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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