Category Manager

7 days ago

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada TJX Canada Full time

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What you'll discover

Eligible Associates can look forward to:

  • State-of-the-art amenities at our eco-friendly Home Office. Take a tour
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  • One-of-a-kind, inclusive culture
  • Enjoy the Best of Both with our Hybrid work model
  • Health benefits that take effect your first day
  • Management Incentive and Stock Plans
  • Retirement Savings Plan
  • Dedicated training and onthejob resources to enhance your development
  • Three weeks' vacation with the option to buy an additional week through our _Vacation Trade Program_
  • Merchandise discount for yourself and eligible family members at all TJX Canada stores
  • Associate and Family Assistance Program to support healthy living

What you'll do
It's safe to say, there's no shortage of variety in what we do.

Here are some key responsibilities of the role:

  • The purpose of this role is to Lead crossfunctional teams in the execution of medium to large Strategic Sourcing initiatives and the implementation of category strategies
  • Manages global strategic supplier relationships and rationalizes supply base; negotiates contract business terms and collaborates with legal to establish proper contracts; monitors and reports categoryspecific savings and performance metrics
  • Aligns all regional Sourcing efforts with our Global Category Management teams Establishes a solid partnership with our Global peers and colleagues. Participates in the development of Regional and Global Category Strategies and drives the category planning process
  • Collects and actively challenges current product or service requirements; presents new sourcing strategies to drive cost savings; recommends new ways to manage demand through process redesign
  • Ensures, in partnership with Center Of Expertise team, a compliant 'SourcetoPay' process is in place for all eligible Business Partner spend. Use of defined strategic sourcing methodologies, tools, and templates to ensure a fair, open and competitive sourcing process
  • Identifies and executes against opportunities for specification alignment, process improvement, and demand management
  • Executes against supplier relationship management programs
  • Participates on annual and special projects / committees as needed
  • Actively participate and support the execution of GS&P Value Driver and Strategic Initiatives
  • Establish or enhance business partnership as a brand ambassador of GS&P, seek business collaboration opportunities between business functions and cross regions where synergy presents. Influence and drive for effective decision making

What you'll need

To begin your career with us, you'll have:

  • Minimum 5-7 years strategic sourcing, procurement or related experience
  • Bachelor degree or Post-Secondary education in Supply Chain Management, Business or equivalent experience
  • Knowledge and experience in International and domestics freight preferred.
  • Preferred Certification or working towards: SCMP, (or EU or US equivalents, CIPS, CPSM)
  • Excellent problemsolving skills including analysis of information (i.e. requirements; description of problems); provide solutions with cost implications to effectively resolve issues and execute strategic solution
  • Strong PowerPoint, Excel, Power BI/Tableau is an asset along with the ability to perform detailed financial cost analyses and forecasting
  • Knowledge of procurement/sourcing systems such as Coupa, GEP, Ariba is an asset
  • Strong presentation skills, with experience presenting information to senior leaders
  • Solid organizational skills with ability to implement and manage details, prioritize, multitask and sometimes under time pressure
  • Developed collaborative, facilitation, active listening and negotiating skills with ability to develop and build relationships with internal and external partners, influence team members and help prioritize activities and resources to meet the organization's needs; build rapport and credibility to be a trusted advisor

Posting details

  • Application closing date: March 29, 2023


Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself.

By becoming a member of our TJX Canada family, you'll have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people across our Distributions Centres, Retail Stores (Winners, HomeSense, Marshalls) and our Office locations.

Are you ready to Discover Different?

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