Category Management Expertise Leader

3 days ago

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) Full time

Category Strategy and Planning Lead Role Overview

We're seeking a highly experienced Category Strategy and Planning Lead to join our team at ANZ. As a key member of our category management team, you will be responsible for overseeing the development of category management key practice areas and operationalising our vision across our medium to long-term planning horizons.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and own the Category Management roadmap towards the Procurement Vision and FY27 Strategy
  • Instill a continuous improvement and agile mindset throughout Category Management to embed a culture of evaluating value delivered and pivoting priorities to ensure alignment with the Bank's strategic imperatives
  • Support the coordination and prioritization of resources and knowledge assets across all areas of category management to maximise value, promote increased alignment and ensure achievement of our functional objectives
  • Remove obstacles, set direction and provide a point of escalation for issues that relate to our key practice areas
  • Evolving category strategy and supplier management frameworks to help coach the category team towards continuous improvement and driving sustainable and measurable value over medium to longer term horizons
  • Continuously improve our frameworks to enhance value delivery, ESG outcomes and a more vibrant and engaged supplier ecosystem
  • Develops rapport with the category teams, sponsors and supplier-facing business teams to support better SRM and facilitate a community of practice and represents the 'voice of our suppliers' into ANZ
  • Promote utilisation of category tools, subscriptions and resources to support more effective business partnering and in providing powerful real-time insights to category managers and practice leaders
  • Collaborate with category leadership to support and enable consistent messaging and engagement channels for strategic and growth suppliers, embed segmentation framework and supplier account plans into category strategies
  • Track category management performance through value tracking dashboards for cost as well as broader strategic value
  • Lead strategic annual planning cycle on behalf of category management, driving alignment around baselines and stitching together key delivery roadmap across SRM, ESG and category teams

What You'll Bring

To succeed in this role, you will ideally bring strong experience working in a leading consulting practice firm, tech start-up or consulting like industry (eg. technology/digital strategy, innovation procurement or strategic partnerships). You will also have knowledge and hands-on experience implementing of the end-to-end supply chain and procurement lifecycle – including category strategy and management, source to contract market activities, negotiation and execution, contractual/deal expertise, performance management and navigating supply chain disruption.

You will be experienced in transformation strategy and execution; and have the gravitas to influence change agenda for category management at multiple levels of the organisation. You will be able to empathetically lead strategic change agenda for procurement organisation and act as thought leader to business, our internal teams and suppliers to inspire with latest market trends, insights and innovation.

You will have strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability and conceptual thinking; with excellent persuasive written, analytical and verbal skills to craft compelling, data-driven narratives. You will proactively take ownership and act with integrity to deliver required results, empowering others and rolling sleeves up as necessary.

You will problem-solve within highly complex and ambiguous situations; and understand risks and appropriate control options. You will collaborate to drive consistent performance, value, and innovation from key supply partners through well-articulated account plans; and thrive in a hypothesis-led environment and ability to framework challenges from a commercial perspective.

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