What are the responsibilities and job description for the Category Manager position at CACI?
What You’ll Get to Do: Are you looking for an opportunity to drive strategic procurement solutions within a company? Corporate Procurement’s Category Management Team is looking for a strategic-focused professional to lead the execution, implementation, and management of CACI categories and corporate wide contracts.
As Category Manager you will partner with leadership and senior stakeholders to lead the execution, implementation, and management of CACI corporate wide categories. You will drive cost savings and reduce risk by working to eliminate operational inefficiencies, negotiating custom vendor-specific contracts, and becoming a trusted advisor who enables the business to succeed.
More About the Role:
- Ensures NDAs, corporate-wide Reseller Agreements, and Partner Agreements are positioned appropriately before business is initiated.
- Owner of RFI's, RFP's and RFQ's ensuring all commercial and government terms are agreed and documented.
- Lead the vendor selection process with various internal stakeholders.
- Develop key performance measures for chosen vendors and negotiate on multiple variables to award longer-term strategic contracts that result in significant cost reduction and improved service levels.
- Address all areas of category management including category business plans, global market and pricing analysis and procurement support.
- Monitor current category market conditions, technology roadmaps and identify supply/demand challenges & opportunities.
- Manage respective vendor relationships and performance, including but not limited to dispute resolution.
- Work collaboratively with Corporate and Sector Leadership, Program & Project Staff, Purchasing, Subcontracts, other Category Managers.
You’ll Bring These Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required.
- 3 years broad-based experience across supply chain, with particular focus in category management, purchasing, strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, driven price analysis, vendor relationship management and performance management
- Expertise in the categories, understanding of current market conditions proven track record to drive savings using different category strategies
- Strong analytical skills are required with experience in spend analysis tools and performing spend analysis using Excel
- Independently executing RFPs including business outsourcing
- Strong contract negotiations skills
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel
What We Can Offer You:
- We’ve been named a Best Place to Work by the Washington Post.
- Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.
- We offer competitive benefits and learning and development opportunities.
- We are mission-oriented and ever vigilant in aligning our solutions with the nation’s highest priorities.
- For over 55 years, the principles of CACI’s unique, character-based culture have been the driving force behind our success.
As a federal contractor, CACI is subject to any federal vaccine mandates or other customer vaccination requirements. All new hires are required to report their vaccination status.
