Category Manager for Direct Materials scope

Our new Category Manager colleague will be:

• Responsible for area of specialty chemicals and additives.
• Responsible for development and implementation of category strategies for assigned categories.
• Responsible for achievement of defined objectives and KPIs including delivery of savings targets.
• Accountable for decision making on category level supplier awarding for contracting based on value limits.
• Responsible for creation and maintenance of annual procurement plan; mid and long-term planning for a category group in alignment with business partners. Contributes to consolidated procurement planning across categories within DS division.
• Responsible for monitoring market developments, innovations and technology trends and for applying them to strategy and implementation work.
• Contributes to sourcing process, participates in evaluation committees; supports negotiations based on value limits and priority.
• Responsible for Supplier Relationship Management related activities, including driving supplier segmentation.
• Responsible for setting up and performing KPI based supplier evaluation and development, managing relationships with strategic suppliers.
• Contributes to long lead items assessment, demand planning and execution, market analysis, supplier selection, claim management.