Global Indirect Category Manager

TJX Companies At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.

Global Category Manager What you’ll discover •    Inclusive culture and career growth opportunities •    Global Organization which collaborates across U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and India •    Challenging, collaborative, and team-based environment What you’ll do The TJX Global Sourcing and Procurement (GS&P) organization is a trusted partner to our myriad of business functions. As a Category Manager supporting TJX India corporate office requirements, you will serve as a trusted business partner to multiple functions across the TJX India organization, including Human Resources, Professional Services, Facilities Management, Technology Operations, and other corporate functions. You will collaborate with local & Global business partners to build relationships across regions, develop and execute sourcing strategies, lead competitive sourcing events, and negotiate commercial agreements across a diverse portfolio of spend categories. By applying strategic sourcing practices and leveraging understanding of our off-price business model, you will deliver value through end to end sourcing support, while flexing seamlessly across multiple business partners, regions and business priorities. You are a trusted partner who provides value to your business partners through your sourcing expertise and industry knowledge. You will serve in a pivotal role, leading strategic sourcing engagements on regional basis, aligning with regional and global business partners, to enable business initiatives. You’ll be recognized as someone who drives strategy, cost improvement and develops strong relationships across TJX. •    Leads the execution of sourcing projects using established strategic sourcing methodologies, tools, and templates to ensure fair, open, and competitive sourcing processes across multiple categories, including Facilities Services, Professional Services, HR, and Technology Operations. Partners with regional and global stakeholders to align business requirements, drive sourcing outcomes, and deliver value. Supports Senior Category Managers in executing high complexity regional and global sourcing initiatives. •    Leads and develops a team of Sr. Category Management Specialists in a matrix management organization.  •    Brings in depth knowledge of the GCC (Global Capability Center) landscape, Corporate Services sourcing, and regional supplier market dynamics, with a strong understanding of industry trends, commercial practices, and sourcing opportunities across multiple indirect spend categories. •    Manage the full strategic sourcing cycle, including understanding business demand, supplier identification and selection, risk mitigation strategy, price negotiation, contract "red-lining", planning and management of pipeline of strategic sourcing projects. •    Lead strategy development for assigned sourcing events.  Provide support to Senior Category Managers in the development of their regional and global sourcing strategies. Think and act globally to lead and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in the execution of Strategic Sourcing initiatives and the implementation of category strategies.  •    Develop effective and trusting relationships with Business Partners to ensure successful project delivery. This includes relationships with senior leadership. Serve as the liaison