Global Category Lead Meetings, Conferences, Events, Travel & Fleet

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Job Description

About this Role:

This role is a member of the Indirect Procurement Leadership team providing global leadership for Meetings Conferences Events Travel and Fleet. It leads category strategy and a team of category professionals to connect business and program needs with supplier strategy commercial models contracts user experience compliance sustainability resilience and value delivery.

OBJECTIVES:

• Define and lead an integrated global strategy for Meetings Conferences Events Travel and Fleet that supports business priorities user experience compliance sustainability resilience and total cost.
• Serve as a strategic partner to senior business leaders and relevant program owners shaping demand service models supplier choices and investment priorities before commitments are made.
• Build a competitive and resilient global supplier ecosystem with appropriate regional and local solutions clear governance and measurable performance outcomes.
• Lead and develop the category team while creating consistent global frameworks that enable effective regional and market execution.
• Lead enterprise wide initiatives for selected subcategories to drive excellence in external spend management
• Partner with key functions such as Meetings & Travel Center of Excellence embedded meetings planners and fleet managers in the business to drive consistent approaches in relevant categories across the board.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Develop and continuously evolve category strategies for meetings conferences events travel and fleet using spend demand process supplier risk and market intelligence.
• Manage selected subcategories along with the rest of the team to drive category excellence.
• Partner with Finance business functions Operations Legal Risk Compliance Technology and regional teams to connect sourcing choices with operating model control transformation and business objectives.
• Shape demand and service models by challenging scope role mix locations process design automation potential service levels pricing mechanisms and supplier dependencies.
• Lead make versus buy insource versus outsource supplier consolidation benchmark and competitive sourcing decisions where appropriate while protecting critical expertise and continuity.
• Own strategic sourcing negotiation and contracting frameworks including master agreements statements of work pricing structures rate cards service levels incentives performance guarantees audit rights data protections and transition provisions.
• Establish supplier segmentation and governance for strategic and critical providers including executive reviews performance scorecards continuous improvement innovation issue resolution and remediation.
• Lead the most complex and enterprise critical commercial initiatives while enabling category managers to execute within the approved global strategy and frameworks.
• Create transparency across total spend addressable spend demand drivers contracts rate and fee structures supplier performance concentration risk and value realization.
• Integrate third party risk regulatory financial control data privacy information security business continuity sustainability and responsible sourcing requirements into category decisions.
• Maintain appropriate independence and governance boundaries for regulated or assurance services while pursuing commercial value and high quality delivery.
• Translate enterprise and functional priorities into a global category strategy multi year roadmap and clearly governed initiative pipeline.
• Establish clear global regional and local decision rights and enable execution within common strategies preferred supplier models commercial frameworks and buying channels.
• Own the end to end portfolio view including spend visibility category taxonomy sourcing pipeline contracts supplier performance risk tail spend and value realization.
• Use market intelligence advanced analytics automation and responsible AI solutions to improve decision quality speed transparency and Procurement productivity.
• Lead coach and develop category managers and associates raising the quality and consistency of category strategies and execution across the portfolio.
• Allocate capacity and priorities across the portfolio making clear trade offs based on enterprise value business urgency risk and available resources.
• Foster a culture of accountability curiosity inclusion collaboration continuous improvement and strong business partnership.

EDUCATION BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS:

• Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain Finance Economics or a related field required; Masters degree or MBA preferred.

Behavioral:

• As members of Global Procurement you are expected to demonstrate ways of working that support our strategic ambition and shape how we create value for Takeda. You will contribute to a procurement function that:
• Shapes strategy upstream through close business partnership
• Delivers total enterprise value beyond savings
• Takes ownership of spend and outcomes end to end
• Uses curiosity insights and data to drive better decisions

Competencies and skills:

• Subject matter expertise across several relevant categories such as meetings and events agencies venues event production group travel transient travel travel management services airlines lodging ground transportation payment solutions fleet management or vehicle leasing.
• 10 years of experience in procurement category management supply chain supplier management or a related commercial function within complex global organizations.
• Demonstrated success developing and executing global category strategies and delivering measurable enterprise value.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen including strategic sourcing negotiation supplier economics total cost of ownership contract strategy and value realization.
• Ability to influence and constructively challenge senior leaders across functions business units and geographies.
• Experience leading cross functional transformation in a highly matrixed and regulated environment.
• Deep understanding of supplier segmentation relationship management performance governance third party risk business continuity and sustainable procurement.
• Strong analytical and executive communication skills with the ability to turn market supplier spend and performance data into clear decisions and compelling narratives.
• Demonstrated people leadership talent development change leadership and experience leading globally distributed teams.
• Experience using digital tools automation analytics and AI enabled approaches to improve procurement outcomes.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Preferred experience:

• Experience in the pharmaceutical biotechnology healthcare financial services or another highly regulated global industry.
• Experience with meetings and events operating models travel programs fleet programs or related technology and data ecosystems.
• Knowledge of global and local market dynamics including how enterprise strategies must adapt to regulatory service and market requirements.
• Experience balancing stakeholder experience with commercial sustainability compliance and operational priorities.

Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary

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For Location:

Boston MA

U.S. Base Salary Range:

$177000.00 - $278080.00

The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position years of relevant experience specific and unique skills level of education attained certifications or other professional licenses held and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.

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Locations

Boston MA

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

Job Exempt

Yes

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