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Job Summary

The Senior Category Strategist works with minimal supervision to develop, champion, implement, and communicate strategies aligned with business requirements, while maximizing optimized value from the overall spend. This position oversees many categories including, but not limited to IT, Facilities, HR, and Travel.

 

Essential Job Functions

• Plans and analyzes for multiple categories, using internal and external category spend data, market trends, and insights. - (40%)

• Collaborates with both internal and external procurement stakeholders, fostering long-term partnerships. - (20%)

• Develops and implements strategies to track and monitor the progress of initiatives across categories. - (15%)

• Manages the commercial issues relating to contracts, payments, and non-performance. - (10%)

• Drives project closure from a procurement perspective, escalating issues to ensure resolution. - (10%)

• Supports the procurement process for the development of RFX’s, supplier selection, and communication. - (5%)

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED.

• 5+ years of experience in budget cycles, lowest cost of ownership, lease/buy analyses, analytics tools such as OBIEE, Tableau, Expert level Excel user (pivot tables, Macros, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Business Analytics, Procurement, Project Management.

• 7+ years of experience in a banking, insurance, or other regulatory environment.

Skills

• Category Strategy

• Contract Management

• Financial Analysis

• Financial Budgeting

• Lease Analysis

• Microsoft Excel Macros

• Pivot Tables

• Project Management Essentials

• Risk Management

• Sourcing and Procurement

• Spend Analysis

• Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Reports To: Senior Manager and above

Direct Reports: 0

Work Environment

• Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid), 3 to 4 days per month are required in office if within 60 miles of a posted Bread Financial location.

Physical and Mental Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical, mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, absent undue hardship.

• Communicate/Hearing

• Communicate/Talking

• Stationary Position/Seated

• Typing/Writing

• Maintain focus in high pressure or fast-paced work environment

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

Salary Range (unless otherwise noted below):

$79,500.00 - $144,100.00

Full Salary Range for position:

California: $91,500.00 - $180,100.00

Colorado: $79,500.00 - $151,300.00

New York: $87,500.00 - $180,100.00

Washington: $83,500.00 - $165,700.00

Maryland: $83,500.00 - $158,500.00

Washington DC: $91,500.00 - $165,700.00

Illinois: $79,500.00 - $158,500.00

New Jersey: $91,500.00 - $165,700.00

Vermont: $79,500.00 - $144,100.00

Ohio: $79,500.00 - $144,100.00

The actual base pay within this range may be dependent upon many factors, which may include, but are not limited to, work location, education, experience, and skills.

Bread Financial offers medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability) to eligible associates (regular full-time associates scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more) and their spouses/domestic partners, and child(ren) under the