Vendor Category Manager

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Vendor Category Manager (Individual Contributor) with a strong background in supply chain, strategic planning, and cross-functional partnership. This role requires demonstrated experience consulting and influencing senior leaders, leading complex initiatives, and translating ambiguous business needs into structured, executable strategies. The ideal candidate will bring advanced analytical capabilities, strong project management expertise, and the ability to deliver impactful presentations while driving efficiency, cost effectiveness, and innovation across vendor and category management activities in a fast-paced environment.
In this role, you will:

• Lead support functions or operations for multiple business groups and contribute to large scale strategic initiatives
• Ensure efficiency, quality, cost effectiveness of solutions, and pipeline management relating to assigned operations
• Research moderately complex business, operational, and strategic initiatives that require analytical skills, basic knowledge of organizational strategy and Business Execution, and understanding of international business
• Work independently to make recommendations for support function by providing support and leadership
• Assist in the planning and execution of a variety of programs and initiatives that may include risk mitigation, efficiency, and customer experience
• Collaborate and consult with team leaders in developing project plans, policies and procedures
• Provide leadership in management of relationships and implementation of programs, services, and initiatives with cross functional business partners

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong background in Supply Chain
• Experience managing vendor performance management
• Strong analytical skills with ability to turn findings into executable plans to meet business objectives
• Strong project management/strategic experience involving large, complex initiatives
• Ability to create and deliver dynamic presentations
• Demonstrated experience consulting, influencing, and partnering with senior leaders
• Ability to turn preliminary or ambiguous information, ideas, or problems into well-defined plans and solutions
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) skills
• Ability to execute in a fast paced, high demand, environment while balancing multiple priorities

Job Expectations:

• Ability to travel 5% of the time
• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Adherence to in-office attendance expectations
• This position is not eligible for Visa sponsorship

Locations - Only location posted will be considered

• 1525 W. WT Harris Blvd., Charlotte, NC
• 800 S Jordan Creek Pkwy. Des Moines, IA

Posting End Date:
4 Jul 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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