Manager, Category Management – Marketing & Promotions

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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.

Global Supply Management (GSM) is responsible for helping American Express maximize its purchasing power, of which over $3B is focused on the marketing and promotions (M&P) category. The Category Manager role is to help develop and grow relationships with business partners to understand objectives, key priorities, and opportunities.  Additionally, they will develop strategic, forward-thinking plans with multi-year value generating initiatives to enable business success. This is a global role supporting all American Express customer segments across multiple sub-categories such as creative, media, print, and marketing services.

The successful candidate will develop and growth of 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:

• Lead the development and growth of strong relationships with business partners to gain business unit knowledge, understand goals, and help identify issues and potential opportunities (e.g., influence requirements, educate business how to capture the most value from supplier relations); with a customer first mindset and strategy.
• Develop strategic, forward thinking global category plans with multi-ear value generating sourcing initiatives to enable the business success.
• Bring external insights, innovative ideas, and an enterprise view on market trends, competitive landscape value generation and strategic sourcing opportunities.
• Create strategy on best practices around supplier and services based on both internal conditions and plans as well as industry trends.  This includes but is not limited to price, scope, performance and right sourcing.
• Build strong partnerships with select strategic suppliers and manage them effectively.
• Develop a category review cycle to refresh strategy and ensure alignment with business partners on a regular basis.
• Monitor total spend across the business to leverage global spend where applicable.
• Act as a point of contact for select business partners.
• Ability to travel 10%
  
  

Minimum Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of exten