Director - Purchasing

Category Director Technology

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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 improve 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 savings in addition to revenue generation relating to working with Global Commercial Services and Global Merchant Services to increase billings and merchant coverage and ensuring optimal user experience for Amex colleagues and suppliers.

Strategic Sourcing and Business Enablement (SS&BE) is responsible for helping Amex enhance its purchasing power with third parties, of which $3B is for Technology category. The role of Category Director Technology is expected to lead best in class Category Management in pursuit of developing global category plans to support business unit and enterprise objectives bringing the best expertise, quality, and innovations to American Express through our third-party relationships. The role has oversight and responsibility for leading Technology Strategy planning and negotiations for Technology categories such as Infrastructure, Software as a Service and IT Labor.

Key Responsibilities But Not Limited To :

• Develop global category management plans to meet business objectives, understand spend profiles, develop sourcing strategies, and complete industry benchmarking analysis.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with business partners to understand key business strategies, objectives, priorities and opportunities.
• Prepare presentations and dashboards for internal partners and suppliers to meet enterprise objectives, enhance capabilities, protect the brand, realize saves, influence demand and drive other profit benefits to support growth.
• Initiate and drive strategic activities across the global category that have major impact on revenue and profitability.
• Negotiate key deals and contracts and complete supplier assessments and selections through RFx activities.
• Key contact to senior and executive management and primary Relationship Lead across various business units and categories.
• Partner across SS&BE team to bring global value chain perspective and enterprise mindset to deliver significant value and savings to the enterprise.
• Create a culture of strong critical thinking, financial analytics, external marketplace focus and partner closely with business units to influence and help drive key, strategic business decisions.
• Collaborate with business leaders and the SS&BE Source to Contract team to ensure efficient and effective delivery of contracting activities.
• Cultivate partnerships with internal teams that support execution of the Category Plan and negotiations, including International Category teams, Third-Party Lifecycle Management, Finance, and the General Counsel's Office to ensure synchronization of priorities to meet shared goals.

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Preferred Qualifications :

Salary Range : $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually bonus benefits

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Job : Purchasing / Procurement

Primary Location : US-New York-New York

Other Locations : US-Arizona-Phoenix

Schedule : Full-time

Req ID : 25018757