Category Manager

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with safety. It’s the constant that empowers people to confidently move forward. It can fill a flight or sell out a stadium. It can care for a patient or graduate a class.

As a global leader in public safety and enterprise security, we create and connect the technologies that help to keep people safe where they live, learn, work and play. Our integrated technology ecosystem unifies critical communications, video security and access control, and command center software, enabling collaboration in more powerful ways.

At Motorola Solutions, we’re ushering in a new era in public safety and security. Bring your passion, potential and talents to a career that matters.

Department Overview

The Supply Chain and Procurement organization is a fast-paced and dynamic environment, delivering best-in-class communications equipment and solutions for customers around the world. We aim to be a trusted advisor to our business partners – providing innovative solutions at the best possible value for their sourcing needs.
Job Description

Motorola Solutions is building talent pipelines to meet future hiring demands. This is a pipeline role, while there is not an immediate opening, we want to build relationships with prospective candidates like you. If your background is a match to our requirements, we’ll follow up with an exploratory conversation.

Job Summary:

• Responsible for building category strategy to ensure operational efficiencies.

• Establishes a strong network and fosters collaboration with customers, suppliers, key stakeholders, and team members.

• Develop scenario plans for evolving environment within category.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of category strategy to provide resources on time, minimizing risk to customers and ensuring optimum price.

• Develop and maintain category plans that identify opportunities for operational efficiencies, drive cost savings, manage risk, improve safety, drive innovation, and ensure the continuous development of categories managed.

• Plan, manage and assume complete responsibility for all activities and processes associated with the categories assigned.

• Identify innovative procurement solutions that provide cashable savings and process efficiencies for the organization.

• Address vendor issues to ensure the highest level of service delivery.

• Structure commercial negotiations, agreements, SLA's, and total cost of ownership in ways that optimize capital expenditures, operating expenses, and risk management ensuring alignment with their business strategies for revenue growth, margin goals, and customer satisfaction.

• Maintain contractual and business relationships with suppliers.

• Facilitate implementation of procurement change initiatives within the category to improve business performance.

• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors, and product innovations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional certification (e.g., CPM, CPSM, CIRM, CPIM, MCIPS).

• Advanced degree (Masters and above) is a plus.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in one of the following: Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or Engineering.

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience.

• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

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Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo

Our U.S. Benefits include:

• Incentive Bonus Plans
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
• 401K with Company Match
• 9 Paid Holidays
• Generous Paid Time Off Packages
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Paid Parental & Family Leave
• and more!

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran's status, or, any other protected characteristic.