Top Category Management Executive jobs in San Jose, CA

Top Category Management Executive plans and directs all aspects of an organization's merchandising category management. Oversees the implementation of category management to achieve company's strategies and financial goals. Being a Top Category Management Executive requires a bachelor's degree in area of specialty. Typically reports to top management. The Top Category Management Executive manages a departmental sub-function within a broader departmental function. Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the sub-function and develops budgets/policies/procedures to support the functional infrastructure. Deep knowledge of the managed sub-function and solid knowledge of the overall departmental function. To be a Top Category Management Executive typically requires 5+ years of managerial experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)

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Senior Director, Category Management
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Pleasanton, CA OTHER
  • Job Summary:

    This senior director position is responsible for directing and overseeing the development of category/spend strategies for multiple category teams by leveraging advanced expertise of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; fostering and maintaining relationships with key internal client and supplier leadership; overseeing end-to-end delivery of business needs for categories under management; demonstrating a deep understanding of client initiatives and short, medium, and long-term goals; ensuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations; managing the adoption of change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders to drive strategic programs; and partnering with executive leadership to review and drive decisions.
     
    This position is also responsible for directing the RFP process and supplier negotiations; overseeing the development and execution of RFPs to drive the strategic sourcing process; reviewing and leveraging analytics and insights to ensure data-driven decisions; analyzing category spend to understand price drivers and trends; applying cost and supply market analytics; and overseeing and championing a digital mindset to adopt new technologies in the source to pay space.

    Essential Responsibilities:

    • Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives.
    • Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams. Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.
    • Directs and oversees the development of category/spend strategies for multiple category teams by leveraging advanced expertise of the markets, suppliers and stakeholder needs; ensuring clear, informed decisions aligned with a multi-year strategy; overseeing end-to-end delivery of business needs for all categories under direction; keeping current on external and internal influences that may impact the larger organization (e.g., Healthcare Reform, macroeconomic issues, etc.); and partnering with senior executive leadership to review and drive decisions.
    • Fosters and maintains long-term relationships with key internal client and supplier leadership by leveraging strong, collaborative partnerships with leaders across the business to gain buy-in and deliver value; demonstrating a deep understanding of client initiatives  and short, medium, and long-term goals; partnering with suppliers to identify and pursue opportunities to drive improved quality and delivery performance; assuring alignment of initiatives and strategies with client expectations to drive value, innovation, service/supply resiliency, quality of care and governance; and partnering with key cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Portfolio Leads, Sourcing, Procurement Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, etc.) to advance Category Management capabilities.
    • Directs the RFP process and supplier negotiations, and ensures contracting to deliver strategic value by leveraging advanced negotiation strategies, tactics, and processes in line with situational demands; leading and overseeing contract negotiations in partnership with Legal; and overseeing the development and execution of RFPs to drive the strategic sourcing process.
    • Reviews and leverages advanced analytics and insights to ensure data-driven decisions by reviewing the analysis of category spend to understand price drivers and trends; applying cost and supply market analytics to develop and drive category strategies; and championing a digital mindset to adopt new technologies in the source to pay space.
    • Oversees and champions the adoption of strategic change practices with customers, suppliers and stakeholders throughout the implementation and/or modification of new or existing strategic programs (e.g., Source to Pay transformation, Category Management training programs, etc.).
    • Directs efforts to support KPs Sustainability and Environmental goals and serves as an advocate to further advance results in Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP).
  • 11 Days Ago

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Site Supervisor for Private Security.
  • Executive Event Management and Consulting
  • Newark, CA FULL_TIME
  • Executive Event Management is a small private security company based out of Salt Lake City, UT. We're looking to fill the position of Site Supervisor. This is a full-time schedule, Monday-Friday from ...
  • 1 Month Ago

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Senior Director of Category Management, Information Technology (Remote)
  • Kaiser Permanente
  • Pleasanton, CA OTHER
  • Please Note - Salary ranges are geography based. Posted range is for Bay Area, CA. Lower ranges will apply for other markets outside of Northern, CAAlthough this role is remote, you must reside in a s...
  • 11 Days Ago

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Dual Executive Housekeeper
  • Peachtree Hospitality Management LLC
  • San Jose, CA FULL_TIME
  • Executive housekeepers are in charge of overseeing and directing the cleaning activities for a business or hotel. They also prepare the work schedules in advance, handle customer service and complaint...
  • 20 Days Ago

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Sr. Account Executive
  • Food Management Search
  • San Jose, CA FULL_TIME
  • Our client offers a real-time, big data cloud database. Their technology increases storage capacity as much as 10X! They greatly enable exceptional end-user experiences at radically lower costs and hi...
  • 22 Days Ago

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Project Executive (San Jose)
  • Next Level HVAC Energy Management Systems
  • San Jose, CA FULL_TIME
  • Job Description: As a Project Executive, you will drive business through the construction contracting tiers, grow our end-user client base and successfully manage projects. Our projects cover a wide r...
  • 4 Days Ago

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EA CEO
  • Confidential
  • Palo Alto, CA
  • Exciting new opportunity for tech firm. The ideal candidate will provide top-level assistance for high level, high energ...
  • 4/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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General Manager
  • Teaspoon San Jose
  • San Jose, CA
  • Job Description Job Description About Teaspoon At Teaspoon, we pride ourselves on using nothing but the freshest ingredi...
  • 4/25/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Project Lifecycle Project Manager - Telecom
  • HCLTech
  • Milpitas, CA
  • Job Qualifications: Experience in complete Product Life Cycle Concept, Plan, Develop, Validate, Launch and Production re...
  • 4/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Vice President Of Clinical Affairs (Urology) Medical Device
  • TGI Life Sciences
  • San Jose, CA
  • An exciting opportunity to join an early Medical Device start up company based in California. focusing in the sector of ...
  • 4/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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R&D Program Manager
  • Abbott Laboratories
  • Alameda, CA
  • Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-chan...
  • 4/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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General Manager
  • ADP - RNOOID0025926203
  • Saratoga, CA
  • Job Description Job Description Teaspoon Cafe Are you as passionate about Tea and Boba as we are? At Teaspoon, we pride ...
  • 4/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Assistant General Manager
  • Innovative Dining Group
  • Palo Alto, CA
  • COME JOIN OUR TEAM! Innovative Dining Group’s Sushi Roku Palo Alto is opening soon and we are looking for the best in ou...
  • 4/24/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Assistant Manager
  • Moonlai
  • Los Altos, CA
  • Job Description Job Description Teaspoon Cafe Are you as passionate about Tea and Boba as we are? At Teaspoon, we pride ...
  • 4/23/2024 12:00:00 AM

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Income Estimation for Top Category Management Executive jobs
$322,590 to $508,131
San Jose, California area prices
were up 2.9% from a year ago