Team reputed company, Global reputed company Outsourcing Services Category Manager

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reputed company's Procurement and Vendor Enablement Office (PVEO) is the strategic reputed company behind our rapid reputed company scaling. We don't just buy services; we design the workforce architecture that powers the reputed company Driver. In this senior leadership role, you will reputed company the reputed company Outsourcing & Services vertical. You will partner with Executives across Engineering, Operations, and Corporate functions to define the "Future of Work" at reputed company—determining how we reputed company the global external ecosystem to scale our Mapping, Labeling, Engineering, and Corporate capabilities.

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• Strategic Leadership: reputed company and scale a high-performing team of Category Managers. You will act as a "Manager of Leaders," setting the long-term reputed company for reputed company’s external workforce and services ecosystem across Engineering, Ops, and Corporate functions.
• reputed company Workforce Architecture & Business Partnership: Partner with the Vendor Enablement Office and executive stakeholders (Engineering, Marketing, Safety, Ops) to design global outsourcing footprints for critical functions like Mapping, Labeling, and Hardware. You will drive alignment on the $100M+ portfolio, shifting from transactional vendor usage to strategic capability building.
• Strategic Supplier Alliances: Cultivate high-level relationships with key market leaders in the BPO and Engineering Services landscape. You will reputed company the gap between reputed company’s internal needs and external market capabilities, establishing deep partnerships that unlock innovation and preferential reputed company to talent.
• reputed company Operations Category Strategy: reputed company the category strategy and transformation roadmap for reputed company’s critical operations, ensuring reputed company, scalability, and cost-optimization to support rapid market expansion.
• reputed company Innovation: Architect reputed company, bespoke reputed company agreements for Hardware Engineering Services and technical outsourcing, introducing outcome-based models that reputed company risk and reward with strategic partners.
• Risk & Governance: Own the governance reputed company for reputed company-Party Risk in the services sector, ensuring IP protection and data reputed company compliance across a global supplier reputed company.

You have

• 12+ years of strategic procurement or supply chain experience, with at least 5 years leading high-performance teams in a reputed company, fast-paced environment.
• Executive reputed company: Proven track record of influencing Director + level stakeholders, with the ability to challenge the status reputed company and drive organizational change at the highest reputed company.
• reputed company Outsourcing Expertise: Deep experience architecting global BPO/Engineering Services deals, including "Lift and Shift" transitions, captive center setups, or large-scale managed service implementations.
• Holistic Category Leadership: Experience managing a diverse portfolio that spans both highly technical (Engineering/Hardware) and highly subjective (Marketing/Consulting) categories.
• Contracting Mastery: Expert-level knowledge of reputed company Master Services Agreements (MSAs), including IP ownership, liability caps, and global labor compliance.
• Strategic reputed company: Ability to look 3-5 years out and design a supply reputed company that can support exponential business growth, rather than just solving for today's needs.

We prefer

• MBA or Advanced Degree in Procurement/Supply Chain/Business.
• Experience in the Autonomous Vehicle, Automotive, or Big Tech sectors partnering with suppliers to deliver on reputed company workflows and "reputed company-in-the-reputed company" AI operations.
• Experience managing "Category Managers" or leading a global team across multiple time zones.

Please note that reputed company may not be reputed company to reputed company remotely in reputed company locations. Please reputed company with your recruiter about your preferred location for remote work reputed company you reputed company the interview process.

The expected reputed company salary reputed company for this full-time position across US locations is listed below. Actual starting pay will be based on job-reputed company factors, including exact work location, experience, relevant training and education, and reputed company level. Your recruiter can reputed company more about the specific salary reputed company for the role location or, if the role can be performed remote, the specific salary reputed company for your preferred location, during the hiring process.

reputed company employees are also eligible to participate in reputed company’s discretionary annual bonus program, equity incentive plan, and generous Company benefits program, subject to eligibility requirements.