Category Manager-IT & Corp Services

About the role

You'll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you'd expect from a multi-national industry leader. You'll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

• Buils and maintains profiles of supply market and key suppliers (including both current and potential suppliers)
• Establishes and communicates the vision and strategic direction for assigned categories
• Develops and executes appropriate market sector strategies aligning the market to Greene Tweed’s internal demand, and ensures approval/support from the organization
• Utilizes strategic sourcing within area of responsibility
• Employs financial analysis and economic modeling skills to evaluate supplier proposal pricing and develop flexible contractual pricing models which accommodate inflation, currency, scope changes, and other areas of risk mitigation and cost control
• Provides on-going contract cost management and risk management
• Champions and supports the deployment of the appropriate purchase to pay solutions
• Develops and implements supplier performance management strategies and measurement criteria for their market sector
• Advise in the development and direction of category sourcing plans and cross business teams directly connected with key stakeholders (budget and P&L owners)
• The needs are derived from close connection and understanding of their business strategies with impacts of spend
• Develops, execute and manage supplier contracts and agreements
• Executes the defined strategic sourcing process and drive utilization of tools and techniques aligned with the process framework and architecture
• Manages supplier relationships
• Work effectively across business units with different objectives in the creation and implementation of procurement strategies for complex spend categories

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Education/Certifications: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in supply chain, marketing, or engineering
• Skills and Experience: 7+ years demonstrated progressive Supply Chain experience in Category Management, Demonstrated skills in working effectively across business or functional lines and partnering with the businesses and departments to meet objectives, Demonstrated ability to influence others, Strong negotiations, interpersonal and communications skills, Professional, ethical personal conduct and demeanor, Experience conducting business and negotiating, Proven ability to analyze complex pricing proposals and formulate a strategic plan, Proven ability to work in a matrix, leading or participation on teams across reporting lines, for example segment teams, pricing teams, product launch teams, Strong analytical and quantitative skills, Experience as a leader/manager of a team

Job Environment

• Physical Requirements: Standing Occasionally (16-45%), Sitting Frequently (46-100%), Lifting Up to 10lbs without assistance, Carrying Up to 10lbs without assistance, Walking Frequently (46-100%), Hearing Ability to detect noises with or without corrective device(s), Vision Clarity of vision, with or without corrective lenses, Mental Requirements: Problem Solving Frequently (46-100%), Making Decisions Ability to make decisions that have a significant impact, Supervise Frequently (46-100%), Interpret Data Frequently (46-100%), Organize Frequently (46-100%), Read/Write Frequently (46-100%), Communication Frequently (46-100%), Work Environment High Temperatures Rarely (0-15%), Low Temperatures Rarely (0-15%), Noises Moderate (business office with computers, printers and light office noises), Fumes Exposure Rarely (0-15%)

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Health savings account
• 401k savings plan
• Life and disability insurance
• Tuition assistance