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Contract & Catalog Operations Professional

Target

Target

Contract & Catalog Operations Professional

Minneapolis, MN
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    A role with Strategic Sourcing means building and executing category management plans and sourcing and negotiation approaches for all indirect spend categories. You’ll share and promote the best tactics across the entire company while developing deep category knowledge and close client relationships in each. Focusing on Procurement Operations involves ensuring operational excellence by optimizing inventory management and buying within negotiated contracts and catalogs for indirect goods and services. You’ll manage everyday business and client needs relating to executed contracts, issue resolution and reporting and amendments—all in the name of maximizing value and ensuring business continuity.

    Apply your Contract & Catalog Management knowledge to prequalify vendors and establish and coordinate contracts. Specialize in Sourcing Services to play a role in sourcing processes for the COE while providing strategic insight and partnership throughout the entire sourcing process. Work within Supplier Diversity to focus on evaluating external supplier partnerships and identify additional certified diverse suppliers who can provide innovative, competitively priced goods and services. Here, you’ll help select partners who foster community, economic development and enhance Target’s ability to deliver shareholder value. Or lend your skills to Sourcing Performance Management to design and maintain the systems and financial models that support the COE. Use your technical and analytical aptitude to vet contracts, pricing and other supplier agreements to ensure that pricing assumptions are accurately identified and incorporated with the models. Your input will be key to Target realizing the expected value from the terms of our agreements.

    PRIMARY FUNCTION

    • As a Contract & Catalogs Professional, you’ll take the lead to partner with Sourcing leaders and clients to leverage your working knowledge in the area of Procure to Pay (P2P), exhibiting functional knowledge to tools, processes and techniques to support catalogs and Rate Compliant Spend.
    • As a Professional, you will utilize existing systems and business processes across the functional area to execute work in a timely fashion.
    • By monitoring and utilizing feedback systems, you will be able to inform suppliers and internal partners of adherence to and deviations from documented expectations. In this role, recommending ideas and planning for continuous improvement with internal partner and supplier input is key.
    • Support Sourcing and Procurement on contractual structures of pricing agreements to ensure ability to systematically control pricing and rates.
    • You will work independently with Sourcing and Procurement teams to identify and execute projects associated with catalogs and rate compliant spend while holding them accountable to process and project spend goals.
    • As you assist the COE with the creation of Pricing agreements and amendments you will be capturing information to support rate compliant catalogs.
    • You’ll process related contract pricing documents tied to catalogs for execution and document management.
    • By building new catalogs in SAP & Ariba you will also need to play an active role in maintaining existing catalogs.
    • In this role you will provide support to Sourcing and Procurement on new contracts that will be tied to catalogs and facilitate Amendment and catalog set up/changes between Vendors, SSLs, & Clients.
    • You will be responsible for various reporting needs as it pertains to contracting and rate compliant spend.
    • Troubleshoot and problem solves system/process issues and makes recommendation on improvements to remediate issues or deliver innovation.
    • You’ll take on independent projects to support catalog growth and drive rate compliant spend as well as participate in team projects to ensure contracted pricing is captured appropriately to facilitate catalog set up and ordering.
    • Communicate effectively with support partners, CFT, vendors and COE teams.
    • Reprioritize work with limited direction and complete additional duties as assigned.
    • Job duties may change at any time due to business needs
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  • Qualifications

    About you:

    • 4-year college degree and/or equivalent experience
    • 0-4 years of relevant experience
    • Strong written & verbal communication skills
    • Experience in public speaking and presenting
    • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite and working in enterprise software applications/systems (ex. SAP/Ariba)
    • Ability to maintain a flexible work schedule around sourcing events and support contracting demands
    • Strong analytical and technical aptitude

    Desired Requirements:

    • SAP/Ariba Experience
    • Electronic Signature experience
    • Prior experience and/or familiarity with Contracting Mechanics
  • Industry
    Retail
  • About Us

    Minneapolis-based Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) serves guests at over 1,800 stores and at Target.com. Since 1946, Target has given five percent of its profit to communities, which today equals millions of dollars a week.