# Senior Category Management Specialist

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: Everett, WA, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,050 - $153,000
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

Boeing Global Services (BGS) is seeking a Senior Category Management Specialist to join our Supply Chain Strategy team in Everett, WA, Dallas, TX, Plano, TX, or Seattle, WA.

This position is responsible for developing and implementing category plans to improve supply chain delivery and execution, integral to the profitable execution of BGS business. The successful candidate is a motivated, self-starter who will apply structure and discipline to drive innovation and create value for Boeing and its customers.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead Supply Chain strategy, including suppliers to grow, maintain, develop, and exit

- Develop and manage strategic supplier relationships

- Inform sourcing activities, including strategic sourcing, alternate/dual sourcing, part qualification, customer qualification/approval, and long-term contracting

- Negotiate agreements, including letters of intent (LOIs), memorandums of understanding (MOUs), pricing, distribution rights/agreements, capacity agreements, exclusivity rights, and most favored nation terms

- Issue and assess requests for information (RFI), requests for proposal (RFP), requests for quote (RFQ), and other solicitations

- Develop new sources/manufacturers, including conducting capability assessments, capacity assessments, customer and part qualification, and approval

- Collaborate with BCA and BDS Category Management business units

- Apply best practices and structure to manage and drive projects to fruition; able to prioritize multiple critical projects

- Practice goal-directed thinking and action in situations for which no routine solutions exist

- Demonstrate ability to map processes of possible consequences of decisions, to work out the importance of individual factors, and to decide the best course of action

- Knowledge and understanding of the methodology, processes, and tools associated with risk mitigation, opportunity management, and issue resolution

- Ability to identify risks, opportunities, and issues across functional and organizational boundaries; understand constraints to develop mitigation plans, capture plans, and resolution plans; identify the best course of action; and establish appropriate performance metrics to track progress

- Action-oriented, self-motivated driver that's accountable for results

- Drive business impact even when certain elements are complex or ambiguous

- Develop and use collaborative relationships within and outside the organization to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals

- Build rapport and trust among stakeholders and leverage the organization's dynamics to promote program goals by focusing on a shared vision

- Work effectively and efficiently across functional, organizational, and geographic boundaries and within a matrix organization to influence people who don't directly report to you to execute on priorities

- Effectively explore alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties

- Communicate effectively up and down the organization and skillfully present to executive leadership

**Basic Qualifications:**

- 10+ years of Supply Chain experience in the Aerospace industry

- 5+ years of experience in Supply Base Management or Program Management

- 5+ years of experience in supply chain contracting

- Ability to travel to support business and team requirements (approximately 25%)

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field

- 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain Category Management, Supplier Contracting, Procurement Strategy, or Consulting

**Benefits:**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and other benefits

**Pay Range:**

$130,050 - $153,000

## Skills

### Required
- Supply Chain Management
- Strategic Sourcing
- Contract Negotiation
- Risk Mitigation
- Project Management

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management
- Supply Chain Category Management
- Supplier Contracting
- Procurement Strategy
- Consulting

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