the Procurement Category Manager are to manage end-to-end procurement activities for their category and lead cross-functional supplier qualifications for their assigned category. They will be responsible for securing total cost of ownership reductions for their assigned category, define global strategy, and work with other counterparts globally to execute the regional strategies.

Work Location: Bangalore
Work Mode: Hybrid (3 Days in office)

How You'll Create Impact

• End-to-end accountability for defining the category and supplier strategy with stakeholders and delivering year-over-year cost reduction within their category
• Responsible for the development and execution of global category strategies for IT Services, Hardware, Software, and Telecom. This role may be for one or several of the IT sub categories listed.
• Strategic interface with suppliers and accountable for building strong and strategic supplier relationships
• Understand supplier market dynamics/intelligence and use it as input into the strategy
• Monitor and report compliance to Source-to-Pay process for their category/suppliers
• Drive supplier selection according to strategy, develop supplier base, and identify new suppliers
• Ensure alignment, anticipate changes, and drive activities based on supply market changes and broader company/functional strategy
• Lead contract and price negotiations withs suppliers
• Create and update supplier list according to category strategy
• Work closely with key stakeholders, member organizations and corporate functions to develop effective cost reduction strategies and implementation plans.
• Identify and define procurement best practices both within and external to Zimmer Biomet and ensure that those best practices are implemented in their category

What Makes You Stand Out

• 5+ years of track record in Strategic IT Procurement
• Ability to develop high impact procurement strategies
• Previous experience with IT Category Management required
• Experience negotiating large and complex technology agreements
• Cost analysis and management
• Strategic thinking
• Negotiation skills
• Project management skills
• Leadership skills
• Internal stakeholder management
• Supplier relationship and management skills
• Excellent market information analysis skills and supply market knowledge
• Good conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work independently

Your Background

Required Skills

• End-to-end Strategic Procurement experience in IT category or sub-category
• Contract Management – Negotiations, signing contract agreements, driving RFP process.
• Cost Management - Cost analysis/ Expense analysis/ Spend analysis
• Internal (IT Leadership, Legal and finance for privacy) and External (Supplier/Vendor) stakeholder Management

Desired Skills

• Proficiency in MS Office Suite, especially Excel for analytics, is required.
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Prior experience working in US/North America/European markets or Multinational organizations is preferred
• Open for both IT (Hardware or Software or both). Non-IT category with strong global procurement experience
• Power Bi/Tableau for analytics are plus
• SAP Ariba is nice to have

Education and Experience Requirements

• Experience Range: 10+ Years
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline required
• Experience in a regulated environment preferred
• Specialized Procurement or related certification or training strongly preferred.
• Lean and/or Six Sigma certification or training preferred.

Travel Expectations

Must possess the ability to travel on a regular basis with overnight stays up to 25%. Occasional regional travel and global travel may be required.