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Your Role and Responsibilities

IBM is looking for a self-driven and highly motivated procurement category manager with proven experience to join our IBM Procurement Services team for one of IBM's key clients in Germany.

As IT Category Manager, you will own and lead projects, including but not limited to providing category insights to assist and maintain in their strategy development.

You would need to independently run larger scale procurement projects requiring independence of thought, strong stakeholder management skills and advanced negotiation and support periodic key stakeholder meetings with client to lead and review category strategy and activities.

A sneak peek into this role:

• You will have network with leading class sourcing professionals to support your role and career path

• You will own primary responsibility to achieve client success against all contractual commitments at a category level

• You will assist our clients with strategic sourcing and engage budget holders in strategic procurement strategies to maximize ROI from the investment, appropriate levels of service and compliance with procedures and ensure that professional best practice is achieved

• You will be responsible for on-going category management activities including driving supplier performance, demand management savings, and increasing category compliance

• You will communicate and negotiate with clients and suppliers through all levels of organization, primary interface to key category client stakeholders

• You will build and maintain open and transparent relationships with business colleagues that contribute to mitigating change resistance

• You will gather and analyze data to provide insights that support decision(s)

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

What you will bring to the team:

• Strong decision-making skills and demonstrated negotiation expertise

• Supplier relationship management expertise and client facing skills

• Proactive character and team player attitude

• High levels of personal drive, initiative, and commitment to business goals

• Fluent German (and English) and strong communication skills

• Minimum 5 years of Category Management experience (or 7 years of Strategic Sourcing experience) in IT Category

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with the following are bonus points, but not necessary, you can learn them at IBM:

• Experience with dashboards and reporting tools in general

In return we provide you with:

• A chance to gain knowledge of procurement process as implemented on the IBM P2P solution, and the general IBM Procurement process

• Dynamic, diverse, inclusive, and supporting environment

• Professional, skill - growth opportunities, reskilling possibility

• Access to worldwide leading technologies

• Agile office area

• Hybrid working model

• Competitive compensation and benefit package including healthcare

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