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Category Manager
Job Summary
Manages categories with some cross-functional and regional scope.Accountable for building and creating the category plan and managing the plan closely with leadership. May support both regional and global category management functions.
Responsibilities
Negotiations
- Partners with Regional Procurement, business leaders, and other key stakeholders to execute capital and operational purchases that deliver cost savings and reduce supplier lead times and improve vendor performance
- Ensures appropriate supply agreements are in place and guides internal teams how to monitor adherence to the terms of the agreement
- Aligns with internal customers regarding best negotiation positions and provide stakeholders with a balanced view of contract risk and liabilities
- Directly engages suppliers at the appropriate levels to influence the best outcome for Equinix that meets or exceeds the business requirements
Category Strategy
- Utilizes a global perspective in determining and executing on category strategy
- Develops a vendor management strategy to reduce and consolidate global vendors for the category
- Develops, communicates and executes against consistent global procurement strategies and best practices
- Establishes procurement goals, metrics, and work plans to meet operational objectives
- Contributes to spend category management strategies and action plans
- Monitors and maintains full industry and market knowledge of category, suppliers, best practices, competitive landscape, etc.
- Communicate and collaborate with all key stakeholders to ensure alignment of the overall strategy
- Communicate and implement strategy effectively throughout the relevant teams
Cost Savings
- Drives and delivers cost savings opportunities aligned with organization commitments
- Develops cost savings proposals and interacts closely with suppliers, and internal customers, to achieve the cost savings
- Creates and maintains cost forecasts (reduction or increase) and cost-tracking for the category
Supplier Management
- Leads the supplier management end-to-end process
- Builds and maintains supplier relationships and drives improvement in the areas of cost, risk, and quality
- Identify and mitigate supplier risks in the areas of financial, capacity, location, single sole source, spend, and revenue, etc.
- Educates suppliers on the mechanics of doing business with Equinix
- Identifies and resolves various supplier management problems
- Supports selection of new suppliers
- Acts as point of escalation for suppliers when needed
Contract Management
- Responsible for all relevant documentation execution including contract SOW signature, supplier certification including insurance & ISO documents
- Partners with Legal on the contract lifecycle
- Works with business partners to develop and agree SOW, business and commercial requirements
- Negotiates contract details with suppliers
- Manages business requirements for Order Management & Delivery team
- Initiates supplier creation in the Source to Pay systems
Qualifications
- Relevant experience preferred
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
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