Procurement Category Manager

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•        Lead and actively manage a team of professionals with a focus on development and employee engagement.

•        Set clear direction and expectations; assign relevant goals and objectives; distribute workload evenly.

•        Actively manage the team – stay connected to work; conduct frequent development and career discussions; ensure professional growth plans are established and executed.

•        Develop and grow team by leveraging strengths, identifying gaps, and providing timely, consistent feedback and coaching.

•        Lead by example; create an environment that fosters open communication, high productivity, and increased engagement.

•        Team is clear on direction and how daily work impacts Key’s success.

•        High-performing team of Procurement professionals; leaders are developed, and movement of talent is consistent.

•        Employee engagement and overall morale is increased.

•        Manage portfolio across major spend categories with keen focus on cost savings and risk mitigation.

•        Establish and lead overarching strategy for procurement category that meets the needs of the business and drives savings.

•        Develop, refine, and manage strategic and tactical policies and procedures.

•        Anticipate needs of the business; continuously assesses opportunities for process improvements; translate into innovative solutions.

•        Manage portfolio across a balanced scorecard – i.e., savings, operational excellence, solution usage, supplier diversity, third party risk management.

•        Keep abreast of industry best-practices; recommend/implement as appropriate.

•        Team understands strategy and direction of assigned category; decisions are made in support of established priorities.

•        Optimal results are realized.

•        Risk to the business and to Key is minimal.

•        Develop strategic and collaborative relationships.

•        Collaborate with line of business partners (LOB) to develop strategic partnerships.

•        Understand strategic priorities and objectives of LOB and client group/s.

•        Visible and active partner; attends client meeting; is available to senior/executive clients as needed.

•        Promote “Procurement Brand” across Key.

•        Oversee vendor management strategy for assigned category, ensuring strong vendor performance and adherence to risk policies and procedures

• Category manager is viewed by LOB and Key leadership as knowledgeable and valued partner.

•        Procurement team is viewed as asset to organization.

•        Vendor relationships remain strong; risk to Key is minimized.

•        Drive cross-functional relationships within Procurement; coordinate activities across teams including Legal, TPRM, Solutions, etc.

•        Lead by example; be an accessible and reliable resource and coach across entire Procurement team.

•        Sense of “one team” flourishes; interactions are smooth.

•        Team feels connected and engaged; performance/morale increase.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

•        Bachelor’s Degree; 10 years minimum of relevant, professional experience

•        Ability to collaborate with and influence the most senior leaders in the organization.

•        Possess level of professional savvy to influence others and drive change, executive presence.

•        Demonstrated leadership; viewed as valuable resource within and outside Corporate Procurement.

•        Advanced communication skills – written, oral, presentation; ability to coach others to enhance communication skills.

•        Demonstrated ability to act as strategic advisor and identify holistic business solutions regarding procurement and spend.

•        Proven ability to develop and implement strategies to improve/maintain cost effective delivery.

•        Ability to lead, actively manage and professionally develop a multi-level team of professionals.

•        Ability to proactively support clients based on in-depth understanding of their business and industry best-practices.

•        Possess expert technical knowledge in assigned support area, advanced business acumen.

•        Knowledge of banking industry.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•        MBA Preferred.

•        Experience managing others.

ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES

•        Developing Self, Staff & Others:  Accurately assess and coach to strengths and developmental needs of your direct reports; share knowledge, insights, and experiences to help others develop. Develop your direct reports through actionable and timely feedback; address developmental issues quickly and ensure that your direct reports are exposed to new and challenging assignments. 

•        Accountability:  Keeps promises and honors commitments; Accepts responsibility for mistakes and failures and learns from them; Honors commitments and demonstrates open, honest communication.

•        Effective Collaboration:  Identifies and involves the right stakeholders to make decisions and maximize results; Readily shares information, knowledge, best practices, and ideas with teammates; Leverages opportunities and capabilities across the team to accomplish goals; Attentive and active listener; has the patience to hear people out; can accurately restate the opinion of others even when he/she disagrees.

•        Client Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external clients; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with and gains their trust and respect.

•        Business Acumen:  Knowledgeable about industry and current, possibly future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting her/his business and organization; possess institutional knowledge and technical savvy.

•        Problem Solving:  Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answers.

•        Drives for Results:  Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; relentless focus on execution; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

•        Organizational Agility: Knowledgeable about how organizations work; knows how to get things done both through formal channels and the informal network; understands the origin and reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures; understands the cultures of organizations.

•        Strategic Agility: Anticipates opportunities and challenges; seeks proactive strategic communications opportunities; creatively solves problems; creates competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans; anticipates future internal trends.

•        Leading Change:  Effectively navigates and embraces change; exhibits an openness of new ways of doing things and an adaptable, continuous improvement mindset; Makes quality decisions in a timely manner; sometimes with incomplete or ambiguous information and under tight deadlines/pressure; Provides appropriate, proactive and candid communication to team members, even with incomplete information; Re-focuses the organization in response to new strategic directions; Leads effectively in an environment of internal and external change; promotes an understanding of change among leaders. 

•        Conflict Management:  Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities, reads situations quickly, good at focused listening, can hammer out tough agreements.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $110,000 to $120,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

Please click here for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.

Key has implemented a role-based Mobile by Design approach to our employee workspaces, dedicating space to those whose roles require specific workspaces, while providing flexible options for roles which are less dependent on assigned workspaces and can be performed effectively in a mobile environment. As a result, this role may be Mobile or Home-based, which means you may work primarily either at a home office or in a Key facility to perform your job duties.

KeyCorp is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected category.

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