DE022647-Business Advisory Manager

---ONLY THOSE APPLICANTS WHO ALREADY HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIVE AND WORK IN THIS COUNTRY ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR THIS ROLE--- PROJECT NAME: Procurement POSITION TITLE: Business Advisory Manager WORK SETUP: Return to Office OVERALL PURPOSE: Job Posting Title :Category Management GPO CL7 Job Profile :Business Advisory Manager RESPONSIBILITIES: • Collection, consolidation and translation of business, leadership and functional needs in the context of category management and SRM (e.g. goals and objectives, focus areas, strategic topics, innovation and risk factors) • Central representation of the global category management team and category management as subject matter before leadership, across P+ functions incl. the broader GPO team and acting as a counterpart to client’s category governance function (SPOC role) • Development, content creation and orchestration of all central category management and innovation & control meetings and comms channels (e.g. Category pillar call, uniting the leads, global category council) • Steering, orchestration and standardization of category planning activity and governance of the deliverables, i.e. provision of templates and data, establishment of uniform approach to planning and documentation, alignment, formal communication and distribution, change management and adoption • Identification and definition of process improvements within category management and across the whole value chain (e.g. approval flows and escalations, ways of collaborating and communicating, project planning, preferred suppliers and SRM programs etc.) • Identification and definition of organization / operating model improvements within category management and across auxiliary functions (e.g. distribution of resources and skill, geographical capacities, reporting line and team structure optimization, roles and responsibility fine tuning, etc.) • Identification of technological improvements as well as support with technical roll-outs, configuration, enablement, adoption and optimization of tools and digital processes (e.g. SynOps Workflow, Ignite Spend Platform, various dashboard solutions, general data availability and accuracy, etc.) • POC and support for account wide initiatives that involve category management, SRM or a related delivery function (e.g. superlative career experience, supervisory org and job family clean ups, budgeting, transformation planning, SI&S topics, etc.) • Continuous support to leadership and Category Directors with escalations, adHoc topics and urgent queries, hiring, backfills and capacity planning OTHERS: Project Shift Schedule: Morning Shift Project Rest Day: Weekends Off Project/Team Location: Mandaluyong Robinsons Cybergate Tower 2