Abbott: Category Manager Procurement Marketing in Illinois, US

Category Manager Marketing Procurement

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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Responsibilities

Responsible for managing categories within Marketing Procurement. Current scope of responsibilities is global and includes over $150MM of Marketing/Advertising spend.
•    Understands business requirements and challenges; including priorities, must win battles and key value drivers. Transforms this understanding into solutions and the category sourcing strategies
•    Confirms business objectives, challenges, projects, requirements and expectations and translates into category strategic planning processes and solutions
•    Provide the business compelling category and sourcing insights to contribute to business strategies
•    Drives Value Creation: Identifies specific cost improvement opportunities and presents them to the marketing leadership for prioritization, resourcing and implementation; aligns with regional teams on the implementation plans and drives execution and adherence to the strategy
•    Own and measure cost improvement targets and projects. Report out to the key business stakeholders as appropriate
•    Enable supplier evaluation processes and KPIs definition and monitoring
•    Research supply base and industry / marketplace
•    Conduct analysis on industry, regional and divisional requirements and suppliers
•    Lead the development of benchmarks globally and understand marketing category industry dynamics through agencies capabilities sessions, attendance of industry related workshops, reading publications and discussions with other industry peers in order to bring best practices
•    Guide stakeholders (internal and external) on how to structure and implement RFQs/RFIs/RFPs to obtain best-in-class supplier capabilities
•    Lead complex RFQs/RFIs/RFPs
•    Provide support during the vendor screening and vendor selection process
•    Develop and drive fact-based negotiation strategies with high profile vendors within assigned categories
•    Ability to work with various legal and business functions to execute Master Service Agreements and Statements of Work between Abbott and suppliers
•    Recommend process improvements to streamline for efficiencies
•    Communicate issues to leadership while driving for resolution
•    Utilize technology and tools effectively

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