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Hybrid Category Manager – Automation, Equipment
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About the role
- Category Manager improving procurement in automation and equipment for Westinghouse. Collaborating with global teams to ensure quality and reliability in supply chain processes.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain an overall category strategy to meet organizational goals.
- Guide the segmentation of assigned spend into appropriate category and subcategory groupings.
- Improve Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the category plan.
- Ensure smooth execution of the category strategy through collaboration with our preferred suppliers.
- Lead main business reviews (SRM) with strategic suppliers to lead the category strategy and completion of category goals.
- Review presentations for supplier relationship management meetings, category plans, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and gap analysis.
- Create a plan to deliver annual results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Leadership.
- Research and track industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage.
- Develop a productive working relationship with multiple departments: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of procurement experience, preferably within industries with complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, with a focus on procurement.
- Experience in negotiations including Request for Information Request for Proposal, Request for Quotation and contract development.
- BA/BS degree in any field of engineering, business field of study or similar.
- Benchmark, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills.
- Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration.
- Experience collaborating with teams across all levels of the organization, ability to cultivate dynamic teams to lead project to successful completion.
- Focus on daily continuous improvement in standard work, talent development, and risk mitigation to exceed organizational goals.
- Maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers.
- Advanced proficiency in Project ERP system or similar system experience in a global environment is beneficial (SAP & Ariba).
Benefits
- Wellness Allowance
- Flexible pay opportunities via our Benefit portal
- Work hour reduction (ATF) and occupational pension (ITP)
- ASB Insurance: compensation for the cost of health care, dental care, hearing aids, glasses and more
- Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
- Employee Referral Program: potential for employees to earn a monetary award for referring other qualified candidates to Westinghouse
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