Global Category Manager

Job Purpose

The Global Category Manager is responsible to manage their supplier commodity panel with a strong financial QCD performance orientation

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the regional and global strategies of the panel under their responsibility. Enforce group and local conditions as required
• Develop and present the short / medium / long term action plan of their commodity that meets the objectives of the Industry Procurement performance strategy
• Provide market data on their category for the Sector
• Global reference for the Sector on their categories
• Accountable to present Category Roadmap up to date on 6M Rolling base
• Coordinate volume /planned productivity discounts for their global commodity panel
• Participate actively in the budget preparation of their commodity savings performance
• Participate actively in the LTP and budget preparation with regional Procurement Heads and Industry CPO
• Review supplier performance monitoring (scorecard, escalations, panel inputs/outputs)
• Develop and maintain the relationship with key panel suppliers, develop John Cockerill C-Levels associated at suppliers
• Lead and propose cost optimization actions including VAVE, Make or Buy and other levers as needed.  Manage the associated negotiations and lead the Sourcing coordination
• Develop savings actions road map for the panel under their responsibility and share / support the Lead Buyers community associated on savings actions
• Animate the Lead Buyers community associated on their categories and project
• Manage annual and globalization negotiations
• Finalize the project buyer’s negotiation (level 2) when needed
• Provide project buyers with a structured panel for their Category
• Support management of series crisis actions (supply of product, quality issues, etc.)
• Ensure the conformity / validity of purchasing data recorded in ERP and reported in iValua
• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Master in Business and or Engineering with emphasis or experience in Procurement or equivalent; and 10 years procurement with manufacturing, engineering related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 3 to 5 years of strong technical experience with Metals and Industry business
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Must be able to assess reasonableness of the analysis performed

Background, Skills and Competencies

• Must have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with Engineering; Procurement, Top Management and other plant and office personnel
• Strong negotiation skills, ability to bear under pressure
• Practical expertise in office systems such as Excel and ERP tools such as SAP and Ivalua (e.g. purchasing - projects)
• Customer orientation, concern to offer a permanent quality service to internal clients,
• At ease in a matrix organization and a support department
• Analytical mindset, ability to formalize, structure and great rigor in work
• Agility in a changing professional environment
• Diplomacy, good communication skills, both oral and written, and ease in dealing with all types of interlocutors
• Very good team spirit and willingness to contribute to the team
• Reliability, integrity, honesty, discretion
• Comfortable with an international environment and multicultural aspects
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in other languages is a plus