ProcureAbility, a Jabil company, is the leading procurement services company, offering a range of solutions to elevate clients' procurement functions. The Marketing Procurement Manager will manage client projects, focusing on procurement assessments, strategic sourcing, and supply chain consulting activities.

Responsibilities:

Engage directly with our clients on procurement and supply chain initiatives focused on improving efficiency, enhancing effectiveness, and increasing their ability to influence spending and deliver value across their organizations
Manage and support client project workstreams, such as:
Supply chain and procurement assessments
Category Management and Strategic Sourcing
Procurement strategy roadmap creation and capability development
Scenario modeling and analytics
A ProcureAbility Manager/Director also supports internal firm-building initiatives such as:
Scoping, market, and supplier research
RFx (development, management, and evaluation)
Supplier evaluation & selection
Negotiations
Operational improvement & innovation
Business development and practice development efforts, including but not limited to the development of knowledge capital, proposals, and RFP responses
Benchmarking
Client Research
Employee Development
Managing resources and managing clients or internal projects
Lead teams of consultants, analysts, and other staff members to oversee client support and services

Requirements:

5+ years of experience with a consulting firm is required
6+ years of experience in procurement, either consulting or as a practitioner
Demonstrated procurement/category management experience supporting Marketing and Sales spend, including agency management (creative, media, shopper marketing, digital), media buying and planning, market research and consumer insights, and sales brokerage
Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or equivalent from a top-tier school or a school with a well-recognized procurement or supply chain program
3+ years of experience managing direct reports and directing project teams
Proven track record of managing consulting projects to a successful outcome, working with ambiguity, unclear requirements, etc
Demonstrated ability to manage engagement teams supporting clients in pursuit of strategic cost reduction initiatives, including opportunity assessment, sourcing strategy development & execution, supplier performance management
Demonstrated ability to personally manage clients through all phases of the most typical strategic procurement initiatives, including sourcing opportunity assessment, functional procurement assessment, strategic sourcing (scope development, RFx development, proposal assessments & contracting), supplier performance program development, organizational transformation, etc
Demonstrated ability to effectively manage advisory engagements through all stages, proposal & contract development through final delivery, resolving problems, mitigating delays, and escalating issues as appropriate
Must possess expert-level skills with financial assessments, data assessments, MS Excel (including pivot tables), creating charts and graphs, and creating MS PowerPoint presentations
Must have the ability to travel to client sites on an as-needed basis
Experience managing CPG marketing spend is strongly preferred

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Marketing Procurement Manager