Senior Category Management Specialist

Job Title: Senior Category Management Specialist

Work Place Flexibility: Hybrid

Legal Entity: Entergy Services, LLC

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.

Note: This is a hybrid positon working at least 3 days a week in office and can be based out of our offices in New Orleans, LA, Jackson, MS, Little Rock, AR, or The Woodlands, TX. The selected candidate, if from outside the area, will be expected to relocate to one of these metro areas. Relocation assistance may be available for this posting.

Job Summary/Purpose

The Senior Staff Category Management Specialist utilizes extensive supply chain, category management, strategic sourcing, and contracting knowledge and experience to implement Supplier Commercial Excellence for an assigned collection of categories. The role is Supply Chain’s single point of contact and strategic lead for a given categories and supports the placement of Entergy’s ~$4B third party spend into the appropriate supply markets. The position is responsible for the utilization of the standard Category Management process of Plan-Strategy-Source-Perform across assigned categories and will operate across multiple cross-functional teams to leverage end-to-end value for an assigned portfolio of spend. The senior staff specialist operates autonomously and in an advisory capacity providing oversight, support, guidance, and training in the technical and professional skills areas to other category management specialists. The role is recognized inside supply chain, and within Entergy, as a subject matter technical adviser on category management, strategic sourcing, contract strategy, methodology, analysis, and contract provisions. The primary objective of the role is to create value through the supply chain in terms of safety, cost, risk mitigation and enhanced supplier performance.

Key interfaces for this position are internal business customers such as a business unit, Tax, Finance, Risk Management, Safety, Human Resources, Legal external suppliers and industry organizations. Within supply chain, common interfaces for this role are Procurement Operations, Capital Projects & Decommissioning and Warehousing and Inventory Management, Safety, and Supplier Diversity.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

+ Actively promote strong safety behaviors and ensure the team always puts safety first. + Utilize key tools, programs, and proactive field visits to assure standards and behaviors. + Monitor and influence suppliers to proactively identify any safety concerns.

Minimum Requirements

Minimum education required of the position

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, accounting, engineering, or other related discipline.

Minimum experience required of the position

+ 3+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 6+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience. + Highly Preferred: Minimum 2+ years’ energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing + 5+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 8+ years of category management, strategic sourcing, or other related supply chain experience. + Highly Preferred: Minimum 2+ years’ energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing + With a degree, 12+ years of category management, strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience OR in lieu of a degree, minimum 16+ years of category management, strategic sourcing or other related supply chain experience. + Highly Preferred: 6+ years’ energy industry supply chain experience in category management or strategic sourcing

Minimum knowledge, skills, and abilities required of the position

Technical

Professional

Any certificates, licenses, etc. required of the position

Preferred: Certification from an industry accreditation organization such as CPSM, APICS, etc.

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Primary Location: Louisiana-New Orleans Louisiana : New Orleans || Arkansas : Little Rock || Mississippi : Jackson || Texas : The Woodlands Job Function: Professional FLSA Status: Professional Relocation Option: No Relocation Offered Union description/code: NON BARGAINING UNIT Number of Openings: 1 Req ID: 119138 Travel Percentage:Up to 25%

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Additional Responsibilities: As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Equal Opportunity

The non-confidential portions of the affirmative action program for individuals with disabilities and protected veterans shall be available for inspection upon request by any employee or applicant for employment. Please contact HRCompliance@entergy.com to schedule a time to review the affirmative action plan during regular office hours.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

As a provider of essential services, Entergy expects its employees to be available to work additional hours, to work in alternate locations, and/or to perform additional duties in connection with storms, outages, emergencies, or other situations as deemed necessary by the company. Exempt employees may not be paid overtime associated with such duties.

Please note: Authorization to work in the United States is a precondition to employment in this position. Entergy will not sponsor candidates for work visas for this position.