Sr Procurement Manager – Category Manager - Indirect Site Services

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Job Description

The Sr Procurement Manager – Product Services, is category leader role and drives the execution of complex global category strategies necessary to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend across the North Americas Sites. The role will influence about $180M in spend on Product Services which mainly constitutes Outside lab testing of raw or finished goods, equipment maintenance and calibration subcategories. The role collaborates and leads a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies and handles supplier relationships. The role reports into North America Site Services Indirect Sourcing team.

Scale of Responsibilities

• Responsible for category strategy development and implementation
• Delivers key category performance indicators, including savings, supplier rationalization, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc.
• Develops multi-year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying suppliers that meet key business category management goals

Technical Responsibilities

• Uses structured Category Management process to provide input into category strategies
• Analyzes market intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Competent in category and supplier segmentation to effectively focus on key suppliers
• Engages and supports division/site procurement teams to qualify key suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers
• Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
• Leads supplier business reviews with selected suppliers to drive strategic priorities as well as handle key performance indicators
• Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy

Leadership Responsibilities

• Influences cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned with divisional business priorities
• Works with external supply partners and leads cross-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance
• Selectively may work to develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers (e.g. tool/asset management)
• Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics
• Acts as a coach/mentor to colleagues on category strategy process

Education, Experience and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field or equivalent combination of experience and education. Master’s Degree is preferred
• Minimum of 10 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
• Strong negotiation and contracts skills required
• Experience working in highly regulated industries
• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results
• Demonstrated consultative, collaborative and influencing style in performing sourcing activities