Sr Procurement Manager – Category Leader MRO & Industrial Gases

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Job Description

The Sr Procurement Manager – MRO & Industrial Gases, drives the execution of complex global category strategies necessary to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend across the North Americas Sites. The job will influence about $80M in spend. Collaborates and leads a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies and handles supplier relationships.

Scale of Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategy input and implementation for complex and strategic categories
• Delivers key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc
• Develops multi year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying suppliers that meet key business category management goals

Technical Responsibilities

• Uses structured Category Management process to provide input into category strategies
• Analyzes market intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Competent in category and supplier segmentation to effectively focus on key suppliers
• Engages and supports division/site procurement teams to qualify key suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers
• Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
• Leads supplier based business reviews with selected suppliers to drive strategic priorities as well as handle key performance indicators
• Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy

Leadership Responsibilities

• Influences cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned with divisional business priorities
• Works with external supply partners and leads cross-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance
• Selectively may work to develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers (e.g. tool/asset management)
• Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics
• Acts as a coach/mentor to colleagues on category strategy process

Education, Experience and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field or equivalent combination of experience and education. Master’s Degree is preferred
• Minimum of 10 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
• MRO experience is a must
• Experience working in highly regulated industries
• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results
• Demonstrated consultative, collaborative and influencing style in performing sourcing activities
• Experience in life sciences, medical devices, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred