Category Leader Engineering Services Job in Renton, Washington US
Category Leader Engineering Services
Location Renton, WA Security Clearance Required? No Security Clearance Required about security clearance definitions Position Description Provides overall Category Management leadership for Software Category. Leads the cross functional team in the development of the category profile, strategy and annual plan. Provides regular reports and gains approval from the Category Council. Leads the development of contracting strategies within the category. Leads the development of negotiation strategies for strategic sourcing events and assesses overall supplier performance across the category. Communicates supplier and organization performance plans risks, issues and opportunities to stakeholders. Key skills include strong leadership, communication and collaborative working together skills along with analytic and strategic planning capabilities. Ability to facilitate agreement on the plan with business partners and other stakeholders, monitor progress against the plan in a cross-functional category team, and identify and implement corrective action to make sure progress is achieved against the plan. Define or apply the category segmentation structure and taxonomy or each category and value/prioritize all of the potential opportunities. Competencies General + Communication Consistently clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Consistently keeps the audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Consistently frames even complex messages in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Consistently seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used; attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Advises fellow project leads and other internal employees in effective communication techniques. + Customer Focus Makes customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions as a project team leader; develops and sustains productive customer relationships as they relate to project team leadership responsibilities; actively seeks information to understand customers circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how project level actions or plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet customer needs and resolve problems; assists other project team leaders in implementing ways to monitor and evaluate customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs. + Decision Making Consistently recognizes a wide range of complex, specialized issues, problems, or opportunities in own work group, across the organization and with external customers; determines whether action is needed. Steadily identifies the need for and collects information to better understand issues, problems, and opportunities. Regularly integrates complex information from a wide variety of sources; detects complex trends, associations, and cause-effect relationships. Consistently creates relevant options for addressing problems/opportunities and achieving desired outcomes. Formulates clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. Consistently implements decisions or initiates action within a reasonable time. Regularly includes fellow project leads, employees across the organization, and external customers in the decision-making process as warranted to obtain good information, make the most appropriate decisions, and ensure buy-in and understanding of the resulting decisions. + Innovation Consistently identifies implicit assumptions in the way complex problems or situations are defined or presented. Sees alternative ways to view or define problems; is not constrained by the thoughts or approaches of other project leads, internal employees or external customers. Consistently draws upon multiple and diverse sources (individuals, disciplines, bodies of knowledge) for ideas and inspiration. Combines ideas in unique ways or makes connections between disparate ideas; explores different lines of thought; views situations from multiple perspectives; brainstorms multiple approaches/solutions. Examines numerous potential solutions and evaluates each before accepting any. Targets important areas for innovation and develops solutions that address meaningful issues in own work areas and thought the organization. + Negotiation Explores all parties needs, concerns, and initial positions as they relate to large/complex negotiations. Builds common ground by highlighting areas of agreement and working through areas of disagreement. Manages the interpersonal process to stay focused on the task; constructively addresses emotions and conflict. Engages in mutual problem solving by brainstorming alternative positions or approaches and evaluating them openly and fairly. Builds value of preferred alternatives by relating them to the needs of others; responds to objections by emphasizing value. Seeks a win-win solution through a give-and-take process. + Project Management Extensive experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant Business Unit projects; identifies time frames for key project milestones and ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion. Directs and manages very complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrate and direct multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. Ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of the overall large scale and complex projects. Identifies and resolves any issues and provide solutions and or recommendations to ensure the successful completion of the project. + Strategic Decision Making Consistently identifies and fills gaps in information required to understand strategic issues. Organizes information and data to identify/explain major trends, problems, and causes; compares and combines information to identify underlying issues. Generates and considers extensive options for actions to achieve a long-range goal or vision; guides others in developing decision criteria considering factors such as cost, benefits, risks, and timing; selects the strategy most likely to succeed. Identifies the key tasks and resources needed to achieve objectives. Makes sure strategies are carried out; consistently monitors results and makes adjustments as needed. Technical + Supplier Information Basic - Extensive and specialized knowledge and ability to analyze and weigh the relative impact of broad range company/supplier information such as, financial data, market position, management capabilities, etc and identify and discern most material and probable outcome. Preferred - Advanced/expert knowledge and ability to analyze and weigh the relative impact of broad range company/supplier information such as, financial data, market position, management capabilities, etc and identify and discern most material and probable outcome. + Supply Chain Strategy Basic - Expert knowledge of supply chain strategies (e.g., inventory reduction, parts kitting, supplier consolidation, optimum flow, lead-time reduction). Preferred - Advanced knowledge of supply chain strategies (e.g., inventory reduction, parts kitting, supplier consolidation, optimum flow, lead-time reduction). Basic Qualifications For Considera