Category Manager, Direct Purchasing – GIFT

Overview Lead tender processes for the category: understand requirements, identify value-analysis levers, define the supplier panel, evaluate offers, negotiate, make recommendations and select awards. Support service performance to accompany the business (quality, supply chain, etc.). Define and drive the supplier panel strategy: identify competent market players as an expert of the upstream value chain; set and uphold the appropriate level of requirements with suppliers; ensure continuous impr…