Category Manager (Procurement & Sourcing) Entrambasaguas

Tasks and Responsibilities:                                                              

• Develop and maintain thorough knowledge of relevant supply markets
• Establish close contact with business units to ensure actual and future knowledge of internal demand and service quality
• Manage and achieve benefits for the cluster of categories, ensuring transparency of costs to track benefits
• Ensure that country category requirements and issues are addressed in global, regional categories
• Implement global or regional sourcing strategies.
• Develop and deliver local category specific procurement strategies and initiatives
• Anticipate organisational and market evolution and adapt sourcing strategies according to changes
• Prepare and lead supplier negotiations
• Ensure effective implementation and roll-out of corporate and regional contracts in cooperation with corporate and regional category managers
• Conduct supplier management according to corporate standards and provide feedback concerning suppliers to head of procurement country

Function Objective:

• Achieve greatest value contribution, benefit realization and efficiency for the cluster of categories and ensure customer satisfaction. This embrace:
• Develop and implement best local procurement strategies
•  Leading respective procurement processes
• Negotiations and contract management
• Identify and recommend ´best in class´ suppliers and maintain sustainable relationships with them

Communicative Interfaces:

• Within procurement
• Outside procurement:
• Stakeholders/Customers
• Suppliers

Decision-Making/Ability to act:

• Participate in regional category teams
• Decision on cluster of categories strategy for local led initiatives
• Seek agreement of relevant decision bodies