• Lead the organization’s CPSR compliance strategy, ensuring the purchasing system meets FAR Part 44, DFARS, and internal policy requirements. • Manage a team of compliance analysts or procurement professionals responsible for file reviews, process support, training, and documentation. • Oversee end to end CPSR preparation activities including gap assessments, internal audits, file population readiness, documentation updates, data calls, and audit phase coordination. • Develop, implement, and maintain procurement policies, procedures, standard templates, and process controls that support a compliant and efficient purchasing system. • Report purchasing system health and audit metrics to senior leadership; develop action plans to mitigate risks and drive continuous improvement. • Provide expert-level guidance on complex procurement compliance issues including price analysis, cost/price reasonableness, commercial item determinations, subcontract type selection, competition documentation, and supplier due diligence. • Monitor federal regulatory changes and interpret their impact to procurement processes; ensure timely updates across the organization. • Partner with internal procurement leadership to strengthen buyer capability, consistency of documentation, and alignment to CPSR expectations. • Lead and deliver compliance training programs to procurement staff at all levels. • Support internal and external audit interactions, including DCAA, DCMA, and customer reviews, ensuring accurate and timely responses. • Promote a culture of compliance, integrity, and audit-readiness within the procurement function.

• The Assistant Category Manager supports the execution and optimization of category strategies by leveraging data, managing key operational processes, and driving cross-functional initiatives. • This role is responsible for maintaining accurate and actionable data, supporting e-commerce readiness, and contributing to special projects that enhance category performance. • Working closely with the Senior Category Manager or Director, the Assistant Category Manager plays a critical role in translating strategic direction into execution, ensuring alignment across merchandising, marketing, and supply chain functions. • Manage and maintain category data integrity across systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and timely updates, including item descriptions, images, online search keywords, supplemental data, and starred reviews. • Monitor category performance and prepare regular reporting and insights for leadership review. • Analyze sales, margin, and market data—including Scholastic Dollars performance, publishing industry trends, and children’s market insights—to support category strategy development and identify opportunities for growth. • Execute category strategies as directed by the Senior Category Manager or Director, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. • Collaborate cross-functionally with merchandising, marketing, inventory planning, and operations teams to ensure seamless execution of category initiatives.

• Set strategy and priorities for pharmacy procurement and inventory across all locations • Solve large-scale, ambiguous operational and supply chain challenges • Align and manage priorities across pharmacy procurement operations, i.e. finance, compliance, RFP process, vendor management • Stand up and scale a centralized procurement and inventory function • Assess current processes and implement standardized, scalable workflows, governance, and accountability • Lead NetSuite inventory module implementation and transition from manual to system-based operations • Define system requirements to improve scalability and visibility • Develop sourcing strategies for APIs and consumables, rationalize suppliers, standardize contracts, and build redundancy for high-risk materials • Establish inventory control process (lot tracking, expiration, demand planning) • Ensure compliance with FDA and Board of Pharmacy requirements and maintain audit-ready documentation • Build operational playbooks, including performance metrics for all roles and areas • Lead and develop site-level teams, coach managers and ICs, and drive adoption of processes and systems • Supervise, lead and coach small team of procurement support staff • Travel 20% for onsite meetings

• Provide data-driven insights and reporting to support sourcing decisions and financial planning • Analyze spend, volume, and supplier data across categories to improve cost visibility and support sourcing decisions • Translate demand and MRP data into clear insights, including impacts to spend, supplier capacity, and sourcing opportunities • Develop cost models and pricing analyses, including should-cost and total cost of ownership frameworks • Design and maintain dashboards and reporting for procurement KPIs • Partner closely with Finance to ensure accurate tracking, validation, and actualization of cost savings and cost changes • Support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis related to procurement initiatives • Develop clear, compelling presentations and slide decks, including executive updates, supplier QBRs, and sourcing insights • Design and maintain data structures and reporting frameworks, including spend classification, supplier hierarchies, and KPI definitions • Develop solutions for data collection, cleansing, and analysis, including building datasets and tools where needed • Improve tools and systems, including defining requirements, improving usability, and driving adoption • Contribute to the procurement maturity roadmap and evaluate emerging technologies, including advanced analytics and AI-driven tools • Partner with Category Managers to deliver market research, inflation trends, key cost drivers (e.g., fish oil, resins, freight), and supplier insights that inform category and sourcing strategies • Track relevant indices and provide ongoing visibility into cost movements and market dynamics • Enable RFI/RFP processes, including improving and automating workflows where possible • Analyze and track supplier performance, developing KPIs and scorecards (cost, service, quality, reliability) • Contribute to development of supplier management and segmentation strategies (e.g., Kraljic matrix) based on performance, risk, and strategic importance • Track Procurement program progress and ensure visibility into realized vs. projected savings