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Senior Category Manager
Jones Lang LaSalle
Chicago, IL, United States
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Responsibilities:
• Creates and regularly maintains short, mid and long-term category strategies aligned with overall business strategy and objectives and departmental stakeholders. This includes developing TCO, should cost models, contract SOW, category KPI’s, negotiation strategies, category value enablers, and business case recommendations
• Advances strategic alliances with select partners to create and bundle new solutions leveraging supplier’s technology offering, with a keen focus on supplier development
• Develops key strategic relationships with suppliers and industry leaders, managing performance and providing the business with access to supplier technology innovation through collaboration and partnership
• Rationalizes supplier base and manages category-specific segmentation of technology service providers and supply partners, ensuring JLL have the best service provision available across the category to deliver value to our internal and external clients
• Conducts high level negotiations in support of technology sourcing strategies, alliance/joint ventures and co-development agreements
• Shares market intelligence, best practices and provides category expertise, advising on capabilities and best fit with the business’ technology supplier ecosystem
• Acts as the single point of governance for technology category supplier activity
• Provides functional leadership and peer group alignment, where appropriate and needed
• Applies ethical company standards and ensures Global Procurement policy is applied at all times
Requirements:
• Ability to negotiate technology agreements and have proven strategies within areas of responsible spend
• Proven ability to facilitate strategic supplier relationships and work with senior business executives and across procurement leadership
• Experience with joint ventures, alliances and/or other co-development related to supplier development
• Expertise in sourcing indirect corporate services and/ or technology products/solutions
• Ability to synthesize key recommendations from amounts of market intelligence
• Collaborative style with a focus on team work
• Strong ability to influence without authority
• Proven ability to deliver results in challenging environments
• Excellent inter-personal skills, organization skills, strong analytical ability
• Ability to work on a regional and global scale and across different time zones
• Excellent communication skills – oral and written
• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in relevant field
• Minimum 10 years of procurement-related experience
• MBA a plus
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