Real Estate & Facilities Sourcing Senior Manager - The Boston Consulting Group

As the Category Manager, you will bring world-class sophistication to our procurement activities on a consistent basis.  

• Through deep analysis actively find opportunities, develop strategy and category plans that deliver significant value, implement and drive those through, guiding and managing stakeholders along the way  
• Procure a full range of global Facilities and Capital Projects projects, including office fit-out catering, cleaning, reception, security and real estate brokerage 
• Integrate and build relationships with stakeholders. Identify key buyers, collaborate with those to increase savings as well as the value we receive from our vendor base  
• Be seen as a Trusted Advisor to the Global Real Estate team 
• Ability to Influence senior stakeholders to deliver the best commercial and operational outcomes for BCG  
• Build strong relationships with suppliers that deliver value across the whole life cycle of the procurement and supplier management process  
• Prepare, issue, and manage RFx process; evaluate proposals; make recommendations using internal and external data sources  
• Mitigating vendor related risk, and contribute in managing the category vendor base  
• Establish effective communication channels, performance metrics and sharing of BCG best-practice within network  
• Negotiate contracts/agreements within the parameters provided by internal Legal team  
• Track and monitor spend, vendors and market development  
• Increase spend under Procurement's management within category  
• Support and provide input to the Center of Excellence in the implementation of purchasing processes, structures and supporting tools, to enable capture of savings and long-term development  

The Category Manager will report to the Category Leadership. This individual should expect to have a great deal of interaction with Regional and Global Leadership and people on all levels and functions within BCG. A certain amount of travel will also be part of the job.