Regional Category Manager
Holcim
- Nashville, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Take ownership for delivering targeted bottom line results within the category.
- Develop, manage and implement proactive sourcing strategies for all materials.
- Work closely with other regions to understand and develop the supply base.
- Document supply/demand/capacity balances, trends and supplier interruptions.
- Monitor key cost drivers for materials managed and provide monthly updates on key materials managed.
- Identify, develop, and lead qualification of new suppliers to drive savings and reduce supply risk.
- Actively seek to reduce risk by minimizing single/sole source materials.
- Drive category performance to deliver lowest total cost of material.
- Conduct negotiations, issue RFQ's and manages all aspects of supplier relationships.
- Responsible for the selection, development and overall management of suppliers performance.
- Lead negotiations with suppliers to meet sourcing strategies and key objectives.
- Negotiate and implement contracts with suppliers, working closely with the legal team.
- Maintain open, direct and professional communications with all departments within the organization.
- Work closely with manufacturing sites to quickly address supply issues.
- Proactively work with suppliers to improve their performance.
- Arrange and conduct supplier audits in coordination with the QA manager(s) and Elevate standards.
- Work in a professional and ethical manner with suppliers and others at Elevate.
- Provide timely updates to management and internal customers on key raw material issues.
- Work with R&D and marketing within their Product areas.
- Responsible for formal presentation to the plants on a regular basis on cost reduction activities, process improvements and their implementation along with their cost benefits
- Maintain and enter information as needed in Procurement Management Systems
- Support new vendor and material requests in SAP for new products, product transfers, and acquisitions
- Minimum 5-years of experience in procurement, sales/marketing, quality or supply chain.
- Cross functional experience in purchasing chemical raw materials, sales, business management with a manufacturing or specialty company
- Possesses a very good knowledge of SAP and follows Procurement policies and procedures
- Excellent communication and project management skills
- Demonstrated leadership and negotiation skills
- Attention to detail
- Cooperating constructively
- Continuous improvement
- MS Office
- SAP
- Experience with Chemical Industry
- Language: English