Sr Consultant, Procurement Category Management

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

As a category manager leader, you'll be responsible for managing complex categories, leading the category/supplier segmentation and strategy development efforts, supporting the development of the procurement strategy to include business alignment and influence, and driving the category strategy through the Insurance Services Team to ensure contracts execute in alignment to the strategy. 

This role will lead Insurance Services Team and all associated categories, including Experts, Origin & Cause, Engineering, Accident Reconstruction etc. while maintaining lowest total cost and highest quality and service.   

 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Formal leadership responsibilities for 2 - 4 associates 

• Support the team’s development of category strategies which maximize customer value leveraging a continuous improvement structure. 

• Contribute to the development and on-going maintenance of training and templates to support team development. 

• Implement and promote transformation program with a strong communication plan to achieve a structured and resilient supply chain. 

• Develop and implement cost-based reduction strategies capable of delivering annual target savings. 

• Execute annual cost savings, cash improvement and action plans to deliver the corporate and business objectives for year over year improvement.    

• Monitor the use of appropriate KPI’s to measure and improve the effectiveness of the key elements of the category strategies. 

• Responsible for supporting supplier partnerships through activities such as, identifying alternative suppliers, risk mitigation, performance management and category innovation. 

• Idea generation for new innovations (end to end) in their category to make sure it meets the timeline, includes critical terms and conditions, minimizes risks, leverages marketplace shifts and maximizes value. 

Compensation grade H3

Job Description Summary

Procuring goods and services necessary to successfully run and grow our business is critical. Whether working to enable the processes that support buying decisions or finding the best supplier, price or contract terms, we bring expertise, skill and talent to the task. If you are collaborative, a top-level communicator, highly ethical and have the ability to manage key relationships by providing outstanding service, we want to know more about you!

As a Senior Consultant, you'll be responsible for finding and acquiring goods and services that deliver long-term value for Nationwide. We'll count on you to find ways to enhance processes and drive efficiency. You'll have opportunities to advise business units on the acquisition of complex, specialized and highly technical products and services, including SAAS software licenses, offshore outsourcing, Marketing, Employee Benefits and more.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Partners and collaborates with multiple Business Partners, Finance, Technology and other Procurement team members to manage new, complex sourcing requests, current contract pipelines for multimillion dollar categories and vendor agreements.  Work with reporting teams to develop data analytics and make changes to Procurement policy and procedures to ensure a predictable, easy-to-follow and efficient procurement process.

• Conducts extensive, continuous industry research and benchmark analysis within a defined spend category. Establishes a detailed category strategy for a highly tech