Marketing Procurement Manager

ProcureAbility, a Jabil company, is the leading procurement services company, offering a range of solutions to elevate clients' procurement functions. The Marketing Procurement Manager will manage client projects, focusing on procurement assessments, strategic sourcing, and supply chain consulting activities.

Responsibilities:

• Engage directly with our clients on procurement and supply chain initiatives focused on improving efficiency, enhancing effectiveness, and increasing their ability to influence spending and deliver value across their organizations
• Manage and support client project workstreams, such as:
• Supply chain and procurement assessments
• Category Management and Strategic Sourcing
• Procurement strategy roadmap creation and capability development
• Scenario modeling and analytics
• A ProcureAbility Manager/Director also supports internal firm-building initiatives such as:
• Scoping, market, and supplier research
• RFx (development, management, and evaluation)
• Supplier evaluation & selection
• Negotiations
• Operational improvement & innovation
• Business development and practice development efforts, including but not limited to the development of knowledge capital, proposals, and RFP responses
• Benchmarking
• Client Research
• Employee Development
• Managing resources and managing clients or internal projects
• Lead teams of consultants, analysts, and other staff members to oversee client support and services

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience with a consulting firm is required
• 6+ years of experience in procurement, either consulting or as a practitioner
• Demonstrated procurement/category management experience supporting Marketing and Sales spend, including agency management (creative, media, shopper marketing, digital), media buying and planning, market research and consumer insights, and sales brokerage
• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent from a top-tier school or a school with a well-recognized procurement or supply chain program
• 3+ years of experience managing direct reports and directing project teams
• Proven track record of managing consulting projects to a successful outcome, working with ambiguity, unclear requirements, etc
• Demonstrated ability to manage engagement teams supporting clients in pursuit of strategic cost reduction initiatives, including opportunity assessment, sourcing strategy development & execution, supplier performance management
• Demonstrated ability to personally manage clients through all phases of the most typical strategic procurement initiatives, including sourcing opportunity assessment, functional procurement assessment, strategic sourcing (scope development, RFx development, proposal assessments & contracting), supplier performance program development, organizational transformation, etc
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage advisory engagements through all stages, proposal & contract development through final delivery, resolving problems, mitigating delays, and escalating issues as appropriate
• Must possess expert-level skills with financial assessments, data assessments, MS Excel (including pivot tables), creating charts and graphs, and creating MS PowerPoint presentations
• Must have the ability to travel to client sites on an as-needed basis
• Experience managing CPG marketing spend is strongly preferred