Category Manager

Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen. 
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

Adobe purchases products and services from thousands of suppliers each year. We aim to accelerate Adobe's continued commercial success through outstanding strategic sourcing. You will have the chance to lead sourcing projects while you partner with internal teams and suppliers to optimize spend across Adobe's indirect and direct categories.

What you'll do

• Serve as a liaison with internal business partners and external suppliers in the strategies and execution of sophisticated and impactful sourcing projects related to Adobe’s consumption of Mobile, Colocation, Internet Bandwidth, Computer Hardware & Peripherals, AV Hardware, Telecom.
• Build strong trusted relationships with senior internal partners through understanding their objectives and bridging them with those of Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS)
• Proactively seek value-creating opportunities across spend categories
• Oversee the process of disseminating and following contract obligations and instituting a complete strategy to approach renewal.
• Demonstrates expertise in hardware, software categories and commercial models, and apt to train others on the same across the organization.
• Develop, issue, and coordinate RFx activity and lead commercial negotiations to find the best sourcing solution for Adobe.
• Ensure proper risk mitigation through liaising and contributing with Legal. Help internal partners obtain robust Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure reliable performance.
• Report progress on a weekly basis, indicating work planning and work in progress. Add agreements, service details and payment forecasts into procurement systems in a complete and timely manner.
• Drive continuous improvement and organizational change initiatives.
• Key contributor to the strategic direction of Sourcing/Procurement initiatives.

What You’ll Need

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or similar (preference: MBA, or JD).
• Strategic Sourcing/Procurement-related industry certification(s) a plus.
• Preference: 3-5 years’ experience in Strategic Sourcing with an emphasis in Employee Hardware, Telecom, Internet Bandwidth, Colocation.
• Deep market knowledge, contracting trends, licensing models, and business models.
• Familiarity with fiscal planning cycles and ad hoc financial analysis.
• Exemplify excellent emotional intelligence (EQ) and positively influencing various partners, and improving business dynamics both within Global Procurement and broadly across Adobe; evidence of continuous positive customer feedback.
• Growth mentality: aware of personal strengths and weaknesses; great at receiving, applying, and giving useful feedback.
• Mastery of MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with BI reporting and spend analysis.
• High attention to detail and the exercise of sound judgment and decision-making.
• Has exceptional written and verbal communications, time management and interpersonal skills.
• Able to synthesize and present complex matters and data analysis in executive presentation views with insightful commentary.
• Must be willing to train and educate users in new processes, policies, and procedures or technologies.
• Handles own workload and priorities effectively. Flexible working times based on company requirements and should be expected at various times through the business year and quarter.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $95,100 -- $184,000 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.

At Adobe, for sales roles starting salaries are expressed as total target compensation (TTC = base + commission), and short-term incentives are in the form of sales commission plans.  Non-sales roles starting salaries are expressed as base salary and short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP).

In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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