Global Category Manager - Capital Projects Strategic Procurement

Job Requirements

The Global Category Manager – Capital Projects Strategic Procurement is responsible for leading and executing the strategic procurement of capital projects worldwide. This includes sourcing construction services, capital equipment, and all other Capex-related expenditures, ensuring optimal total cost of ownership, supplier risk management, and alignment with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Engaging site and corporate teams to utilize the global CPMP (Capital Procurement Management Process), to drive standardization of approach, correct approvals and outcomes in terms of budget adherence and timeline expectations.
• Negotiate total cost of ownership, including performance deliverables, price, spare parts packages, warranties, liabilities etc.
• Source and support qualification of new suppliers to add competition to historically single sourced areas.
• Identify opportunities to standardize common equipment and put strategies in place to manage these on a global scale.
• Report and update budget and progress of active projects.
• Ensure legal review of contracts and policy documentation is completed by suppliers and logged in the database.
• Update and maintain categorization of suppliers in our global systems and track savings in the global tracker.

Qualifications/Experience

• Strategic Capital Equipment category management experience with a minimum of 5 years in a global organization with multi-site, multi-process continuous manufacturing operations across the Americas and international geographies.
• Desirable to have experience of FIDIC/NEC/JCT model form contracts.
• A B.S./B.A. degree in Procurement, Business, Finance, Engineering or a related discipline is required and/or professional body qualification (ISM CPSM / MCPIS / ASCM CSCP).
• A Master’s degree in Supply Chain/Procurement or an MBA is highly desirable.