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Job Details

Job Title
: Category Manager
Required Skills
: airlines, catering/restaurants, Concur, Contracting with hotels, Procurement, Qualitative, quantitative, travel management companies, vendors
Location
Duration
: up to 5 months contract with possible extension

Job Description

Pay Range: $50-$55/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:
Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
401(k).
Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

Must Have:

Concur
Contracting with hotels, airlines, catering/restaurants, travel management companies
expertise in evaluating contractual terms and conditions
Superior quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
track record of negotiating large multi-year contracts and negotiating with various vendors essential for large-scale events
Indirect procurement categories such as finance, consulting
Workday

Profile: Experienced category manager (travel/entertainment) w/enterprise level experience and solid communication skills/negotiation and contracting. The indirect support is for the Finance area, but second to the travel/entertainment. Ideal to have workday/concur but not as crucial as the specific category experience.

Collaborate with business partners to drive value (30%):

  • Work within the procurement organization to provide dedicated support to our internal stakeholders.
  • Partner with business unit stakeholders to select vendors and determine workstreams where price competition would be beneficial and coordinate RFI’s, RFP’s and RFQ’s
  • Bring industry benchmarks, expertise, knowledge of trends, consultant, and other third-party data to bear in preparation for vendor selection and negotiation

Execute agreements and manage vendors (50%):

  • Lead vendor negotiations to ensure that client contracts at competitive prices and favorable terms with an emphasis on meeting space, hotels, audio visual, catering, finance, and potentially other indirect procurement categories.
  • Coordinate with legal, governance, risk & compliance and client business units for contract review and negotiation
  • Anticipate and manage contingencies and dependencies, ensuring proactive planning and real-time analytical thinking during intense periods of delivery
  • Own and manage key vendor relationships for appropriate issue escalation; Work with vendors to resolve performance and to bring about improvements where needed

Improve our support and performance (20%):

  • Utilize P2P tools like Workday, Concur and Strategic Sourcing to establish and help improve operational processes from project intake to invoice approvals
  • Practice continual improvement to strengthen the value proposition for internal clients and improve key performance as measured by KPIs that are important to key constituents

Required Details

Experience
: 6 Years
Travel Required
: No
Clearance Required
: No

Contact Details

Contact person
: Anil Kumar
Phone
: 678-203-2570
Website
: https://suntechnologies.com

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