Senior Category Manager

Role Overview

• Provide daily/weekly management and support to category/commodity team members while continually developing and expanding individual and team capabilities utilizing the established Managing for Daily/Continuous Improvement (MD/CI) process
• Align with regional and sector functional stakeholders to incorporate product and manufacturing strategies into category/commodity strategy while gaining leadership support.
• Lead category/commodity team members to develop and execute comprehensive Opportunity Assessment for commodity including spend segmentation, commodity maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis.
• Develop Sourcing Strategy for commodity detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits.
• Accountable for execution of sourcing projects including RFx, continuous improvement, consolidation, etc.
• Responsible for defining negotiations strategy including supplier profiles, commercial negotiations targets, defining switching costs, and building Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Developing and executing commodity blocking strategy
• Accountable for all commercial negotiations and supplier selections within commodities
• exceed spend under long-term agreement and supplier rationalization targets.
• Accountable for contract lifecycle management and compliance
• Partner with Regional and Sector Procurement teams to ensure delivery of productivity
• lead team countermeasures aligned to commodities and regions/sector
• Responsible for management of strategic suppliers through formal Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process to improve supplier performance metrics including quality, delivery, productivity, and innovation.
• Engage with NPD Procurement teams to support new product development (NPD) and new technology introduction (NTI), through preferred supplier and SRM programs
• Accountable for monitoring supplier risk across all responsible commodities while developing and maintaining detailed mitigation plans for critical components and at-risk suppliers
• Accountable for team reporting and managing of category/commodity inflation, both mitigation and recovery
• Accountable for cashflow & spend under contract to meet annual targets.
• Accountable for delivering commodity productivity through price, value analysis (VA) or continuous improvement projects
• responsible for supporting regional/sector countermeasures.
• Aggregate category/commodity playbooks across team members and present comprehensive team update during Quarterly Category/commodity Reviews (QCR)

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• 7+ years experience Supply Chain or Procurement
• 5+ years experience in Category/commodity Management
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Tech Stack

• Switching

Benefits

• Health Care benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; wellness incentives
• Retirement benefits
• Paid vacation days, up to 15 days
• Paid sick days, up to 5 days
• Paid personal leave, up to 5 days
• Paid holidays, up to 13 days
• Birth and adoption leave
• Parental leave
• Family and medical leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty
• Military leave
• Purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance