Aimbridge Corporate - Director Category Management

The Director of Category Management is responsible for leading strategic procurement efforts to efficiently and effectively enable business units and functional partners to maximize the value they receive from suppliers to meet their objectives. The Director will work with business units to lead centralized sourcing and procurement efforts. This will include working with the internal stakeholder from initial need identification to final goods. Specifically, this role will be responsible for the following process: supplier identification, supply analysis/strategy, sourcing execution, contract negotiation, national programs implementation and monitoring, and ongoing performance management and improvement.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business or equivalent experience.
• 10 years of previous experience in Global Sourcing, Supply Chain or Procurement.
• Negotiating skills
• Proficient with MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Ability to communicate professionally with people at all levels of the organization and external contacts
• Solid decision making skills
• Must be able to evaluate and select among alternative courses of action quickly and accurately.
• Must work well in stressful, high-pressure situations.
• Must be effective in handling problems in the workplace, including anticipating, preventing, identifying and solving problems as necessary.
• Must be effective at listening to, understanding, and clarifying the issues raised by co-workers and guests.
• Must be able to work with and understand financial information and data, and basic arithmetic functions.
• Must maintain composure and objectivity while under pressure.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinates and oversees company Procurement with a view towards reducing costs while improving the overall quality of purchased goods.
• Engages internal stakeholders in order to understand business objectives and desired outcomes.
• Develops and implements category strategies and plans to enable spend leverage and competitive pricing, quality, delivery and risk management with the supply base.
• Closely links Procurement performance with business needs.
• Development of benchmarks and metrics including vendor compliance scorecards to set baseline standards and review for improvement opportunities.
• Monitor and manage supplier service performance and ensure sourcing decisions are consistent with established sourcing strategies, with ability to problem-solve effectively.
• Identifies and develops new/current suppliers who have the capacity and capability to meet the cost, quality and service needs of the business.
• Identifies and generates tracking and compliance reports needed to monitor Program usage, spend history, supplier performance metrics.
• Negotiates various multi-year agreements.
• Partners with Legal/Contracts in the contract administration of all third party agreements, etc.
• Support internal procurement activities related to contracting, transactional purchasing, supplier management, etc.
• Build strong business relationships allowing sourcing to increase its influence over total category spend.

PROPERTY INFORMATION:
Aimbridge Hospitality is a leading, global hospitality company with a growing hotel portfolio representing more than 1,500 properties in 50 states and 23 countries. As a top hospitality employer, we are a great place to unlock your future, providing unparalleled opportunities for you to reach places in your career you might have never imagined were possible - more opportunities to help create memorable experiences, ways to succeed, and great people to inspire you. Aimbridge Hospitality is based in Plano, TX, with additional corporate offices in Atlanta, Calgary, Fargo, Puerto Rico, San Clemente, and Washington D.C. Aimbridge EMEA has offices in Birmingham and Glasgow, UK, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Aimbridge LatAm has offices in Monterrey, Mexico.

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