Category Manager
Envista
- Tuusula, Uusimaa
- Vakituinen
- Täyspäiväinen
- Develops and drives supply chain strategy and objectives, including procurement, cost reduction, new material introduction and supplier selection.
- Owns supplier relationship management and visits major vendors to discuss and negotiate to drive strategic goals and maintain good relationships as required.
- Leads and participates in initiatives that review spending and manufacturing activity to identify ways to reduce costs while maintaining or improving quality, delivery, and inventory.
- Manages his/hers supply base to ensure leveraging of purchasing strength to support operations excellence and materials cost reduction goals.
- Develops and leads negotiations for necessary contracts to support robust material flow including such things as: year over year savings, quality, inventory replenishment systems, Kanban, etc. with partnership with supply chain team.
- Manages suppliers and ensure contractual coverage to maximize working capital, inventory, quality, and delivery.
- Develops new supply chain sources to drive competitive advantage through differentiation and understanding of market drivers.
- Conducts market research, competitive analysis, overall market trends to quantify needed changes, improvements in material and commodity management strategy.
- Provides R&D support for sustaining engineering and represents Procurement in new product introduction programs.
- Develops, manages, and drives Procurement processes, especially the ones related to Quality Management System.
- Partners with Quality to reduce internal and external quality and out of box failures. Support Quality through management of supplier quality rating programs, resolution of non-conformities, and supplier audits.
- Conducts supplier risk management by reviewing sourcing restrictions, revenue impacts, supplier evaluation ratings, and supplier stability indicator scores. Uses evaluation to develop plans for high-risk parties.
- Actively engaged to understand materials contribution to production issues, quality constraints, and sales issues and actively participate in improvements and solutions.
- Understands of compliance with all procurement domestic and international laws including import/export compliance.
- Performs other duties and task as assigned by supervisor/manager.
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5+ years of Procurement or Supply Chain experience.
- 3+ years of experience with and practical understanding of the use of continuous improvement tools
- Proficient in the use of a computer, MS Office suite knowledge/experience required.
- Ability/willingness to travel domestically and globally.
- Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or related field.
- Ability to think critically and in tactical and strategic dimensions simultaneously.
- Possess clear and organized communications skills (written and verbal).
- Experience working in a global organization.
- Experience in an FDA regulated environment.
- Experience in leading continuous improvement efforts, in both quality systems and products.
- Proven ability to inspire followership and drive performance excellence.
- Perseverance and consistency in pursuit of successful outcomes. Engineering and/or technical knowledge and/or background.
- The ability to understand and read engineering drawings and specifications related to fit, form and functionally, preferred but not mandatory.
- Experience working with medical devices and in a Quality Management system (QMS) and a Change Control Board (CCB).