Procurement Category Manager

Filinvest Group; Muntinlupa; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Filinvest Group is seeking a Category Manager to own end-to-end lifecycle for procurement categories. You will drive category strategy through spend analysis, market research, and supplier selection, aligning with cross-functional stakeholders to meet business needs and cost objectives.

Responsibilities include leading sourcing, vendor negotiations, and risk management to ensure optimal terms and supplier performance across assigned categories.

Qualifications

• Continuously lead end-to-end lifecycle for procurement categories.
• Perform spend analysis and vendor market research to define strategy.
• Coordinate with operations, finance, quality, legal, and end-users.
• Identify risks and develop mitigation plans.

Responsibilities

• Category Management: Regular reviews to develop ideal category strategy.
• Supply Market Analysis: In-depth market research to identify suppliers.
• Sourcing & Shortlisting: Lead sourcing to support business needs.
• Negotiating & Contracting: Lead vendor negotiations for best terms.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong partnerships with units and vendors.
• Risk Management: Identify risks and create contingency plans.

Skills

Category Management

Supply Market Analysis

Sourcing & Shortlisting

Negotiating & Contracting

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Job description

Provides E2E category expertise and leadership for the assigned category/ies from understanding of business requirements to match with supply market (industry and vendors) in order to drive the entire category strategy. This role owns the end‑to‑end lifecycle for one or more procurement categories, from spend analysis and supplier market research through contract negotiation, supplier management, and continuous improvement. The Category Manager collaborates closely with cross‑functional stakeholders—such as Operations, Finance, Quality, Legal, and end‑user departments to ensure that category strategies support business requirements, compliance standards, and total cost of ownership (TCO) objectives.

• Category Management: Performs regular review of categories through spend analysis, industry analysis, vendor business reviews, etc. in order to come up with an ideal category strategy
• Supply Market Analysis: Perform in-depth market research to identify, screen, and qualify potential suppliers, which will support the requirements of the categories handled
• Sourcing & Shortlisting: Leads the sourcing process in order to support needs of the business units as aligned with the category strategy
• Negotiating & Contracting: Leads the negotiations with vendors to ensure that the business gets the optimum service, cost, terms
• Stakeholder Management: Drives strong partnerships with business units and vendors for the assigned categories
• Risk Management: Identifies potential risks for assigned categories and creates mitigation/contingency plans