Get to Know Us:
It's fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they're doing!
At BlackLine, we're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business of enterprise applications.
Since being founded in 2001, BlackLine has become a leading provider of cloud software that automates and controls the entire financial close process. Our vision is to modernize the finance and accounting function to enable greater operational effectiveness and agility, and we are committed to delivering innovative solutions and services to empower accounting and finance leaders around the world to achieve Modern Finance.
Being a best-in-class SaaS Company, we understand that bringing in new ideas and innovative technology is mission critical. At BlackLine we are always working with new, cutting edge technology that encourages our teams to learn something new and expand their creativity and technical skillset that will accelerate their careers.
Work, Play and Grow at BlackLine!
Make Your Mark:
The Senior category manager - Marketing - will support business owners by leading negotiations and supporting stakeholders spend requirements.
You'll Get To:
- Lead negotiations and drive project approval completion.
- Work closely with multiple teams to gather approvals through procurement process.
- Assist with contract and key suppliers to negotiate optimal commercial terms and conditions
- Lead category planning. Ensure strategy incorporates BlackLine's company -wide strategy
- Develop and execute analysis supporting strategic and tactical category plans
- Assist in the development of contracts in accordance with internal legal requirements
- Develop RFXs and analyses for supplier selection. Lead supplier negotiations for the enterprise commercial terms as well as product and services costs.
- Build performance-based supplier relationships that lead to optimal pricing, quality improvements, process improvements and solutions delivery
- Align with functional areas (Marketing) to ensure the cost savings and cost mitigation related to sourcing and supplier management activities
- Ability to utilize interpersonal styles to effectively adapt to new work structures, processes
- Partner with stakeholders and budget owners to support business requirements
- Support stakeholder's spend requirements and priorities by guiding procurement-led initiatives including supplier consolidation and rationalization activities
- Establish preferred suppliers and ensure that proper policies are used and applied
- Understand your assigned category supplier markets. Assess supplier capabilities to meet our internal requirements globally.
- Select supplier sources by guiding competitive sourcing activities
- Manage supplier performance for key suppliers via stakeholder feedback and performance-based metrics and QBR's
- Ensure that appropriate business controls are in place to reduce risk
What You'll Bring:
- Years of Experience in Related Field: 9-15 years of procurement experience
Education: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or a related field; MBA degree or Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) certification is a plus
Technical/Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Extensive experience developing and leading strategic sourcing initiatives for IT, Marketing and related purchases
- Solid analytical skills in performing bid analysis, cost analysis, fair-value analysis, and scenario modeling
- Complex problem-solving skills in development and implementation of creative solutions
- Solid experience with contract negotiations at senior levels
- Experience building solid relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders and suppliers
- Record of successfully influencing a wide range of stakeholders
- Experience leading multi-disciplined projects with minimal amount of supervision
- Experience presenting complex ideas to management in a simplified manner
- Customer service-oriented with the ability to work well as part of a team
Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:
- A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!
- A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives.
- A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered. BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.
BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself have shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture. Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 2 days a week.
