Introduction
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Your role and responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Responsible for creating catalogs for high-transaction and/or preferred suppliers for goods and services, increasing these suppliers' usage, reducing lead time, and minimizing pricing issues, resulting in savings to Client and efficiency.
- Providing ad-hoc and regular reports
- Produce all needed inputs to calculate and present SLA's towards the client
- The primary responsibility of the Catalog Manager is to run, execute, and report on catalog projects.
- Support and manage Client's Catalog Program as directed by business. Proactively work with Client locations and Category Managers to develop and maintain catalogs. Such activities will aid in reduction of leakage, decreased lead time, and other efficiencies for Client.
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- Upon implementing a catalog, the Catalog Manager will continually review catalogs to determine the best methods for increased effectiveness (increasing the percentage of catalog selection as part of the supplier's overall transactions with Client).
- General, review and distribute monthly reports. Metrics include, received from reporting representative:
- PO Lines: Catalog vs. Non-Catalog
- Catalog Supplier Lines: Catalog Selected vs. Not Selected
- Number of Non-Catalog Suppliers
- Support Guided Buying implementation and management related tasks
- Consulting with Delivery teams and Client Procurement teams to find Catalog opportunities
- The Catalog Manager must continually evaluate the personnel needs of the program, including:
- Understand current processes and tasks
- Determine the time these tasks take to perform
- Create efficiencies to reduce task times, enabling the team to support more catalogs with the same headcount
Typical Activities
- Initiate contact with suppliers, buyers and business on opportunities
- Communicate process improvement recommendations to procurement program
- Review transactions and identify catalog opportunities
- Development relationships with all locations to understand buy desks and opportunities for catalogs
- Support catalog implementations for new sites
- Perform monthly catalog reviews
- Track and communications for upcoming catalog expirations to owners
- Communicate necessary catalog assessment items (e.g., effectiveness to buyers, usage opportunities to purchasing users, etc.)
- Notify business users of new catalogs
- Review monthly reports from Catalog Program (effectiveness reports, items not in catalog) and work with category management and suppliers for improvement
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
Systems
- Catalogue systems (eg SAP, Hubwoo, Ariba, Orcale etc.)
- Purchasing Systems
- Purchasing Policy
- Catalogue Policy
- Business Process, Corporate Policy (compliance & completeness) & Procure to Pay Data Flows
- Catalog Management
- Category Management
- Supplier Markets and Analysis
- Sourcing Strategy and Tactics
- RFP Development
- Contract Management
- Bachelor's degree in business or related field
- 3 - 5 years of progressive experience in purchasing, sourcing and spend analysis
- Experience with Sourcing and Contract Management Tools
- Strong analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills
- Strong written and verbal skills enabling effective communication with all levels of management
- Individual must be self-motivated with great follow-up skills and be able to work independently
- Strong organizational skills required to coordinate and manage multiple cross divisional work processes, projects and teams.
ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT
The IBM Finance organization is responsible for driving enterprise performance and transformation. We are the financial stewards of IBM, delivering IBM's financial strategy, developing new business models, and mitigating enterprise risk. Do you have a passion for creating business value? Join our team in accounting, financial planning, pricing, business controls, tax, treasury, business development (acquisitions & divestitures), and global financing.
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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
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