Category Manager - Indirect
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Oct 21, 2019
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- Category
- Executive / Management
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field can’t be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. You’ll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers’ lives. We’ll help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And you’ll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
The Category Management Senior Consultant is a key role supporting assigned category strategies as a subject matter expert with a focus on internal and external data gathering, analysis and reporting. The role requires implementation of ongoing category management intelligence, effectively analyzing spend within categories, undertaking market research and internal demand analysis to support category strategies. Works closely with category managers to support developing category strategy, maintenance, performance and oversight by proactively delivering research and insights as needed to internal customers regarding category performance and marketplace performance to meet category objectives. The category scope for this role includes the following indirect spend categories: data, business intelligence, underwriting services (e.g. paramedical examiners, property inspections, catastrophic modeling, correct classification), third party administrators (e.g. assigned risk, write your own flood), and financial services (payment card processing, lockbox services, collections, corporate card).
Key Responsibilities
- Determine, quantify and resolve primary business opportunities and key drivers by analyzing data and developing actionable business insights that support the goals of our internal customers
- Mine existing research and spend data on a regular basis to communicate insights synthesized from multiple sources and different data sets to provide innovative analysis of key business opportunities
- Analyze current spend data to present business insights to category leadership team
- Analyze syndicated data to identify current industry trends, forecast future trends and recognize potential opportunities to implement solutions.
- Identify consumption barriers, seasonality and channel preferences to develop consumer insights needed to identify potential new opportunities.
- Act as a subject matter expert for team members and procurement teams with ad hoc projects and requests and perform project based analytics associated with operational efficiencies
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job does not have direct supervisory duties
Job Qualifications
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 6 or more years of procurement experience
- Experience and subject matter expertise in one or more of the in-scope spend categories is strongly preferred
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- CPM and/or CPSM desirable
Job Qualifications (Cont'd)
Functional Skills
- Advanced analytical abilities and problem-solving techniques in understanding data collection and the ability to develop intuitive and actionable insights
- Ability to work cooperatively and cross-functionally with business leaders, cultivating positive relationships and providing support to others to extend the team capabilities
- Advanced ability to transform data into insights by pulling data from different areas with the goal of creating a compelling story beyond report generation.
- Demonstrates initiative and utilizes experience when solving problems and offering new ideas and adapts methods based on customer feedback
- Independent thought-leader; self-motivated and self-directed work style; ability to work with a diverse team
- Strong and interpersonal skills; ability to articulate clear direction and influence others
- Excellent project management, prioritization and resource utilization abilities
Confidence to work independently as the primary subject matter expert in assigned categories
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary – but that’s just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, you’ll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.
It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race, religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited. This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment
Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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