Associate Category Manager

As the Associate Category Manager with the Store Experience Fixtures team, you'll be responsible for category strategy development with a long-term commercial plan. This will include strategic sourcing, negotiation, contracting, supplier and stakeholder relationship management and innovation provision. You'll reduce total cost of ownership by leveraging world-class negotiation and sourcing strategies, using tools and processes, and mitigating risk. You'll achieve this by developing contracts for non-merchandise goods and services acquired by Best Buy. In this role, you'll consistently work with senior-level stakeholders and strategic suppliers.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days on-site at the Best Buy location listed on this posting and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain a rolling 3-year category strategy for assigned areas of spend by researching and forecasting market and industry dynamics
• Proactively identify supplier relationships opportunities
• Lead the development and execution of sourcing strategies for assigned categories of spend
• Present category and sourcing strategies, influencing business partners and stakeholders on value proposition
• Manage supplier relationships for effective exchange of information, optimizing engagement value for Best Buy
• Help set financial targets, metrics, forecasting, risk assessment and other measures that ensure accurate financial results

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, sales, finance, or contracting (legal work)
• Experience mentoring, cross-functional team management, or influencing without authority

Preferred Qualifications

• 6 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, sales, finance or similar
• 2 years of experience in management or influencing without authority
• Expertise in use of procurement Source to Pay tools and practices such as supplier diversity programs, TCO calculation, etc.
• Demonstrated negotiation, analytical, planning and execution skills
• Expert MS Office skills, emphasis on Excel and ability to complete complex spend or data analysis
• Strong organization, communication, presentation, and collaboration skills

What's in it for you
We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay
• Generous employee discount
• Physical and mental well-being support

About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

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