Global Category Procurement Operations Specialist

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Job Description:

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The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Global Category Procurement Operations Senior Specialist supports global category procurement teams by executing sourcing and operational procurement activities, managing supplier interactions, resolving issues, and ensuring responsive, compliant support across end-to-end procurement processes. This role acts as a key operational partner to category teams and stakeholders by handling requests, supporting transactional and tactical sourcing, facilitating supplier communication, maintaining fraud prevention and compliance controls, and identifying opportunities for process improvement. In a global environment, the position requires strong collaboration, analytical capability, customer service orientation, and a solid understanding of procurement operations to help drive procurement performance and operational efficiency. At more advanced levels, the role also includes leading supplier negotiations, developing negotiation strategies informed by category insights and data analysis, serving as a trusted advisor to category leaders, and mentoring less experienced team members. Your key responsibilities would be to:

• Support global category procurement teams in sourcing activities, supplier interactions, and stakeholder communication, including managing requests, escalations, and customer service issues.

• Conduct supplier negotiations for routine and tail-spend matters, and at advanced levels lead broader negotiations involving pricing, terms, and conditions.

• Ensure compliance with procurement controls, including bank verification and fraud prevention requirements, while maintaining responsive and reliable operational support.