Hawaiian Airlines Careers | Category Manager, Honolulu

Hawaiian Airlines

Job Description

Reporting to the Sr Director or Sr Manager, this position is responsible for assigned category strategies as determined by the Sr Director or Sr Manager. The Category Manager will establish category plans and strategies to drive continuous optimization through the practice and execution of Category Management in collaboration with key stakeholders and Finance.

Duties and Responsibilities

Your main responsibilities in this role include the following:

• Develop 3-5 year strategic category plans for business operations

• Work directly with business unit leaders to drive execution of category strategies, continuous improvement, and spend optimization

• Work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders and other category managers to drive synergies across multiple categories to optimize total spend, enable supply chain value and savings for the business.

• Work across multiple Hawaiian Airlines business units to enable optimum value and supply chain

• Perform spend analysis by category, supplier, and commodity area, and leverage findings to drive category strategies

• Develop a sufficient understanding of category business users and business models to effectively represent Hawaiian Airlines in the market

• Perform market research of relevant business models, suppliers, products, and services

• Develop annual sourcing and category initiatives that drive synergies and maximum supply chain value across multiple categories

• Develop, lead, and guide sourcing and negotiation strategies that enable maximum benefit to HA

• Lead category initiatives and contract negotiations for top tier supplier relationships and sourcing initiatives and as directed by the Senior Manager

• Influence and support continuous improvement of HA Sourcing & Procurement standard practices

• Approve requisitions at defined approval thresholds

• Other duties as assigned

Job Requirements

• Bachelors' Degree

• 1 year of Strategic Sourcing and contract negotiations experience

• Demonstrated ability to drive YoY savings is required

• Demonstrated fluency in RFx process and sourcing strategy development

• Performs complex bid analysis and supplier evaluation models

• Self-directing and delivers on multiple projects/goals, manages deadlines and changing priorities without supervision

• Capable of serving as Proxy for team’s Manager

• Exhibits high ethical standards

• Creative thinking skills and enjoys problem solving

• Comfortable with ambiguity and incomplete data

• Trustworthy of maintaining confidentiality

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior Aviation or Airlines experience

• Supply Chain or Contract Negotiations experience

• MBA

Job Details

Company: Hawaiian Airlines

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Location: Honolulu, HI, USA

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