Category Manager II, Indirect Procurement – Corporate Services
Gap Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Folsom • Ohio • United States
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About the role
- Execute category strategies, and achieve value targets (P&L, Revenue, Capital and Non-P&L) for the categories, as applicable.
- Create and manage a multi-year pipeline of projects that will deliver value year over year.
- Collaborate on developing actionable multi-year sourcing strategies and codify them into category playbooks that guide execution across the business.
- Own supplier relationships (performance management and contract negotiations).
- Partner with senior internal stakeholders across functions, procurement colleagues, and suppliers to drive results and facilitate complex change management across Gap Inc.
- Actively promote a competitive bid culture by applying advanced sourcing levers.
- Actively seek and apply industry best practices and innovative solutions to advance value creation.
- Leverage advanced digital tools and analytics (dashboards, AI-powered spend insights, eAuctions, CLM platforms) to drive sourcing decisions and value creation.
- Conduct category segmentation and supplier profiling to enable opportunity mining.
- Collaborate with peers and business stakeholders to identify additional white-space growth and efficiency improvement opportunities and devise sourcing strategies to execute them.
Requirements
- Passionate about procurement with experience in category management within a global organization.
- Preference for candidates with demonstrated expertise in Payments or Corporate Travel, or those with strong Technology or Management Consulting background.
- Not afraid to question status quo by asking “What If” and “Why Not”, and willing to get to the root cause of a problem, co-creating solutions, and executing them.
- Strong work ethic and accountability bringing discipline, ownership, and follow-through to every project, balancing attention to detail with a drive to deliver outcomes.
- Results-oriented with an ability to navigate an ambiguous environment to achieve high levels of performance and deliver sustainable results.
- Excellent written and oral communicator with the ability to lead with or without authority to influence stakeholders at various organizational levels and drive decision-making.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Retirement plans
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
category managementsourcing strategiessupplier performance managementcontract negotiationscategory segmentationsupplier profilingvalue creationproject managementanalyticschange management
Soft Skills
collaborationproblem-solvingaccountabilityattention to detailresults-orientedcommunicationinfluenceleadershipdisciplinecreativity