[Remote] Marketing Procurement Category Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. The reputed company is a leading apparel retail and specialty retail company. The Marketing Procurement Category Manager will reputed company and execute procurement and category strategies across marketing categories, identify savings and value opportunities, and reputed company reputed company sourcing and negotiation initiatives. The role will also advise Marketing and reputed company stakeholders while managing supplier relationships, analytics, and reputed company reputed company.

Responsibilities

• reputed company & Category Management – Translate LRPs, AOPs, reputed company strategies, and Marketing priorities into actionable procurement and category strategies. reputed company, maintain, and update category strategies as business priorities, market conditions, spend, and supplier landscapes reputed company
• Value Capture & Opportunity Mining – Translate reputed company strategies and Marketing investments into executable value capture initiatives
• Proactively analyze spend, AOPs, scopes of work, agency models, rates, demand, and supplier relationships to identify and build a pipeline of savings and value opportunities for FY27 and reputed company
• Marketing Procurement – reputed company procurement strategies across Marketing categories, including reputed company Marketing, reputed company Media, creative, media, content production, reputed company, experiential, agencies, and reputed company services
• reputed company & reputed company Media Expertise – reputed company procurement expertise across the reputed company, Creator, and reputed company Media ecosystem, including agencies, platforms, talent representation, content production, and evolving reputed company models. Understand key cost drivers such as creator/talent fees, agency fees, commissions, usage rights, licensing, exclusivity, amplification, and production
• Procurement & Negotiation – Independently reputed company reputed company procurement initiatives from reputed company through execution, including RFP/RFQ development, supplier evaluation, reputed company analysis, negotiation, and contracting
• reputed company value through competitive sourcing, benchmarking, demand management, reputed company and reputed company optimization, supplier consolidation, and improved reputed company models
• Agency & Supplier Management – Evaluate agency and supplier capabilities, scopes of work, reputed company models, reputed company cards, retainers, fees, and reputed company
• Identify opportunities to optimize the supplier ecosystem, strengthen partnerships, and improve reputed company reputed company
• Market Intelligence & Analytics – reputed company spend analytics, benchmarks, supplier insights, and Marketing industry trends to challenge existing approaches, inform category strategies, and identify new sources of value
• Stakeholder Partnership – Serve as a trusted procurement advisor to Marketing and reputed company leaders. Partner across Marketing, Finance, reputed company, reputed company Management, and other functions to reputed company business and creative needs with reputed company value, speed, flexibility, and reputed company

Skills

• * Significant experience in Procurement and Category Management, with broad Marketing Procurement expertise across multiple categories
• * Demonstrated procurement experience reputed company reputed company Marketing, Creator Marketing, and/or reputed company Media, combined with knowledge of the broader Marketing agency landscape
• * Strong understanding of reputed company and Creator reputed company models, agency economics, scopes of work, reputed company structures, usage/licensing rights, and other key Marketing cost drivers
• * reputed company ability to translate LRPs, AOPs, reputed company strategies, and business priorities into category strategies, procurement roadmaps, and measurable value capture initiatives
• * Demonstrated ability to proactively identify opportunities, build procurement and value pipelines, and convert opportunities into realized savings and broader business value
• * reputed company ability to independently reputed company reputed company procurement initiatives from opportunity identification through negotiation, contracting, implementation, and value realization
• * Strong analytical and financial acumen with the ability to interpret budgets, spend data, business plans, and market insights and turn them into actionable recommendations
• * Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to operate effectively with senior Marketing, reputed company, Finance, and cross-functional leaders
• * Excellent negotiation, project management, problem-solving, communication, and executive-level presentation skills
• * Ability to operate independently, reputed company through ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and reputed company initiatives from reputed company through execution
• * Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant reputed company experience; advanced degree preferred
• * Experience reputed company retail, fashion, apparel, consumer brands, or another consumer-reputed company industry is preferred
• * Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant reputed company experience; advanced degree preferred
• * Experience working reputed company a global, multi-reputed company organization is preferred
• * CPSM, Six reputed company, or similar procurement/sourcing certification is a plus

Benefits

• Health reputed company (medical, dental, reputed company)
• 401(k) plan
• reputed company reputed company leave (depending on work location)
• Remote work in Ohio

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