Lead, Category Management; Engineering Software

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Job Title: Lead, Category Management (Engineering Software)

Job Code: 34461

Job Location: Remote Opportunity

Job Schedule: 9/80:
Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

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Harris’ Corporate Headquarters located in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Lead, Category Management of Engineering Software to join our Corporate Indirect Category Management Team. This highly visible, fast-paced, multi-dimensional role drives organizational value by providing strategic and day-to-day leadership across our Engineering Software spend. Key responsibilities include working with executive management and functional stakeholders to lead category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier relationship management.

This includes creating and executing category and sourcing strategies aimed at cost reduction, supply simplification, demand management, and ensuring product availability, with a spend responsibility of ~$500M. Strong business acumen, advanced negotiation skills, and a deep understanding of global economics and market data are required to forecast trends, reduce costs, and drive continuous improvement. Additionally, this position demands excellent interpersonal and leadership skills to influence change across functions.

This role will report to the Senior Manager, Category Management – Enterprise Technology as part of the Corporate Indirect Category Management Team and our strategic supply chain organization focused on leveraging the company’s scale and deploying best practices that achieve best possible quality, technology, cost and delivery for internal customers.

• Leverage negotiation strategies and lead negotiations with strategic and preferred suppliers to maximize benefits across L3
  
  Harris and its affiliates
• Leverage all procurement levers, including supplier rationalization, negotiations, make vs. buy analyses, vendor managed inventories, inventory reduction programs, and should-costing
• Drive significant cost savings and cost avoidance by proactively identifying new opportunities, such as enterprise discount programs, long-term contracts, and commit to consume models
• Leverage advanced procurement analytics and tools (e.g., cost modeling, price regression analysis, scenario planning, eAuctions, etc.) and drive systems and analytics best practices across the organization
• Develop contractual documentation (Master Service Agreements, Software as a Service, Enterprise Agreements, Statements of Work, etc.) in accordance with established policies and procedures while minimizing contractual risk
• Generate market insights through research and data, industry developments, supply/demand dynamics, emerging technologies, leading-edge practices
• Build, manage, and ensure execution of the category strategy for Engineering Software to achieve category goals, achieve business strategies and deliver sustainable category value
• Maintain knowledge of, and experience in, requirements for services and supplier capabilities in Engineering Software
• Partner as a subject matter expert (SME) on a continuous basis with internal customers to understand evolving business objectives, expectations and specific requirements
• Leverage performance targets for Enterprise-wide and category specific strategic goals to monitor performance
• Support regular communications with supply chain leadership and functional teams on category status, challenges,…