Senior Procurement Category Management Specialist

As the Senior Procurement Category Management Specialist, you will manage relationships across direct spend categories, serving as a key liaison between procurement, category management (both in-market and above-market), and business stakeholders. You will play a critical role in optimizing sourcing strategies, including supplier selection, pricing, contracting, and ongoing supplier performance management. You will leverage global and local sourcing strategies, adapting them to meet evolving business needs. As a trusted partner, you will contribute to the development and execution of category strategies, identify value creation opportunities, and lead cross-functional initiatives that drive business impact. This role also focuses on proactively identifying and resolving supply risks, operational gaps, and scope-of-work challenges across business, supplier, and factory environments, ensuring continuity and effective execution. You will actively engage in cross-functional innovation and ideation efforts, communicating improvement opportunities, market trends, sourcing constraints, and risk mitigation strategies tied to key projects. Additionally, you will serve as the primary point of contact (POC) for Oscar projects and support KPI tracking and reporting for monthly MORs, helping to strengthen overall procurement performance and strategic outcomes.