Category Management Specialist, Sr Staff (IT Strategic Procurement/Sourcing Professional)

Job Title: Category Management Specialist, Sr Staff (IT Strategic Procurement/Sourcing Professional)

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid 

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC 

 

Job Summary/Purpose

• The Senior Staff Category Management Specialist utilizes extensive supply chain, category management, strategic sourcing, contracting knowledge and experience to implement Supplier Commercial Excellence for IT sub-categories and/or business functions (Hardware, Information Security, IT Professional Services, Software, Telecom, Artificial Intelligence (AI) etc.) This position is responsible for executing the standard end-to-end procurement and supply chain processes of plan-strategy-source-perform, inclusive of category management activities across assigned categories and will operate across multiple cross-functional teams to leverage end-to-end value for an assigned portfolio of spend.

• The role is Supply Chain’s (SC) single point of contact and strategic lead for the placement of Entergy’s third party spend into the appropriate supply markets. Key interfaces for this position are internal business customers such as internal business units, Supplier Diversity, Tax, Finance, Risk Management, Safety, Human Resources, Legal external suppliers and industry organizations.

• The scope of this role may include but not limited to building & maintaining cross functional teams with the business to create prioritized sub-category profiles and business cases from plans, developing contracting strategies; executing strategic sourcing processes at enterprise and business function level; developing evaluations, managing negotiations, redlining and negotiating software licenses, implementing contracts, providing post-award contract management and oversight. The primary objective of this role is to create value through the supply chain in terms of safety, cost and performance.

 

Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Safety/Human Performance:
  • Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first; 
  • Utilize key tools, programs, and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors; 
  • Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.
• Incident Response:
  • Perform storm role duties as assigned through the Storm Assignment Management System (SAMS).

 

• Category Strategy:
  • Develop and execute category and subcategory strategies, checklist, manage spend and regularly track market trends, Ability to work strategically and tactically to deliver positive business results.
  • Category Processes:
  • Systematic process to review commercial, process, technical, risk management and sustainability strategies for product categories and subcategories.

 

• Contract Negotiation/ Drafting
  • Review and redline software license agreements (Cloud/ SaaS/ Perpetual licenses)
  • Draft IT service agreements
  • Lead the Request for Proposal process for IT Professional Services, Software, Hardware or Telecommunications

 

• Supplier Management:
  • Supplier management strategy in place, linked with supplier segment, category strategies, and business reviews to ensure supplier performance.
  • Supplier Base:Supplier portfolio is regularly reviewed based on price/performance and cost structure comparison.
• Optimization:
  • Recurrent effort to bundle purchasing and to forecast demand across departments/business units.

 

• Customer Engagement
  • Ability influence and work across Cross-functional teams and levels in the organization to optimize supply-chain, redesign-to cost and make-or-buy strategies.

 

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of th