Category Manager – Engineering

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         
At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

Category Manager – Engineering

This exciting opportunity will be a key position within the procurement organization, responsible for developing and implementing regional category strategies to align with Four Seasons capability and spend ambitions. The regional Category Manager for engineering is responsible for developing, executing, and managing the procurement strategy for engineering categories across the Four Seasons properties regionally.

This role includes collaborating with the Four Seasons, Design Services, Regional Business Partners and Property Directors of Engineering and Procurement. The role will be operating in an agile environment and working in cross-functional teams to ensure a high-quality, consistent, and efficient buying process.

It will require the demonstration of In-depth knowledge of procurement best practices through consistent application across the full portfolio of spend, an ability to Introduce new and more efficient ways of operating and identifying local and regional requirements while implementing regional standards.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Purchasing Management and Reporting

• Leveraging competitive commercial approaches whenever possible to optimize savings and business value, including identifying new vendors.
• Building and implementing annual category plans to drive the strategic management of related spend at Four Seasons, including creating and managing pipeline planning.
• Conducting regular spend analysis to identify trends and opportunities by category, subcategory, business unit and geography as required.
• Leveraging internal and external resources to stay apprised of relevant industry and category trends, both regionally & globally
• Responsibility for preparing all procurement-related documents including but not limited to; RFx, project budgets, status reports.
• Performing required contract management activities, including processing amendments, monitoring expiration dates, updating supporting documentation, etc..
• Monitoring supplier KPIs and facilitating remediation of any notable or recurring performance issues with key strategic suppliers.
• Managing negotiations with new suppliers in relation to all key business requirements
• Developing relationships & co-operating with relevant business stakeholders across Four Seasons maximizing buy-in and driving awareness of strategic category initiatives

Reporting

• Managing cost savings tracking and assisting with preparing annual cost savings analysis report.
• Own reporting and adherence to regional category strategy within properties in conjunction with the regional business partner

People Management

• Working closely with regional business partners to ensure compliance within hotel locations to regional category strategies.
• Operating as a team player across the organization who effectively collaborates with business units and functional partners.

Other

• Contributing process improvements to increase the efficiency and value of the team to the organization.
• Performing other work or special projects as assigned by Head of procurement.
• Ad-hoc projects which occur through working with the business partners/regional hotels.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Bring:

• 5-7 years’ experience in procurement and/or Engineering procurement experience.
• A professional certification i.e., CPSM or CSCP is desirable.
• Undergraduate degree in business (or related field) and/or Certified Supply Chain Management Professional, Engineering, or a related field.
• Excellent knowledge and experience in Microsoft Office Word and Excel; working knowledge of PowerPoint.
• Experience in Birchstreet/Microsoft Dynamics desirable.
• Cost Modelling
• Advanced knowledge of procurement techniques, supplier management, pricing methods, bid process, contract formation and ongoing management.
• Good commercial acumen from both strategic and operational perspectives.
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills
• Market knowledge & experience working within the Engineering Industry
• Experience with the design and implementation of category planning & savings initiatives.
• Proven track record of achieving category savings via sourcing, demand management and / or policy compliance. 
• Global exposure an asset.

Key Skills/Who You Are:

• Strong analytical and research skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in a change management environment
• Ability to work under pressure and meet various deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent oral and written communication, organization, and planning skills.
• Flexible and dependable.

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid

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