Job Scope:

The Sourcing Category Manager will be responsible for managing global spend associated with assigned commodity areas including the development and execution of procurement strategies that align with the enterprises overall business objectives.  This includes the support of financial expectations through the delivery of total cost solutions across the supply chain while driving supplier collaboration / relationship efforts and new product, category and innovation activities.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust sourcing strategies to support category growth and optimized total costs across the supply chain.
• Accountable for execution of sourcing projects including supplier identification, conducting and analyzing RFx, supplier selection and program execution.
• Ensure all sourcing project milestone dates are met.
• Prepare for, lead and support key vendor negotiations.
• Proactively analyze spend data to identify new sourcing opportunities or enhance current supply chain efficiencies.
• Actively monitor and mitigate supplier risk including financial, capacity, and compliance.
• Continually research to understand the company’s needs and requirements and industry trends of the category, in order to contribute to supply chain improvements.
• Partnership with key stakeholders and the global sourcing teams to reduce the total cost of ownership.
• Collaboration and problem solving with other internal process partners, including Quality, Engineering, Planning, Sales and Marketing to ensure achievement business requirements and objectives.
• Develop, lead, participate, and/or implement process changes to support business initiatives.
• Responsible for leading, building and managing strategic supplier relationships
• Coordinate and manage requisitions and purchase orders as needed.
• Managing inventory delivery and invoicing issues as needed.