AddressResponsibilities:
Category Manager, Technical Manpower & Marketing:
- Develop strategic relationships with industry experts to build out category-specific SWOT analysis.
- Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of category objective strategy for assigned categories.
- Support the development of category strategies and implement packaging initiatives that will improve product quality, cost, efficiencies, and processes
- Execute sourcing activities for end-to-end categories spend including development of bid cadence, bid execution, contracting, supplier management and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Develop countermeasures and risk mitigation plans based on high-probability market scenarios
- Analyze cost to serve, identify gaps and engage with internal stakeholders (operations, engineering, quality) to capture business requirements and ensure qualification and efficient onboarding/transition of suppliers
- Manage strategic relationships with suppliers to achieve efficient, reliable, and cost-effective solutions
- Build and maintains proactive communication with leadership to support mutually beneficial business relationships improving near and long-term network capabilities
- Track performance of operations and execution of suppliers; timely resolves performance problems that could impact flow of shipments; proactively develops contingency plans and manages crisis situations
- Subject matter expert in rates, materials, and forecasting
- Manage the analysis of category cost and performance to benchmark service standards and applicable trends to ensure contracted service level agreements and budgeted operating costs are being met; decisively develops plans for any gaps in performance
- Perform quarterly business reviews for all strategic suppliers within assigned categories
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or related field
- 5+ Years of experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, Contract Management or Sourcing.
- Strong mathematical aptitude with analytical skills. Ability to perform data analysis using MS Excel and/or SQL
- Ability to travel up to 20%
Desired Qualifications:
- Master’s Degree in Business or Supply Chain
- 5+ years category-related sourcing experience, consulting, buyer, business, and/or analyst experience
- Demonstrate success with implementing transformations, change management, problem solving and process thinking
- Experience leading complex problem-solving
- Demonstrate experience managing a cross functional team
- Oracle experience in a global environment
