Category Procurement Manager

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Degree or equivalent experience
• •Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide sourcing strategy for a specific category
• •Identifying performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps
• •Collaborating with the Supply Network on risk mitigation and using predictive cost modeling both geographic and component-based
• •Identifying, developing, and managing a high-performing global supply network for one or more categories leveraging Procurement Classification Codes (PCC)
• •Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques
• •Ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors
• •Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching
• •Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience
• •Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position
• •Communicates well downward, upward, and outward
• •Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement
• •Knowledge of successful negotiation concepts and techniques
• •Ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner
• •Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests
• •Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external
• •Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective
• •Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win
• •Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions
• •Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate
• •Knowledge of category management within an organization's goods and services sector
• •Ability to use this knowledge to analyze and improve the end-to-end procurement process and maximize business profitability
• •Advises on streamlining the procurement strategy to realize the strategic benefits of category management
• •Designs and develops supplier agreements and procurement policies with standard terms and conditions
• •Identifies roadblocks in the implementation of category management and recommends innovative solutions
• •Prepares reports to evaluate the impact of category management on the procurement process and present ROI data to management
• •Supervises the execution of all stages of the category management process
• •Trains others on category management to ensure a streamlined procurement process
• •Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components
• •Ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice
• •Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward
• •Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements
• •Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers
• •Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers
• •Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments
• •Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements
• •Knowledge of strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes
• •Ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously
• •Participates in monitoring the execution for all stages of the strategic sourcing process
• •Trains others on strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments
• •Designs and develops standard supplier agreements and procurement policies with standardized terms and conditions
• •Works with complex strategic sourcing components including but not limited to negotiations, contracting, and continuous process improvement and implementation
• •Consults on strategic sourcing methods in relation to business relationships, inter-dependencies and integration
• •Develops and explains strategic sourcing best practices and rationale for the organization and industry
• •Domestic travel is less than 25%
• •Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen

Desired Qualifications

• •Prior Procurement experience in Castings, Fabrications, and/or Non-Metallics categories
• •Prior Procurement experience in Drivetrain components