Category Manager (indirect materials sourcing)
Procurement Outsourcing Services
Czech Republic (Prague)
Ref: PL10-R264-S010
Our Client
is the market leader in the rapidly growing procurement outsourcing market. The company is exclusively focused on helping its customers, such as Kimberly-Clark, Goodyear, Chiquita, Hertz, Microsoft India and many other leading companies, reduce costs and improve competitiveness through procurement excellence.
As a leading procurement outsourcing specialist, our client is committed to delivering exceptional service through exceptional people. To do this, they bring together deep sourcing and procurement expertise, market insight, best practices and tools across the full spectrum of the indirect goods and services that companies procure in order to run their business. Whether in the area of marketing services, IT hardware, MRO, facilities or raw materials, they help their customers establish and manage supplier contracts and partnerships that deliver better pricing, value and service.The Position
Our client is seeking a category management leader with general indirect sourcing and supplier management experience to help their customers drive tangible results. In this capacity, you will work on a dedicated basis with one of our client’s European customers with responsibility for delivering category management services including, but not limited to, strategic sourcing, client stakeholder management, supplier performance management, and continuous cost and performance improvement.
Specifically, you will:
- Design and implement cost savings projects across multiple MRO/ Facilities sub-categories.
- Engage with customers’ senior management team members to drive and communicate progress
- Measure and manage “suppliers’” performance relative to contracted service levels.
- Identify and resolve strategic supplier performance issues to ensure customer satisfaction
- Perform total cost of ownership evaluations, perform supply-market research and conduct pricing audits and impact analysis for the pursuit of continuous cost improvements
- Work collaboratively with suppliers and customer stakeholders to identify and execute continuous cost and performance improvement strategies
The Opportunity
- Further advance program and senior customer relationship management skills
- Grow category knowledge to expert levels, creating growth opportunities for team and company
- Lead all associated delivery team members to achieve target results and customer satisfaction
The Ideal Candidate
- A bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Logistics or related discipline, MBA preferred
- 5+ years of strategic sourcing related to Indirect Categories within international environment
- Significant proven competency in contracting/negotiation processes and best practices
- Fluent Italian and English
- Ability to interface with customers and suppliers via strong written and verbal communications skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proficiency in spreadsheet software (e.g. Microsoft Excel) and presentation software (i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint)
- Exceptional multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple end-to-end project cycles
Travel
- This position will be located at our Client’s office in Prague
- Travel: up to 30%