Director of Global Sourcing, Marketing Category

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Job Description :

Position - Director of Global Sourcing, Marketing Category

Location - NYC - 1211 6th Avenue

Hybrid - 3 days in office

About News Corp
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across
a range of media, including news and information services, book publishing, and digital real estate services. Headquartered in New York, News Corp's activities are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

In the News Corp Global Sourcing Organization, our aim is to unlock value for News Corp to reinvest in what matters most. We do this by bringing speed, efficiency, and security to buying at News Corp and with all business units within. We partner deeply across News Corp’s business units to deliver solutions fit for purpose.

As a centralized organization operating in a high complexity environment, we bring one voice to stakeholders, suppliers and vendors to ensure the best outcomes.

Our organization fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement while providing opportunities for ongoing career growth and development. You will partner closely with key stakeholders to help shape and implement sourcing strategies related to your category.

This team is responsible for developing and driving holistic category strategies, managing stakeholder relationships, and bringing excellence to News Corp-wide sourcing, supplier, and supplier management. You will collaborate across teams to develop new procurement approaches and solve complex business problems.
 

You will lead strategic sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units to enable new initiatives to launch and scale rapidly. You are an expert practitioner in creating competitive environments, and have a strong bias for decision-making rooted in data and analytics. You routinely influence C-level supplier relationships and advise senior business leaders on innovative sourcing strategies that create sustainable, long-term partnerships. You are a highly effective communicator, and are able to articulate the value proposition of partnering with our sourcing group.
 

This role in particular focused on category leadership for the sub-category Marketing, under the Indirect Category umbrella.

Accountabilities
Category Management
● Lead the delivery of the annual YOY productivity savings & working capital impact across the category
owners; set preliminary vision/goals for the category assigned in first 90-days on the job based on
identified cost drivers
● Develop, execute, and implement a complete Category Strategy for the Marketing Procurement category, collaborating with key stakeholders, team members, and leaders affected by the respective category; Play
an integral role in the development of multi-year global category plans and strategies that drive supplier
consolidation and leverage spend across the organization while increasing spend under contract.
● Follow structured project management methods and principles to execute complex, long-term category
management and strategic sourcing initiatives
● Adopt/leverage the Category Performance framework and define metrics related to category performance
and continuously tracks them
● Prepare and execute clear, structured negotiations following the Global Sourcing and Procurement
Category Management and Strategic Sourcing methodologies
● Start/Run program level initiatives that can create benefits such as improving an existing process, execute
actions to increase diversity, etc.
● Manage Category card