Title: Associate Category Manager - Chemicals
Salary: Highly Competitive
Company Overview: An industry-leading Consumer Product and Chemical Manufacturer is looking to add an Associate Category Manager - Chemicals position to its growing procurement department. This position reports into the Category Manager and works directly with the Procurement Director - Chemicals. They are looking for a highly motivated, entrepreneurial mindset individual to join the team.
The Associate Category Manager - Chemicals is responsible forโฆ
- Managed assigned chemical categories with responsibilities of analyzing spend data, sourcing, negotiation, administration, implementation of strategic initiatives across all business units
- Act as subject matter expert for category, maintain business intelligence, current market trends knowledge, commodity data, and regulatory guidelines and best in practice procurement methodology
- Plan and execute sourcing strategies across all business units
- Develop an understanding of supply and demand characteristics while negating supply risk
- Develop and negotiate contracts, long-term agreements and amendments with suppliers
- Manage key supplier performance goals and objectives, communicate periodic results to plan and manages top-level continuous improvement, and develop key awareness of industry performance benchmarks
- Develop, investigate and deliver year-over-year cost savings through total cost management tools such as productivity improvement, value analysis/value engineering, lean, six sigma, etc.
The Associate Category Manager - Chemicals should have the following qualifications:
- BA degree required in Business or Engineering, preferable Chemical
- 5+ years of sourcing for raw materials or a commodity
- Experience managing multiple sites
- Strong communication skills
- Strong leadership, initiative, and planning skills
- Critical thinker, with excellent analytic abilities
- Up to 30% travel