• Manage a procurement calendar to ensure proactivity, visibility, and leverage in negotiations • Lead vendor communication and contract negotiations, partnering with leaders across the business to understand stakeholder requirements and secure competitive quotes to reach optimal contract terms • Deliver data-driven spend analysis and insights to senior leadership; proactively identify cost savings opportunities • Partner with Finance and IT Asset Management to integrate procurement with forecasting and cost management • Steward procurement strategy and processes across the organization

• 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