A leader in household cleaning and consumer goods is looking to add a Category Manager of Manufacturing to their newly developed Procurement team. This role will provide strategic thought leadership and be responsible for developing, implementing and owning the strategic sourcing strategies to reduce total cost of ownership by leveraging world-class negotiation skills, tools and processes. This position will develop strong cross functional working relationships while executing value driven projects and implementing best practices. This role will report to the Director of Sourcing and will manage critical contract manufacturing categories.
Key Responsibilities:
- Developing and executing fully integrated long-term strategic plans that meet organizational objectives
- Maintaining continuous in-depth knowledge of market conditions, industry trends, and developing technologies
- Owning all sourcing decisions including supplier evaluations, selections and competitive bid processes
- Deploying strategies using all relevant value levers to meet the total cost of ownership needs of our business and the dynamic supply needs of factories globally
- Managing performance and strategic relationships with suppliers to influence supply capabilities, efficiency, and effectiveness
- Driving effective supplier performance management in alignment with business stakeholders, to include supplier business reviews, scorecards and compliance requirements
- Assessing and maintaining category performance objectives and communicating periodic results to plan
- Negotiating supply agreements to mitigate risk, establish favorable commercial terms and drive the highest levels of total cost reduction
- Partnering with key stakeholders to proactively identify value-driven activities that deliver productivity savings, working capital and continuous quality improvement
Education and Skills Required:
- Bachelor degree
- 4+ years Sourcing & Category Management experience
- 4+ years experience in Direct Materials or Raw Materials categories
- CPM and/or APICS certification a plus
- Demonstrated knowledge and extensive experience developing and executing category strategies, supplier negotiations and supplier management
- Experience leading complex, global, project teams within business
- Strong track record of driving operational improvements to support the business strategy
Additional Qualifications:
- Strong communication and leadership skills dealing with a global cross-functional team
- Ability to work comfortably in a matrixed organizational environment
- People management & development
- Excellent teaming abilities
- Stellar negotiation skills
- Demonstrated strategic planning and execution
- Strong Sourcing, Supply Chain, Product Management, Engineering background
- Ability to influence others and lead teams
- Demonstrated background of building collaborative relationships
- Strong data analytics and presentation skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with positive persuasive attitude
