About Kenvue Kenvue is a leading healthcare company built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science. We're the house of iconic brands, including NEUTROGENA, AVEENO, TYLENOL, LISTERINE, JOHNSON'S, and BAND-AID. Our global team of 22,000 diverse and brilliant people are passionate about insights, innovation, and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. Our values drive us: we put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science, and solve with courage. We have brilliant opportunities waiting for you. The Sr. Manager, IT and Professional Services is responsible for supporting the daily management & development of category practices for Consulting services, IT & Professional services, including sourcing strategy definition, supplier negotiation, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of ownership, savings, and procurement's value contribution while achieving compliance with policies, strategies, and processes. Key Responsibilities: - Defines Category Strategy for IT and Professional Services - Analyzes category and defines category profile, including risk assessment, supply base assessment, demand management, consulting policy, and SRM strategy - Benchmarks category practices to identify improvement initiatives - Builds category specific strategic plan in alignment with the regions / countries and aligns strategic plan to financial budget and global business strategies - Delivers financial, ESG, service, and innovation targets - Daily management of tactical tasks aligning with category strategy - Learns global Information Technology and Professional Services category strategy implementation and savings realization - Initiates internal and external analysis (industry and supplier) - Consolidates requirements, acting as a business partner for business / other functions - Learns contract implementation and drives contract compliance - Accountable for efficient alignment enablement / activation of negotiation outcomes - Supports the work and efforts of a cross-functional Sourcing Team in all stages of a strategic sourcing project - Collaborates and aligns with global / regional / local procurement teams as applicable - Collaborates with finance to reconcile cost savings & cost avoidances - Contributes to leading practice exchange throughout Procurement organization - Learns RFX execution including with RFX strategy & supplier selection and drives fact-based negotiations - Collaborates with legal to finalize contractual agreement and its administration - Works with Procurement Leads to implement and activate contracts globally - Manages commercial supplier relationship management with key suppliers - Maintains and manages relationship with key suppliers in the selected category and region - Learns supplier development activities; sets up cross-functional review meetings with key strategic suppliers - Supports the identification of potential contract improvement opportunities and re-negotiations - Manages relationship with key stakeholders and business representatives - Provides input on volume/ specification/ price to build smart consumption policies - Acts as escalation point for category related issues - Achieves 'buy-in' from key stakeholders for major procurement initiatives - Is a business partner to the regional Category Manager - Manages relationship with regional and local business units - Owes price information, contributing to budgeting process - Supports resource allocation between global and regional / local category initiatives - Promotes / escalates region specific procurement requirements on a global level - Acts as point of contact for the business to assure business requirements are met - Delivers annual cost reduction/savings according to the defined targets - Aligns to company wide Diversity goals and supplier value capture objectives