Category Leader - Indirect Sourcing

As the Category Leader, Indirect Sourcing you will drive competitive business advantage by implementing innovative strategies for cost reduction, quality, and delivery across the corporation's non-production expenditures across our global operations.

Your Responsibilities

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• • Execute Sourcing Strategies: Execute sourcing strategies focused on optimizing the existing supply base to achieve the best leverage and outcomes associated with cost, quality, and delivery. This includes supplier performance, relationship, contract, and risk management. Manage complex contracts, lead negotiations to deliver favorable terms, volume discounts and long-term contracts with suppliers, and prepares and processes requisitions and purchase orders for the procurement of goods, services, and supplies for customer-related business processes or for internal use.Effectively communicate, manage and collaborate in a decentralized global procurement environment on a portfolio of global savings for the spend under management.

• Continuous Improvement Assess and improve existing tools to support spend visibility, dashboards, reports, and other business intelligence methods that drive action by commodity leaders, regional leaders, and Op Co/segment/platform procurement leaders.Measure and track internal performance within each spend category. Drive annual productivity improvements in each spend category to deliver value through collaborative supplier relationship management.

• Supplier Management: Manage supplier relationships to ensure high performance, including negotiating contracts, monitoring supplier performance, and addressing any issues that arise.

• Cost Management: Achieve cost savings through effective negotiation and strategic sourcing initiatives. Monitor and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to cost savings, supplier performance, and procurement efficiency.

• Collaboration: Work closely withmulti-functional internal stakeholders to understand their needs and ensure that sourcing strategies align with business objectives. Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to drive sourcing initiatives.

• Compliance: Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and ethical standards in all sourcing activities.

• • Project Management: Lead and manage stakeholder teams on specific strategic sourcing initiatives or projects. Drive best practices: Lead specific categories and consult on Merger and Acquisition due diligence as requested while leading or supporting acquisition integration projects as a part of overall integration team.

Your Experience

• • Demonstrated effectiveness in communicating concepts and recommendations and gaining acceptance and commitment.

  • International experience in managing indirect reports in a matrix environment.

  • Ability to work independently and comfortably in ambiguous situations, know how to resolve conflicts and have a proven track record of achieving results.

  • Provide thought leadership and proven track record of delivering continuous improvement.

Your Qualifications

• • Bachelor's degree in relevant area such as supply chain, business management, operations, or finance with a minimum of 3 combined years of experience in business, Indirect Sourcing, professional services, Travel Commodity Management, Fleet Management.

• • Full proficiency in use of computer tools including MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other database type tools.

Your Attributes

• • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with Lean and/or Six Sigma training or experience

  • Excellent verbal and written presentation skills Strong Project Management skill