Procurement Category Lead

A Procurement Category Lead is responsible for managing a specific category of goods or services within an organization's qualifications / What You Need To Succeed (Hiring manager provides) procurement function. Their role involves strategic planning, supplier management, cost optimization, and ensuring the timely delivery of goods or services while maintaining quality standards. Here are some typical responsibilities, skills, and requirements for a Procurement Category Lead:
Responsibilities:

• Category Strategy: Accountable for the development of category strategies that aligns with the overall company strategy. Monitor compliance and adherence to Group contracts, local agreements and all relevant Policies and Procedures.
• Business partnering: Work closely with key stakeholders in understanding needs, objectives and priorities to optimize total cost, quality and service. Acts as a subject matter expert for his/her own category portfolio and as a business partner to identify, develop and deploy best practice procurement, using technical expertise to create value in the business
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Drive and lead cross-functional teams to prepare and manage RFX processes, negotiations, contract creation and vendor management. 
• Supplier Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage relationships with suppliers, negotiating contracts, and ensuring supplier performance.
• Cost Optimization: Implement cost-saving initiatives and conduct price analysis to drive down costs while maintaining quality. Perform TCO evaluations and ROI analyses.
• Contracting: Prepare, redline and negotiate commercial contracts including master sales agreements, statements of works and amendments.
• Reporting: Drive supplier scorecards/ratings on an ongoing basis to measure supplier performance. Accountable for financial impacts of assigned categories, including savings reporting
• Change Management: Be an influencer and change management agent. Help developing approval workflows and procurement policies.

• Education: University Master’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or local equivalent
• Experience: 6+ years’ work experience handling Procurement related topics, ideally with exposure across different Procurement indirect categories (Facilities, Fleet Management, Travel, IT, Marketing, HR, Corporate Services)
• Procurement Certifications: Recognized procurement certification such as CPSM, CPM, CIPS or equivalent is a plus
• Software Proficiency: Proficiency in procurement software (eg: Coupa), enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and data analysis tools
• Leadership Skills: Ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams, influence stakeholders, and drive change within the organization
• Languages: Proficiency in English (reading, writing and speaking)
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build relationships
• Superior organizational skills, leading simultaneously multiple projects
• Strong analytical, accuracy, and problem-resolution skills

The Longer Story:

OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most.We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and preferred by professional developers around the world.

 

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 800,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.

Working at OutSystems

Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in excellent work towards our vision. Our culture is focused on building agility at scale, which allows us to operate with a high drive in a competitive market. At OutSystems, we operate like a startup at scale, where teams act as coordinated "startups" - a true Federation of Teams Culture. Our attributes define the core behaviors that fuel our innovation and foster agility at scale. We encourage our team members to collaborate, focus on results, act quickly, understand our business and reinvent themselves.

What do we have to offer you? 

• A company that continues to grow, change and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative. 

• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills. 

• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven as you – and a team that is global. 

• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.

• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!

OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.