Position Summary: The Procurement Category Manager will lead sourcing strategies for Brand Advertising and Consumer Marketing categories, including RFP management, supplier negotiations, contracting, and category management. This role is responsible for delivering value through strategic supplier partnerships, cost optimization, innovation, and service excellence.
Managing up to$100 million in annual spend, you will oversee key categories including Media (National & Retail), Creative and Content Agencies, Packaging, Production, Influencer Marketing, Partnerships, Consumer Insights & Analytics, and Innovation.
The ideal candidate brings deep marketing procurement expertise within consumer products, wellness, or related industries, along with strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and category strategy experience.
This highly visible role offers the opportunity to influence strategic business decisions, build strong cross-functional partnerships, optimize supplier performance, and drive measurable business impact across a dynamic marketing portfolio.
Key Responsibilities: - Develops and implements long term Holistic Health brand Advertising & Consumer Marketing Spend (including Media investments, excluding trade promotion) Marketing Category Strategies and sourcing pipeline plan to optimize spend, reduce costs, and maximize value for all addressable spend under influence.
- Develops and manage continuous improvement pipeline to deliver significant year over year savings and pipeline opportunities ensuring savings tracking in partnership with Finance.
- Through stakeholder management the incumbent must understand requirements related to business needs.
- Works with the business team to identify and implement initiatives to achieve substantial cost savings and high customer satisfaction.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal teams such as Legal and Marketing organization to negotiate contracts, manage supplier relationships, and ensure product and service availability.
- Executes market research within the category to keep abreast of market conditions and analyze market trends, consumer behavior, and performance metrics to identify opportunities and risks within the category.
- Ensures optimal sourcing, supplier selection, pricing, contracting and commercialization while meeting service level requirements for spend area.
- Ensures effective negotiation and implementation of agreements with suppliers to deliver the greatest overall value.
- Monitors supplier contract compliance on an ongoing basis and develops improvement plans as required for suppliers under procurement management.
- Ensure proactive risk management strategy as well as partnering with the Business Stakeholders to ensure timely issue resolution.
- Complies with all Procurement and company policies, procedures, and practices, and promote adherence across the organization.
Experience & Education Requirements: - Bachelor's degree required, preferably in Business, Engineering, Food Science, or a related field.
- Equivalent professional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 7 to 10 years of progressive experience in Category Management and Procurement.
- Experience with SAP ERP is preferred.Deep subject matter expertise in Marketing categories, including Brand Advertising, Consumer Marketing, and Media investments.
- Strong procurement experience supporting manufacturing, commercial, and corporate functions across diverse operating models.
- Proven ability to build relationships, influence stakeholders, and communicate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- Extensive experience managing marketing spend categories within the consumer products, wellness, nutraceutical, or related industries.
- Strong knowledge of procure-to-pay (P2P) processes, category management, and procurement best practices.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing sourcing strategies that deliver measurable business value and innovative solutions.
- Strategic mindset with the agility to thrive in fast-paced, evolving, and ambiguous environments.
- Self-motivated and results-oriented, with the ability to establish effective processes a
