Job Title
Category Manager Site Services
Location
Glen Mills, PA
Position Description
The role involves negotiating with and managing vendors for on-site services for a production facility including: Gardening, Piping, waste management, canteen services and other services impacting the manufacturing site.
Roles Responsibilities
- Be accountable for managing $68M site services spend in Americas, reporting to the Director, Indirect & Logistics Procurement Americas.
- Manage and evolve a supplier base that offers optimal quality, service, technology, and value (QSTV), and lead efforts to qualify alternate or second source suppliers.
- Functionally supervise a sourcing specialist supporting the developed category strategy.
- Closely collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine current and future sourcing needs + develop and execute corresponding category strategies.
- Identify and manage global projects in alignment with cross-functional internal stakeholders.
- Deliver significant cost savings and avoidances as well as continuous improvement plans.
- Negotiate and implement supply agreements that include ideal terms from a QSTV perspective.
- Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with key suppliers to advance supplier-supported company objectives, develop supplier capabilities, address gaps in supplier performance.
- In collaboration with the Business Units, Operations, Technology, and/or other functional stakeholders, develop and continuously evolve a cost savings/productivity plan for the category that includes a pipeline of new ideas, in-process projects, and projects accruing savings in support of exceeding annual productivity goals.
- Identify and execute TCO improvement opportunities.
- Effectively address all supplier performance failures via the root cause and corrective action process, successfully levying claims, and other tactics as appropriate.
- Create and maintain effective e-Sourcing events and catalogs to increase productivity.
- Monitor and resolve disconnects in the buy channel process in conjunction with the Procurement policy to improve overall compliance and actively managed spend.
Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Engineering.
- 5 or more years’ experience in Procurement/Category Management including On-Site Services.
- Experienced using Procurement e-sourcing-tools.
- Experience partnering with senior-level leaders and stakeholders in a global, matrix organization.
- Experience with the source-to-contract Procurement process.
- Comfortable negotiating both internally and externally.
- Prior experience leading diverse, multi-functional teams in collaborative efforts.
- ARIBA experience preferred.
- Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving capability.
- Superior communication and good presentation skills.
- Self-motivated, service-oriented “Can do – Will do” mindset and attitude.
- Strong organizational and planning skills.
- Ability to travel up to 20%, including international travel.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics or Engineering.
