Category Management GPO

Key accountabilities:
▪ Collection, consolidation and translation of 
business, leadership and functional needs in the 
context of category management and SRM (e.g. 
goals and objectives, focus areas, strategic topics, 
innovation and risk factors)
▪ Central representation of the global category 
management team and category management as 
subject matter before leadership, across P+ 
functions incl. the broader GPO team and acting 
as a counterpart to client’s category governance 
function (SPOC role)
▪ Development, content creation and 
orchestration of all central category 
management and innovation & control 
meetings and comms channels (e.g. Category 
pillar call, uniting the leads, global category 
council)
▪ Steering, orchestration and standardization of 
category planning activity and governance of
the deliverables, i.e. provision of templates and 
data, establishment of uniform approach to 
planning and documentation, alignment, formal 
communication and distribution, change 
management and adoption 
▪ Identification and definition of process 
improvements within category management and 
across the whole value chain (e.g. approval flows 
and escalations, ways of collaborating and 
communicating, project planning, preferred 
suppliers and SRM programs etc.)
▪ Identification and definition of organization / 
operating model improvements within category 
management and across auxiliary functions (e.g. 
distribution of resources and skill, geographical 
capacities, reporting line and team structure 
optimization, roles and responsibility fine tuning, 
etc.) 
▪ Identification of technological improvements as 
well as support with technical roll-outs, 
configuration, enablement, adoption and 
optimization of tools and digital processes (e.g. 
SynOps Workflow, Ignite Spend Platform, various 
dashboard solutions, general data availability and 
accuracy, etc.)
▪ POC and support for account wide initiatives
that involve category management, SRM or a 
related delivery function (e.g. superlative career 
experience, supervisory org and job family clean 
ups, budgeting, transformation planning, SI&S 
topics, etc.)
▪ Continuous support to leadership and Category 
Directors with escalations, adHoc topics and 
urgent queries, hiring, backfills and capacity 
planning