Procurement

• Lead implementation of category management strategies, plans, and programs with key accounts
• Develop and present Beer, Spirits, and Wine schematics to key independent and chain accounts
• Analyze brand trends to create shelf schematics
• Create computer-generated shelf schematics for new and existing businesses, including floor layouts, endcaps, shelf segments, cold space, proposed test concepts, and total-store planograms
• Participate in benchmark planogram validation
• Curate and deliver consumer and shopper insights to support recommendations
• Identify challenges and opportunities and propose recommendations to improve category sales and performance
• Engage with Sales Teams to identify brand/category opportunities within accounts
• Assist on sales calls for new and existing accounts to create category development proposals
• Work with key independent and chain retailers to determine brand/category opportunities and develop aligned action strategies
• Maintain data information sources aligned with category management output processes
• Own category analytics and supporting resources
• Analyze Sales Scan Data, Nielsen/IRI Data, NABCA, consumer panel, and depletion data
• Evaluate category and segment performance using scorecards, assortment analysis tools, pricing analysis reports, and post-promotion analysis
• Maintain key reference files, including master store lists, item lists, authorizations, and store clusters
• Partner with regional category leadership to establish space-planning libraries and ways of working
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Category Manager

• Manage high-volume book categories within the Scholastic Dollars Catalog and Classroom Collections businesses
• Develop and execute strategic category plans aligned with business objectives
• Establish category priorities and evaluate performance to identify growth opportunities
• Lead customer-focused product assortments, pricing strategies, and product presentation plans
• Read, review, evaluate, select, and acquire relevant titles and products for redemption programs
• Analyze product sales, market research, and customer insights to inform selections and identify trends
• Partner with Scholastic Trade and Book Fair Category Management teams on ordering efficiencies and collaboration
• Build and maintain publisher and vendor relationships
• Negotiate product costs, vendor terms, and promotional support
• Evaluate tariff regulations and their impact on costs, sourcing, and profitability
• Partner with Inventory Planning to develop inventory strategies
• Provide item-level demand forecasts and purchasing recommendations
• Monitor inventory productivity and sell-through and mitigate excess inventory risk
• Collaborate with Product Marketing on promotional strategies
• Lead catalog merchandising strategy for the book category
• Direct the E-Commerce team and E-Commerce Specialist on online product presentation
• Support sales team product training and education
• Represent the Scholastic Dollars team at meetings, trade shows, and publishing conferences
• Collaborate with Scholastic divisions and industry partners on trends and business growth
• Improve category management tools, systems, and processes
• Manage, mentor, and develop Assistant Category Manager(s)

Senior Category Manager

• Develop strategic sourcing strategies for assigned suppliers and/or commodities for the MAKO business unit
• Obtain the best quality, service, and value through bidding, negotiation, and supplier management
• Develop and implement cost reduction, supply base optimization and rationalization, quality improvement, risk assessment, and contract negotiation strategies
• Implement supplier and commodity strategies, including spend and supply assessments, consolidation, sourcing selection, financial analysis, and make-versus-buy analysis
• Build relationships with key suppliers and internal business disciplines
• Represent the supplier perspective within the organization
• Negotiate long-term supply contracts and resolve supplier challenges
• Identify supply base risks and implement mitigation plans
• Use market trends to identify cost controls and business strategy changes
• Perform cost analyses with Value Engineering and conduct cost-based supplier negotiations
• Establish cost standards for annual operating budgets
• Lead scorecards and business reviews for key suppliers

Sourcing Manager

• Oversee plant procurement activities across Sourcing and Purchasing Operations
• Manage Site Buyers and drive procurement excellence, productivity, and working-capital initiatives across the LNG supply base
• Report weekly, monthly, and quarterly KPIs and oversee Buyers’ purchasing activities
• Maintain bi-weekly supplier committee meetings and leadership connections with plant stakeholders
• Support alternate supplier selection, supplier strategies, new supplier qualification, and supply-base expansion
• Improve PR-to-PO conversion, purchase-order acknowledgements, invoice resolution, and supplier on-time delivery
• Evaluate supplier risks and develop mitigation plans with suppliers and cross-functional teams
• Develop contract strategies and lead negotiations with key strategic LNG suppliers
• Integrate Honeywell procurement processes and the UOP supplier qualification model into the LNG business
• Lead or support sole-source reduction and value-engineering activities
• Report monthly productivity savings and operational KPIs
• Align purchasing activities with Engineering, Finance, ISC, Production, Quality, Logistics, and Projects
• Lead steering committee meetings and supplier delivery-shortage escalations
• Implement supplier scorecards and develop LNG Preferred Supplier Lists and Approved Vendor Lists
• Identify and implement process improvements to increase efficiency and reduce costs
• Coach and develop Site Buyers and remove operational roadblocks
• Lead weekly project-progress, procurement-operations KPI, and LNG procurement meetings
• Maintain project procurement plans, supplier issues, expediting, and strategy development for Heat Exchanger projects

Procurement jobs in Florida

Category Manager

Senior Category Manager

Sourcing Manager

Purchasing Manager