Global Procurement - Senior Category Manager

Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Category Corporate Job Id WHQ00024480 Finance Job Type Full-Time Posted Date 02/10/2025
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Achieving our goals starts with supporting yours. Grow your career, access top-tier health and wellness benefits, build lasting connections with your team and our customers, and travel the world using our extensive route network.

Come join us to create what’s next. Let’s define tomorrow, together.

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Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward.

Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups.

Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together.

We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals.

Key Responsibilities:

The Global Procurement - Senior Category Manager handles sourcing for their respective category and leads cross-functional supplier qualification and sourcing activities for assigned categories. This role is the strategic interface towards suppliers and is accountable for building strong and strategic supplier relationships, ensuring alignment, anticipating changes, and driving activities based on supply market changes and recommendations of task forces.

The Global Procurement - Senior Category Manager supports United’s Global Procurement efficiently, entirely leading sourcing initiatives within the designated categories. This role is responsible for meeting and exceeding business objectives regarding the scope of service, quality, risk mitigation, delivery timing, and cost.

  • Lead end-to-end accountability for defining the category and supplier strategy with partners in line with the mentorship of the commercial task force.
  • Drive supplier selection according to category strategy, supplier base development, task force recommendations, and identification of new suppliers.
  • Negotiate contractual terms to drive savings and reduce overall risks while ensuring partners’ needs are met.
  • Ensures alignment, anticipates changes, and drives activities based on supply market changes and recommendations of task forces.
  • Lead business relationships with key internal partners and external suppliers, including routine improvements to agreements, communication of demand/volume changes, updating contracts, and sharing end-user feedback.
  • Promotes partnership and communication between internal partners across participating entities.
  • Lead the creation and management of Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quote (RFQ), and Request for Proposal (RFP) documents to solicit bids and evaluate suppliers.
  • Leverage Coupa knowledge to streamline purchasing, track orders, and lead supplier relationships.
  • Apply criteria such as cost, quality, delivery, and capacity to select the best suppliers.

United's team is comprised of many talented individuals all working together with cutting-edge technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team designs, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.

Qualifications

What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, or another business-related field.
  • 4+ years of consulting, sourcing, legal, audit, or finance experience
  • Highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship building skills.
  • Strong cross-functional leadership skills.
  • Experience with both internal partner and supplier relationship management,
  • Ability to work independently.
  • Efficient conflict resolution skills.
  • Excellent market information analysis skills and supply market knowledge
  • Skilled in strategic-minded project management
  • Works well in a high-paced, cross-functional environment

What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

  • Master's degree and/or MBA
  • 5+ year track record in Strategic Procurement
  • Previous experience with assigned category preferred
  • Experience/understanding of airport operations, business partners, contracts, policy and any compliance efforts
  • CPM (Certified Purchasing Manager)
  • Experience with transportation fuel, aviation fuel
  • Proficient in data analysis and visualization, reporting and business intelligence tools.

The base pay range for this role is $99,750.00 to $135,960.00.
The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards.

You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.
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Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Category Corporate
JobId WHQ00024480
Job Speciality Finance
Type Full-Time
PostedDate 02/10/2025
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