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Your role and responsibilities As a Procurement Sourcing Professional: Category Management & Knowledge Leader, you will provide strategic leadership, guidance, and subject matter expertise across global category management activities. You will combine deep category knowledge with the ability to design, implement, and continuously improve sourcing strategies that deliver measurable business value.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

- Lead Category Strategy Development: Design, implement, and continuously improve sourcing strategies that deliver measurable business value, ensuring alignment between global strategies and local execution.

- Conduct Market Research and Benchmarking: Analyze spend data to identify trends and opportunities, and conduct market research and benchmarking to inform category strategies.

- Coach and Mentor Category Teams: Promote capability development and foster collaboration to ensure consistent, auditable, and compliant sourcing processes.

- Develop and Maintain Category Playbooks: Build and maintain category playbooks, sourcing wave plans, and best-practice documentation to enable knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

- Ensure Governance and Compliance: Manage contractual commitments, maintain transparency through accurate documentation, and ensure adherence to sourcing policies.

Required education Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

- Category Management Expertise: Experience with designing, implementing, and continuously improving sourcing strategies that deliver measurable business value, combining deep category knowledge with strategic thinking.

- Strategic Sourcing Leadership: Experience in leading the development and deployment of category strategies, conducting market research and benchmarking,



and analyzing spend data to identify trends and opportunities.

- Project Management Skills: Experience with managing complex initiatives across geographies and organizational structures, requiring robust skills in project management, planning, and stakeholder engagement.

- Knowledge Leadership: Experience in building and maintaining category playbooks, sourcing wave plans, and best-practice documentation to enable knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

- Contract Governance: Experience with managing contractual commitments, maintaining transparency through accurate documentation, and ensuring adherence to sourcing policies.

Preferred technical and professional experience

- Agile Methodology Experience: Familiarity with agile methodologies to adapt strategies in response to evolving business and market conditions, enabling effective change management and continuous improvement.

- Change Management Skills: Experience with change management principles to support the implementation of new strategies and processes, ensuring minimal disruption to business operations.

- Consultative Capabilities: Exposure to consultative approaches to represent category expertise in client interactions, due diligence, and sales support, promoting effective stakeholder engagement and collaboration.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT IBM Finance & Operations (F&O;) provides critical capabilities that enable IBM to operate as a data-driven enterprise powered by intelligent workflows. Our teams span Finance, Transformation & Operations, Strategy, and Mergers & Acquisitions. We partner across the company to drive business performance, enterprise transformation, and long-term growth.

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OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Locations - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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