The Environmental Procurement Category Specialist is responsible for ensuring Citi’s purchasing practices are aligned with Citi’s Net-Zero goals and compliance to regulations. This role is essential to integrating environmental sustainability into Citi’s purchasing activities; helping reduce Citi’s environmental footprint while driving efficiencies and costs savings.

Responsibilities:

• Ensures Citi’s purchasing practices align with Sustainability goals and regulations, with primary focus on Environment and Net-Zero goals.
• Integrating Environmental Social and Economic considerations into procurement processes for high impact spend categories.
• Partners with Category leads to develop and implement sustainability into category management strategies, focus on reducing environmental impacts, promoting social responsibility.
• Establishes Category based Environmental KPI framework.

• Develops sustainable sourcing evaluation matrix and scorecards and evaluates supplier responses to ensure responses aligned to Citi expectations and goals.
• Assesses targeted suppliers’ sustainability performance and supports supplier contract negotiations that incorporate sustainability performance standards (where required).
• Conducts market research to identify suppliers and aligns with Citi’s Net-Zero and other Sustainability goals and analyzes market trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders (Sourcing/Category Leads/Key business Stakeholders) and communicates awareness on key sustainable sourcing initiatives.
• Supports sustainability reporting, contributing to reports on environmental performance and progress towards sustainability goals.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Environmental regulations and best practices
• Sustainable Procurement Certification highly preferred (eg. AC-SGPES, CSP, CSPM)
• Knowledge in Supply chain management and logistics
• Procurement processes and Category Management experience
• Ability to analysis data and identify cost savings opportunities leveraging All lifecycle cost and impacts including Total Value Ownership (TVO)

Education:

• Bachelor’s/University degree or equivalent experience, potentially Masters degree