Senior Category Manager

Job Description:
 
Job Title:           Senior Category Manager
Job Duration:  6+ months
Pay range:        $50-$67.31 USD per hour
Work Type:      Hybrid (Glen Mills, PA, 19342)
 
Overview/Responsibilities:
 
In this role you will negotiate with and manage vendors for on-site services for a production facility including: Gardening, Piping, waste management, canteen services and other services impacting the manufacturing site.
 

• Be accountable for managing $68M site services spend in Americas, reporting to the Director, Indirect & Logistics Procurement Americas.
• Manage and evolve a supplier base that offers optimal quality, service, technology, and value (QSTV), and lead efforts to qualify alternate or second source suppliers.
• Functionally supervise a sourcing specialist supporting the developed category strategy.
• Closely collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine current and future sourcing needs + develop and execute corresponding category strategies
• Identify and manage global projects in alignment with cross-functional internal stakeholders.
• Deliver significant cost savings and avoidances as well as continuous improvement plans.
• Negotiate and implement supply agreements that include ideal terms from a QSTV perspective.
• Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with key suppliers to advance supplier-supported company objectives, develop supplier capabilities, address gaps in supplier performance.
• In collaboration with the Business Units, Operations, Technology, and/or other functional stakeholders, develop and continuously evolve a cost savings/productivity plan for the category that includes a pipeline of new ideas, in-process projects, and projects accruing savings in support of exceeding annual productivity goals.
• Identify and execute TCO improvement opportunities.
• Effectively address all supplier performance failures via the root cause and corrective action process, successfully levying claims, and other tactics as appropriate.
• Create and maintain effective e-Sourcing events and catalogs to increase productivity.
• Monitor and resolve disconnects in the buy channel process in conjunction with the Procurement policy to improve overall compliance and actively managed spend.

 
Qualifications:
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Engineering. (Additional experience may be acceptable in lieu of degree).
• 5 or more years’ experience in Procurement/Category Management including On-Site Services
• Experienced using Procurement e-sourcing-tools.
• Experience partnering with senior-level leaders and stakeholders in a global, matrix organization.
• Experience with the source-to-contract Procurement process.
• Comfortable negotiating both internally and externally.

 
Preferred:
 

• Prior experience leading diverse, multi-functional teams in collaborative efforts.
• ARIBA experience preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving capability.
• Superior communication and good presentation skills.
• Self-motivated, service-oriented “Can do – Will do” mindset and attitude.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Ability to travel up to 20%, including international travel.