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At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Global Supply Management (GSM) is responsible for helping Amex enhance the purchasing power of over $11B annual third party spend. We provide strategic consultation to the business and provide end-to-end procurement services. We increase the purchasing power of the Company to drive the best value from our supplier base which then frees up investment capacity for the Blue Box. GSM, together with our business partners, manages the supplier strategy for the Company, identifying and on-boarding new suppliers, realizing significant cost saves and revenue generation working with Global Commercial Services and Global Merchant Services to increase billings and merchant coverage and ensuring an optimal user experience for Amex colleagues and suppliers.

The Category Manager role is expected to develop and grow relationships with Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) business partners to understand objectives, key priorities, and opportunities. The role will partner with internal customers to develop strategic, forward-thinking plans with multi-year value generating initiatives to enable business success. The successful candidate will lead strategy planning and negotiations for Software as a Service and IT Labor (consulting) engagements totaling over $2B in annual spend.

Responsibilities, at a high level, include:

• Develop global category management plans for infrastructure software and IT Labor to meet ETS and enterprise objectives,

• Understand spend profiles, perform benchmarking analysis to develop strategic category plans with multi-year value generating sourcing initiatives to enable ETS success.

• Prepare cases and presentations for internal ETS, GSM and Finance leaders.

• Partner with ETS leaders and Source to Contract team to develop sourcing strategies, negotiate key deals and contracts and complete supplier assessments and selections through RFx activities.

• Establish and grow strong relationships with ETS partners to understand key strategies, annual goals/objectives, and identify issues, challenges, and potential opportunities.

• Lead through critical thinking, financial analytics, external marketplace evaluation and partnership with ETS to influence and drive key, strategic business decisions.

• Bring external insights, innovative ideas, and an enterprise view on market trends, competitive landscape, value generation and strategic sourcing opportunities.

• Develop a category review cycle to refresh strategy and ensure alignment with ETS partners on a regular basis.

• Collaborate with ETS partners and Source to Contract team to ensure efficient and effective delivery of contracting activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5 years of extensive, broad-based strategic sourcing and/ or category management experience.

• Strong critical thinking and planning skills, balanced with proven track record of delivering tangible results in complex, global and matrix work environment.

• Excellent relationship management and communication skills with ability to collaborate and influence across levels with internal and external partners (including senior executives) globally. Proven ability to engage and maintain senior partner relationships.

• Proven track record of data analysis to develop insights and recommendations, solve business challenges, improve customer experience and bottom-line results.

• Strong leadership skills and commitment to collaborating and partnering with customers, colleagues and key collaborators to deliver high-quality output with limited resources.

• Positive attitude, ability to work in a fluid, fast paced, and at times unstructured environment and maintain flexibility to meet the changing needs of the customers, business units and the organization.

• Bachelor Degree Required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Software/ IT Labor category management and/or sourcing experience preferred.

• Financial acumen experience with standard accounting treatment.

• Project management skills: to manage sourcing events, contract renewals, system/ process changes.

Qualifications

Salary Range: $89,250.00 to $150,250.00 annually bonus benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries

• Bonus incentives

• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan

• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits

• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy

• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)

• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program

• Career development and training opportunities

For a full list of Team Amex benefits, visit our Colleague Benefits Site .

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law. American Express will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including, but not limited to, the California Fair Chance Act, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. For positions covered by federal and/or state banking regulations, American Express will comply with such regulations as it relates to the consideration of applicants with criminal convictions.

We back our colleagues with the support they need to thrive, professionally and personally. That's why we have Amex Flex, our enterprise working model that provides greater flexibility to colleagues while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite, in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and virtual days) or fully virtually.

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Job: Purchasing/Procurement

Primary Location: US-Arizona-Phoenix

Other Locations: US-New York-New York

Schedule Full-time

Req ID: 25020266