Director, Category Management - Marketing & Promotions

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Within American Express, Global Supply Management (GSM) is responsible for helping Amex maximize the purchasing power of over $11B of third party spend. We provide strategic consultation to the business and provide end-to-end procurement services. We maximize the purchasing power of the Company to drive the best value from our supplier base which then frees up investment capacity for the Blue Box. GSM together with our business partners manages the supplier strategy for the Company, identifying and on-boarding new suppliers, realizing significant cost saves and revenue generation relating to working with Global Commercial Services and Global Merchant Services to increase billings and merchant coverage and ensuring an optimal user experience for Amex employees and suppliers.

Strategic Sourcing and Business Enablement (SS&BE) is responsible for helping Amex maximize its purchasing power with third parties, of which over $3B is for the marketing and promotions (M&P) category. This is a global role supporting all Amex customer segments across multiple sub-categories such as creative, media, print, experiential, marketing technology, and other key marketing services.

Your mission: 

Develop and grow relationships with business partners to understand objectives, key priorities, and opportunities while leading a cross-functional team to develop strategic, forward-thinking strategies with multi-year value generating initiatives to enable business success.  

Responsibilities will, at a high level, include:

• Own the strategic vision and roadmap for select M&P sub-categories with multi-year value generating sourcing approaches to enable the business success including relationship development with business partners to gain business unit knowledge, understand goals, and identify issues and potential opportunities.
• Seek and leverage external insights to drive innovative ideas and an enterprise view on market trends, competitive landscape value generation, and strategic sourcing opportunities.
• Develop best practices around supplier and services based on both internal conditions and plans as well as industry trends.  This includes, but not limited to, price, scope, performance and right sourcing.
• Cultivate deep partnerships with internal teams throughout the Blue Box, including Marketing Leadership, Technology, Third-Party Lifecycle Management, Control Management, Legal, and more to ensure synchronization of priorities to meet shared goals.
• Build strong partnership with select strategic suppliers and manage them effectively.
• Manage and develop a high performing team.
• Ability to travel 10%

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Marketing Procurement – strong general manager, including strategic thinking, financial acumen, and negotiation skills with a deep understanding of market opportunities and broader business issues within Marketing and Promotions to be able to capitalize on market changes and future trends.
• Analytical thinker – strategic and creative thinker who likes to solve business and operational problems and identify clear action plans and drive re