Procurement Category Manager

Here’s the difference you’ll make.. As part of 2GO’s Strategic Procurement team, you’ll go beyond traditional sourcing to reshape how the organization manages third-party spend and creates commercial value. You’ll identify and lead transformational procurement initiatives, unlock savings and sustainable supply solutions, strengthen strategic supplier partnerships, and influence decisions across major spend categories—from transportation and equipment to manpower, facilities, petroleum, IT services, and construction. Operating as a strategic individual contributor, you’ll challenge the status quo, simplify ways of working, and bring innovative procurement strategies to complex business challenges. You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders and dedicated teams handling tactical sourcing, fulfillment, P2P, and procurement systems, ensuring your strategic insights and category expertise translate into meaningful business outcomes. Whether you’re a procurement generalist or a deep category specialist, you’ll have the opportunity to make a measurable impact on 2GO’s growth, competitiveness, and long-term value. Your mission.. Strategic Roadmap Development - Design comprehensive Category Plans that balance immediate, short-term actions with long-term vision to drive overarching business goals. Supplement strategic roadmaps with detailed Sourcing Calendars to effectively schedule, track, and execute procurement activities over targeted timelines. Category Management – Analyze and propose category management initiatives for handled spend categories. Most often, this involves creating initiatives for high value spend, spanning full year or multi-year contracts. Identify, negotiate, establish, and maintain Preferred Vendors for recurring spend categories to optimize long-term commercial value and supply continuity. Business Partnering - Engage business leaders to understand long-term requirements, challenge demand, align sourcing strategies, and influence sourcing and commercial decisions. Secure cross-functional buy-in for procurement initiatives through proactive stakeholder management, early engagement, and close alignment with business requirements. Sourcing to Awarding – Execute Procurement sourcing activities for high value spend that falls within the scope of Strategic Procurement, covering Requirements Intake, RFx preparation, RFx execution, proposal evaluation, detailed negotiations (including contract negotiation) and awarding. Endorsement to Procurement Operations and Stakeholders – Upon awarding vendors or concluding strategic initiatives, endorse awarded vendors and agreed ways of working / terms / conditions to both the Procurement Operations group and the relevant stakeholders who can then support in operational execution of the strategy. Procurement Operations shall support in PO creation, delivery monitoring and any related issue resolution. Stakeholders shall manage the non-commercial aspects of the initiative. This job role, however, remains accountable to ensure that agreed commercial terms and conditions are followed by internal and external stakeholders until the end of any agreed undertaking. · Contracting: Collaborate with Business Units (BUs) to prepare preliminary contract drafts prior to initiating bidding activities. Evaluate and negotiate any commercial terms and conditions in contracts. Support end-users and internal stakeholders during negotiations regarding non-commercial terms as required, and support as needed to ensure contracts are closed until final signatures. It is expected that Strategic Procurement will manage full year and multi-year types of contracts. · Insights Delivery – Provide in-scope supplier / commodity market intelligence and strategic recommendations as needed to various stakeholders to support business decisions. · Supplier Performance Evaluation – Identify Critical Suppliers requiring routine performance evaluations. Collaborate with business stakeholders to ensure that performance evaluations and corresponding post-evaluation actions are performed. Support strategic vendors in ensuring improvements in performance. · Spend Leadership – The role is primarily an individual contributor role. But as a subject matter expert on your assigned spend categories, you will be expected to support the Procurement team’s over-all capabilities and awareness on how to manage spend under your scope. · Compliance - Ensure all performed procurement activities adhere to 2GO’s internal policies. You’ll thrive in this role if you.. Educational Background · Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field. · Relevant professional certifications (e.g., CIPS) or post-graduate studies (MBA) are advantageous but not mandatory. Professional Experience · For Manager level – 5 to 7 years of procurement experience, including a minimum of 3 years focus on category management and procurement business partnering. We welcome applications from both broad procurement generalists and deep category experts. Equivalent backgrounds demonstrating a strong track record of leading complex, cross-functional projects and driving change management will also be considered. · Technical Skills Data Analytics: Intermediate to advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency for data manipulation and strategic spend analysis. Stakeholder Presentation: Strong MS PowerPoint skills (or similar tools) to build compelling decks for senior stakeholder management. Procurement Systems: Familiarity with ERP software (e.g., SAP , Oracle) or e-Sourcing platforms is highly advantageous but not required. · Soft Skills Business Acumen: Strong commercial awareness with the ability to align procurement strategies with broader corporate goals. Stakeholder Management & Influence: High communication and presentation skills, with the capability to influence challenging stakeholders. Change Leadership: A growth mindset with a strong inclination to challenge the status quo, drive continuous process improvements, and the ingenuity to piece together fragmented or siloed organizational data. What’s in it for you at 2GO.. Own enterprise impact. You are trusted to influence decisions and enable the business to perform at its best. Grow in a valued community. You work in a culture that listens, collaborates, and invests in your long-term success. Excel through expertise. You are empowered and recognized for delivering high standards and smart solutions. Be recognized and feel valued—at work and beyond. Receive and enjoy competitive compensation, performance bonuses, incentives, travel perks, Day 1 access to health and wellness programs and paid time off designed to support your well-being.