Senior Category Manager (m/w/d) Global IT Procurement

Telefónica Global Services is the Global Procurement team of the Telefónica Group that supports Telefónica Operations in Europe and Latin- America. This includes the global responsibilities in all procurement opportunities. 

Key Accountabilities

• Category Management / Category Strategy definition: Definition of a category strategy identifying actions to maximize efficiencies for Telefonica with an E2E view, including
• Process leadership in the implementation of the defined Category Strategy.
• Execution of the Negotiation/RFP process.

Job holder profile

Computer Science Engineer or other Engineering/Relevant studies according to the Categories identified.

• Technical competences:
  • Several years of experience in a complex procurement role
  • Probed, detailed and extended knowledge of the IT market and enterprise projects in the areas of are desired: IT Services, IT Hardware and IT Software
• Leadership skills
  • Drive/ objective oriented: Ambitious/driven character constantly looking for improvement opportunities, ability to work independently with limited guidance 
  • Owner mindset : Proactive, striving to avoid all sources of inefficiencies in Telefonica spend (end-to-end) 
• Strategic/Analytical skills
  • Problem Solving Skills: Ability to de-compose a complex problem in a series of specific sub-items, define key analysis and derive and communicate conclusions 
  • Strong data analysis skills: Comfortable treating and analysing high amount of data to derive actionable insights/conclusions 
• Procurement specific knowledge
  • Negotiation and influencing skills,’ to be applied internally and with suppliers.
  • General knowledge about finance, logistics and International commerce.
• Languages
  • Fluent in Spanish and English languages
  • German or Brazilian Portuguese would be an advantage