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What you will do
This Strategic Sourcing Manager role is a member of the Global Category Management team. This team is responsible for partnering with key stakeholders across all Product Business Units (PBU's) to develop global sourcing strategies for all key categories, establish a best-in-class global sourcing footprint, act as a Center of Excellence for their respective categories, actively support the business in new product development and help the PBU's to meet their business objectives. As a member of this team, you will work within a dynamic environment that provides a high-level of exposure and influence. In this role, you will manage the micro category portion of overall spend budget and associated savings. You will develop, communicate, and implement comprehensive category strategies.

How you will do it

• Responsible for developing detailed global category strategies. Categories will typically be high spend and will impact multiple product business units/regions and may also be highly technical in nature.


• Ensure alignment of category strategies to business requirements and objectives


• Lead MBBP (Materials Best Business Practice) team for assigned categories driving best product, process and footprint. Optimize supply base composition globally.


• Conduct supplier contract negotiation, supplier selection and contract lifecycle management


• Act as a center of excellence for the respective categories through complete understanding of industry, competition, future technologies and innovations etc.


• Responsible for overall continuity of supply and active risk mitigation. Work with plants to resolve quality, delivery, capacity and other issues as required.

What you will need

• Bachelor degree required


• 5-8 Years of Experience in a large manufacturing or multi-industry global organization


• Experience in a strategic sourcing role


• Very strong negotiation skills


• Capability to interface with senior leadership across regions both internally & externally


• In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practices


• Strong MS Office skills


• Strong costing and analytical skills


• Working knowledge of SAP or other equivalent ERP systems


• Travel up to 30%, global and domestic

Soft Skills / Communication

• Strong skills in emotional intelligence and communication with impact


• You handle ambiguity well, can make decisions without all the data, can shift gears comfortably and can effectively cope with change


• You believe that the best work is done in teams – you’re seen as a cooperative peer; candid yet fair.


• You can manage multiple priorities simultaneously because of your excellent planning, organization and time management skills.


• You are intellectually curious – driving continual learning for you and your team. You’re also interpersonally curious – understanding that internal and external collaboration fuels improvement and best practice

Preferred

• Master degree preferred


• Global sourcing experience

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