Senior Category Lead - Global Procurement and Real Estate Team - McKinsey & Company - Miami, FL

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Business / Finance / Engineering or related fields is required; Advanced degree a plus

More than 4 years of professional business experience in Procurement/Sourcing, Finance, Operations Supply Chain or related field

Ability to quickly build credibility and influence internal stakeholders

Collaborative problem solving with stakeholders with a high level of critical thinking

Demonstrate leadership and show judgement when developing new approaches, prioritizing multiple requests, and resolving issues while demonstrating customer-oriented solutions

Proven track record of driving innovation and change in the assigned spend category

Demonstrate Strong project management, business acumen, verbal and written skills

Clear understanding of business operations and core Procurement skills (spend management, category management, supply market analysis)

Use data effectively to influence change

Natural drive and ambition to learn and improve

Mastery of Excel, Microsoft suite of products, deep understanding of RFx processes

Who You’ll Work With
You’ll work in our Miramar office and collaborate with various internal groups and functions across the firm who will be your stakeholders.

More broadly you will be part of McKinsey’s Global Purchasing and Real Estate (GPRE) group, which is responsible for bringing value to and managing our firm’s expenditures specifically related to Global Travel Services (GTS), Real Estate (RE), Meeting Planning Services (MPS), and Global Procurement Group (GPG).

What You’ll Do
You will be responsible for bringing value to, and managing the firm’s expenditures specifically related to indirect categories of spend. The primary spend category you will focus on is Temporary Labor services and Human Capital Services, such as benefits or learning. You will be responsible for negotiating and sourcing McKinsey’s global spend through stakeholder engagement, category development and management, spend rationalization; vendor consolidation and leverage of global footprint to bring value to the Firm at the office, practice, and regions.

Although you will manage spend on a regional basis (primary focus: US, Canada, Mexico, secondary focus: LATAM: Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru), there may be some spend categories that span out global organization. A large part of this role is to develop (yearly) actionable category plans to support the group’s goals and the tenets of our teams mission : high client experience, operational excellence, total value. The categories are medium to high complexity and require extremely close collaboration with internal stakeholders for successful category and project execution.

You should demonstrate strong analytical, innovation, emotional intelligence, innate curiosity, and entrepreneurial skills and must have passion for working in a dynamic, fast moving, decentralized, and highly collaborative environment that may sometimes feel ambiguous and without a formal structure. You should have the following capabilities:

– Develop the plan for a category or categories of spend as it relates to temporary labor and contingent services, human capital services such as learning or benefits.

– With moderate oversight, develop and implement end-to-end global category strategies (goals, supplier rationalization, processes) to save money and operate effectively

– Thoroughly understand the procurement process and easily navigate through its stages

– Demonstrate ability to succinctly and clearly articulate and share information through presentations, with support

– Negotiate through completion and/or work closely with Contract Management and Legal

– Act as the project manager/owner for multiple concurrent projects

– Demonstrate ability to continuously improve the organization

– Demonstrate actionable results by delivering against targets for financial performance and client impact

– Deliver against addressable spend and savings (hard and soft) targets and required service levels

– Educate and influence stakeholders to make the most value oriented purchasing decisions

– Manage regional activities for category spend ensuring successful relationships with suppliers, the team’s management of performance metrics and dispute resolution solutions

– Using advanced purchasing principles review, negotiate and manage contracts to ensure continuous improvement, increase savings and reduce risk.

– Contribute to departmental initiatives, providing insight to leading procurement best-practices and supplier initiatives and innovations.

– Teach others on team to understand strategic aspects of contracts and contract provisions. Provide peer coaching and feedback to colleagues