Category Manager - Global Facilities

Adobe Adobe · Enterprise · Lehi, UT +2

Adobe is seeking a Category Manager for Global Facilities to lead strategic sourcing projects, partner with internal teams and suppliers to optimize spend, and manage contract obligations. The role involves developing RFx activity, leading negotiations, ensuring risk mitigation with Legal, and reporting progress. The ideal candidate will have experience in strategic sourcing with an emphasis on facilities, familiarity with financial planning, and strong communication and analytical skills.

What you'd actually do

  1. 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 facilities
  2. Build strong trusted relationships with senior internal partners through understanding their objectives and bridging them with those of Global Strategic Sourcing (GSS)
  3. Proactively seek value-creating opportunities across spend categories
  4. Oversee the process of disseminating and following contract obligations, and instituting a complete strategy to approach renewal.
  5. Demonstrates expertise in facility trends and commercial models, and apt to train others on the same across the organization.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or similar
  • Strategic Sourcing/Procurement experience
  • Familiarity with fiscal planning cycles and ad hoc financial analysis
  • Excellent emotional intelligence (EQ)
  • Mastery of MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Familiarity with BI reporting and spend analysis
  • High attention to detail
  • 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
  • Willing to train and educate users in new processes, policies, and procedures or technologies
  • Handles own workload and priorities effectively

Nice to have

  • MBA, or JD
  • Strategic Sourcing/Procurement-related industry certification(s)