About the Role

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Procurement, the Sr. Manager Procurement – HR Services (i.e. Benefits, Talent, Equality) will be responsible for shaping the vision, strategy, and execution of HR Services categories. This role has will contribute towards supporting Gap Inc’s NextGen Procurement Transformation, advancing cross-functional engagement and shaping the future of Procurement.

The Sr. Manager will engage and establish partnerships across Gap and suppliers to collaborate, influence, and to be a creative thought partner that consistently delivers value. The Sr. Manager should lead and inspire by focusing on the development, implementation, and execution of sourcing strategies and processes across Procurement, to enable a competitive advantage and maximize the functional ROI for Gap Inc.

What You’ll Do

• Value Capture - Accountable and oversee development and execution of procurement strategies for the HR Services categories. Responsible for achieving procurement savings (P&L, Capital and Non-P&L) targets for this category. Create and manage a multi-year pipeline of projects that will deliver value year over year. Actively seeking industry best practice and innovative solutions to advance procurement value creation.

• Sourcing Rigor - Actively promote a competitive bid culture for HR Services projects by applying advanced levers and strong shift in how the team works.

• Category Management – Develop deep category strategies with the focus of category management expertise that translates into actionable multi-year sourcing strategies. Building and developing high-performing category management teams.

• Procurement Technology and Advanced Sourcing Capabilities – have a strong understanding and experience with using procurement technology (i.e. spend analytics, sourcing, eAuction, CLM) that will allow you to be more efficient in the ways of working. Develop and maintain in-depth spend analytics, category segmentation and supplier profiling to enable opportunity mining and category management. Analyze and leverage supplier spend data across segmented spend categories.

• Build and strengthen strategic relationships - successfully partner across functions (HR, Finance, Legal, and Risk Management) and partner with senior internal stakeholders, external suppliers, and colleagues to drive results and facilitate complex change management across the enterprise.

• Leverage strong influencing skills - balance speed, different priorities and urgency while proactively considering new alternatives and driving critical thinking to optimize results.

Who You Are

• Experience – 6-8 years of experience in Procurement for global company that has been primarily focused on category management and execution of assigned categories. Demonstrate a strategic mind-set and experience in category management.

• Sourcing Capability - significant experience driving long-term results through category strategies, levering in-depth market knowledge, collaboration and influencing at all levels of a global organization.

• Drive for Results: Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate and lead others in an ambiguous environment to achieve high levels of performance and deliver sustainable results to the organization.

• Excellent executive level communication and presentation skills.

• Change Leadership - Experience leading with and without authority to influence others and drive decision-making. Always driven by questions What If? and Why not?

• In-depth expertise in Category Management and related processes.

• Develop category knowledge and regularly leverage industry experts, associations, peers, and business partners to identify and benchmark best practices.