Lead Category Manager

About the role

At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

Responsibilities

• Manages assigned categories to optimize the supply base and deliver maximum value to the Business.
• Identifies and executes value delivery (cost savings, cost avoidance, revenue enhancement) and risk reduction opportunities within assigned categories.
• Analyzes and interprets data for use in decision-making and actions in support of category strategy, including TCO and should cost modeling.
• Develops, implements, and manages category strategies with focus on the value proposition, commercial agreement execution and administration.
• Develops and manages strategic partnerships with internal and external Stakeholders; to include collaboration with Stakeholders to align on category strategies, understand the demand/spend profile of risks and Business requirements.
• Develops and manages KPIs for measuring performance for key Suppliers.
• Facilitate issue resolution related to Supplier performance.
• Leads utilization and performance assessments to confirm strategies are effective and strategic Suppliers are meeting and exceeding expectations.
• Identifies and leads strategic sourcing projects within assigned categories, analyze business objectives, develop project plan and charter, lead and/or facilitate cross functional teams to ensure milestones are met, track project progress and monitor performance against plan, facilitate meetings, prepare reports and presentations to communicate status.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand the demand/spend profile of assigned category and sub-categories.
• Responsible for the strategy development to mitigate risks and to ensure best in class support for our ongoing business requirements.
• Mentors Category Analyst to ensure all aspects of the category strategy are being executed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Six (6) or more years of Supply Chain or business relevant experience.