Procurement Category Specialist responsible for strategic sourcing initiatives at NOV Corporate Procurement Team in Houston, Texas. Collaborating with internal stakeholders and suppliers to bring value to the organization.
About the role
- Category Manager overseeing strategic sourcing aligned with business growth in energy solutions. Driving supplier performance and cost management for Fluence’s innovations in energy storage.
Responsibilities
- Owns and maintains a multi‑year category strategy aligned with business growth, product roadmaps, and manufacturing plans
- Defines supply market structure, sourcing models, and regional strategy
- Anticipates cost, capacity, or technology inflection points and positions the category accordingly
- Leads sourcing for strategically critical programs, including NPIs and major ramps
- Owns RFx processes and supplier evaluations based on TCO, scalability, quality, risk, and capability
- Makes clear, data‑backed sourcing recommendations with documented trade‑offs
- Owns category cost targets and long‑range cost roadmaps
- Drives structural cost reduction through: should‑cost models supplier productivity initiatives design‑to‑cost and specification influence
- Acts as the internal authority on category cost drivers and benchmarks
- Leads high‑value and high‑complexity negotiations, including: long‑term agreements capacity or volume commitments indexation and risk‑sharing mechanisms
- Ensures contracts balance commercial advantage with long‑term supplier sustainability
- Owns executive‑level relationships with strategic suppliers
- Leads supplier governance (QBRs, scorecards, escalation)
- Drives supplier development priorities aligned with future business needs
- Serves as the category risk owner
- Proactively identifies and mitigates: geopolitical and supply concentration risks financial or operational supplier risks
- Develops and executes mitigation strategies (dual sourcing, localization, exit plans)
- Acts as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, Manufacturing, Finance, and Strategy teams
- Influences decisions beyond sourcing, including design choices and footprint strategy
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 8–12+ years of category or strategic sourcing experience or Master’s degree with 5–8+ years of progressive responsibility
- Strategic category management and global sourcing
- Contracting and complex commercial negotiations
- Cost modeling, TCO analysis, and financial acumen
- Supplier risk and performance management
- Executive-level written and verbal communication
- High degree of independence and accountability
- Comfort operating in international, cross-cultural environments
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development opportunities
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