Job Purpose
The Global Category Manager is responsible to manage their supplier commodity panel with a strong financial QCD performance orientation
Key Responsibilities
- Develop the regional and global strategies of the panel under their responsibility. Enforce group and local conditions as required
- Develop and present the short / medium / long term action plan of their commodity that meets the objectives of the Industry Procurement performance strategy
- Provide market data on their category for the Sector
- Global reference for the Sector on their categories
- Accountable to present Category Roadmap up to date on 6M Rolling base
- Coordinate volume /planned productivity discounts for their global commodity panel
- Participate actively in the budget preparation of their commodity savings performance
- Participate actively in the LTP and budget preparation with regional Procurement Heads and Industry CPO
- Review supplier performance monitoring (scorecard, escalations, panel inputs/outputs)
- Develop and maintain the relationship with key panel suppliers, develop John Cockerill C-Levels associated at supplier s
- Lead and propose cost optimization actions including VAVE, Make or Buy and other levers as needed. Manage the associated negotiations and lead the Sourcing coordination
- Develop savings actions road map for the panel under their responsibility and share / support the Lead Buyers community associated on savings actions
- Animate the Lead Buyers community associated on their categories and project
- Manage annual and globalization negotiations
- Finalize the project buyer s negotiation (level 2) when needed
- Provide project buyers with a structured panel for their Category
- Support management of series crisis actions (supply of product, quality issues, etc.)
- Ensure the conformity / validity of purchasing data recorded in ERP and reported in iValua
- Other duties as assigned
Education & Experience
- Master in Business and or Engineering with emphasis or experience in Procurement or equivalent; and 10 years procurement with manufacturing, engineering related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3 to 5 years of strong technical experience with Metals and Industry business
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Must be able to assess reasonableness of the analysis performed
Background, Skills and Competencies
- Must have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with Engineering; Procurement, Top Management and other plant and office personnel
- Strong negotiation skills, ability to bear under pressure
- Practical expertise in office systems such as Excel and ERP tools such as SAP and Ivalua (e.g. purchasing - projects)
- Customer orientation, concern to offer a permanent quality service to internal clients,
- At ease in a matrix organization and a support department
- Analytical mindset, ability to formalize, structure and great rigor in work
- Agility in a changing professional environment
- Diplomacy, good communication skills, both oral and written, and ease in dealing with all types of interlocutors
- Very good team spirit and willingness to contribute to the team
- Reliability, integrity, honesty, discretion
- Comfortable with an international environment and multicultural aspects
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in other languages is a plus
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