Category Manager

**Title:** Category Manager
**Location:** United States-Illinois-Wood Dale
**Job Number:** 18575

A Category Manager in Procurement at AAR is responsible for owning one or multiple procurement categories from end to end. These end-to-end ownership responsibilities include (but are not limited to) strategic sourcing, conducting RFPs, direct negotiations with potential suppliers, supplier risk assessment, supplier selection, and contracting. A category manager is also responsible for proactive stakeholder management with Business Unit leaders and General Managers at different AAR sites to fulfill all of their category needs and for ensuring that the sites receive quality goods and services on time and at the right cost. Developing new and maintaining existing supplier relationships is also core to the category manager role.

The ideal candidate has prior hands-on sourcing and contracts experience and is comfortable working with spend management software such as C...