Intel Technology Category Manager 

United States, California, San Jose 

537440218

As a global Category Manager, you will be responsible for the strategic sourcing and development of alltechnology purchases across Altera. Your strong influencing and negotiation skills will support quality and cost saving objectives. The position is responsible for leveraging spend across the business, creating and executing strategic cost savings projects and driving out cost. The position is responsible for maintaining and managing the company indirect buying process, ensuring associates are complying with the preferred Suppliers, while also leading the end-to-end contract management process and supporting aggressive working capital goals.

You will be responsible fordeveloping&executingcategory strategies for IT & TELECOM which result in overall cost reduction of the category spend and service/quality improvements.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following:

• Develops and executes category strategies, as well as drives supplier development through innovation and collaboration.

• Achieve year-over-year reductions in total costs of goods and services, while maintaining or improving supplier quality and service levels.

• Maintains advanced knowledge of industry and market dynamics, and knowledge of commodities to drive supply chain solutions ahead of Intel's needs.

• Leverages and applies strong understanding of contracting and negotiating, risk mitigation, and supplier relationship management to manage supplier relationships and provide sustainable cost, quality, availability, and technology solutions with adherence to procurement policies.

• Ensures that the respective category meets the business demand and cost requirements necessary for Intel to develop great products/services for its customers.

• Works closely with partner teams and suppliers to define standard and custom product requirements, influence design decisions to meet desired product/service demand and fulfil the business objective.

• Conducts periodic executive reviews of category sourcing strategy in partnership with internal teams/customers to shape strategic business objectives and account investments through aligned roadmaps.

• Collaborates with internal & external stakeholders to drive supply chain optimization, understand affordability, set cost targets and define cost reduction roadmaps through detailed understanding of supplier's financial targets, business objectives, and margins.

• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, rates, proportions, percentages. Ability to analyze and interpret data.

• Ability to utilize commercial software tools for analysis and project management.

• Negotiate tactics and strategies that result in cost savings and risk avoidance.