Associate Director, Procurement, Media Category Lead

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The Associate Director, Media Category Lead is responsible for development of a robust global category strategy aligned to achieving dynamic business outcomes. This role will engage closely and frequently with senior business partners in the Worldwide Commercialization Excellence (WCE) organization to understand strategic business objectives, develop a fit-for-purpose category strategy and drive business outcomes. This role is expected to have strong category expertise in Media & and knowledge of other Commercialization categories, as well as a deep understanding of the New Commercialization Model (NCM).

This role is also seen as a trusted advisor to senior Commercialization stakeholders across the enterprise and as a single point of contact for Commercialization-related procurement needs. This will require the Associate Director Procurement Media to have strong coordination, collaboration and partnership abilities within Commercialization Procurement and across other Procurement functional towers to ensure holistic support of the stakeholders.

It is necessary for this individual to understand the product lifecycle process and the archetypes that each product will fall into and have knowledge of the global value chain to provide strategic industry insights and identify potential opportunities that ultimately lead to a BMS competitive advantage.

Major Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Develop a global category strategy that is best in class, aligned to dynamic business needs, is relevant for global and market nuances as needed and deliver financial value

• Understand and capture business plans and budgets as needed to ensure global category strategies are fit-for-purpose and meet business needs, and are effectively supporting business outcomes such as product launch, in-line product growth, upcoming LOEs, and data and insights.

• Leverage knowledge of external supplier marketplace to curate supplier solutions for the business in alignment with business outcome needs.

• Engage with other Category Strategy Partners within Commercialization and across Procurement towers as needed to ensure alignment across categories to meet business needs and drive a holistic Commercial Procurement value proposition.

• Drive strong coordination with Procurement team and internal BMS partners to define buying channels, purchasing policies, and drive adherence to category strategies.

• Leverage deep category knowledge and external market ecosystems to develop a fit-for-purpose global category strategy that can meet regional and local needs and is aligned to product lifecycles.

• Lead and / or support major category initiatives within a multi-year plan including end to end process optimization, make / buy analysis and recommendations within a spend category and / or within a major business area to deliver strong financial efficiencies aligned to business targets.

• Develop implementation plans to activate strategies across regions, markets, and business units.

• Coordinate with dedicated market business partners to pull through relevant global strategies or develop tailored category strategies as needed to enable specific market needs and objectives.

Execute supplier relationship management (SRM) and drive supplier performance

• Oversee the rationalization and selection of suppliers that meet business requirements at the optimal total cost, with preferred supplier identification.

• Coordinate with other Category Strategy Partners to understand supplier performance across bus