Marketing Category Manager

The Marketing Category Manager will be responsible for establishing category goals, negotiating and managing contracts / renewals, developing and monitoring a preferred supplier list, rationalizing spend. This role will also focus on strategic management of 3rd party spend, ensuring maximum return on investments.  This role with work closely with other departments, including marketing, events, IT, legal, and finance.

Responsibilities

Category Planning & Execution

• Build strong partnership with Business Leaders
• Analyze 3rd party spend and develop roadmap for the assigned categories in continuous collaboration with business stakeholders
• Creating and developing a strategic long-term plan for the development of the category
• Lead vendor contracts negotiations through preparation and focus on business, procurement, and financial risks (i.e. cost, market, industry risks), Supplier Intelligence, and Contract Cost/Price modelling. This involves counterparty financial strength analysis, intelligence/research, pricing analytics, financial modelling, and presentation skills related to highly complex and high dollar contract and/or 3rd party action.
• Negotiate contracts with best-in-class terms and conditions that reflect specific business and geographic needs of Veeam
• Building and driving relationship with key vendors to improve pricing and quality of services
• Plan, draft and execute formal RFPs and other negotiations, ensuring that our business partners obtain the best value on all of its spend
• Provide directions and guidance for Sourcing Manager and Buyers to execute on strategy
• Owns, monitors and tracks preferred supplier relationships, while constantly looking for areas of improvement, cost reduction, and innovation

Process Improvement / Operational Support

• Identify areas for process development and/or improvement
• Participate and contribute in S2P initiatives: solution testing and implementation, training and working procedure design
• Work with customized Reports and spend analysis (may require database clean up) and provide meaningful category insights

Qualifications

• In depth understanding of the marketing procurement spend and category management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail, demonstrated integrity and professionalism
• Strong negotiation skills
• Demonstrate procurement market awareness, ability to complete supplier and industry research and provide recommendations based on findings
• Ability to multitask and prioritize diverse tasks
• Excellent project managerial and interpersonal skills
• Proven ability of strategic thinking and leadership experience with an emphasis on relationship management and communication at all levels within an organization
• Ability to facilitate and coordinate multiple deadlines, create cohesive teams, and respond quickly to management requests
• This role reports to the Senior Director, Procurement & Travel

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits that start on day one
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Family planning support benefits, along with 100% paid maternity and parental leave
• 401k match
• Veeam Care Days – additional 24 hours for your volunteering activities
• Professional training and education, including courses and workshops, internal meetups, and unlimited access to our online learning platforms (Percipio, Athena, O’Reilly) and mentoring through our MentorLab program.

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