Sr. Manager Procurement - Real Estate and Facilities, Category Leader

News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay‑tv distribution in Australia.

Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Location:

NYC – 1211 Ave of the Americas

Employment type:

Full time
Job Req: 50568

Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/Disabled/Vets

Job Description

Role: Sr. Manager Procurement – Real Estate and Facilities, Category Leader
Department: Procurement – Indirect Category
Location: NYC 1211 6th Avenue
In office: 3 days a week

Position summary
:
In the News Corp Global Sourcing Organization, our aim is to unlock value for News Corp to reinvest in what matters most. We do this by bringing speed, efficiency, and security to buying at News Corp and with all business units within. We partner deeply across News Corp’s business units to deliver solutions fit for purpose.

As a centralized organization operating in a high complexity environment, we bring one voice to stakeholders, suppliers and vendors to ensure the best outcomes. Our organization fosters a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement while providing opportunities for ongoing career growth and development. As a Category Leader, you will partner closely with key stakeholders to help shape and implement sourcing strategies related to your category.

This team is responsible for developing and driving holistic category strategies, managing stakeholder relationships, and bringing excellence to News Corp‑wide sourcing, supplier, and supplier management. You will collaborate across teams to develop new procurement approaches and solve complex business problems.

As a sourcing category leader, you will lead strategic sourcing engagements across a wide range of business units to enable new initiatives to launch and scale rapidly. You are an expert practitioner in creating competitive environments, and have a strong bias for decision‑making rooted in data and analytics. You routinely influence C‑level supplier relationships and advise senior business leaders on innovative sourcing strategies that create sustainable, long‑term partnerships.

You are a highly effective communicator, and are able to articulate the value proposition of partnering with our sourcing group.

This role in particular focused on category leadership for the sub‑category Real Estate and Facilities, under the Indirect Category umbrella.

• Lead the delivery of the annual YOY productivity savings & working capital impact across the category owners; set preliminary vision/goals for the category assigned in first 90‑days on the job based on identified cost drivers
• Develop, execute, and implement a complete Category Strategy for Real Estate and Facilities Services, collaborating with key stakeholders, team members, and leaders affected by the respective category; play an integral role in the development of multi‑year global category plans and strategies that drive supplier consolidation and leverage spend across the organization while increasing spend under contract
• Follow structured project management methods and principles to execute complex, long‑term category management and strategic sourcing initiatives
• Adopt/leverage the Category Performance framework and define metrics related to category performance and continuously tracks them
• Prepare and execute clear, structured negotiations following the Global Sourcing and Procurement Category Management and Strategic Sourcing methodologies
• Start/Run program level initiatives that can create benefits such as improving an existing process, execute actions to increase diversity, etc.
• Manage Category cards detailing overall…