About the role

Job Purpose

The Global Category Manager is responsible to manage their supplier commodity panel with a strong financial QCD performance orientation

Key Responsibilities

· Develop the regional and global strategies of the panel under their responsibility. Enforce group and local conditions as required

· Develop and present the short / medium / long term action plan of their commodity that meets the objectives of the Industry Procurement performance strategy

· Provide market data on their category for the Sector

· Global reference for the Sector on their categories

· Accountable to present Category Roadmap up to date on 6M Rolling base

· Coordinate volume /planned productivity discounts for their global commodity panel

· Participate actively in the budget preparation of their commodity savings performance

· Participate actively in the LTP and budget preparation with regional Procurement Heads and Industry CPO

· Review supplier performance monitoring (scorecard, escalations, panel inputs/outputs)

· Develop and maintain the relationship with key panel suppliers, develop John Cockerill C-Levels associated at supplier’s

· Lead and propose cost optimization actions including VAVE, Make or Buy and other levers as needed. Manage the associated negotiations and lead the Sourcing coordination

· Develop savings actions road map for the panel under their responsibility and share / support the Lead Buyers community associated on savings actions

· Animate the Lead Buyers community associated on their categories and project

· Manage annual and globalization negotiations

· Finalize the project buyer’s negotiation (level 2) when needed

· Provide project buyers with a structured panel for their Category

· Support management of series crisis actions (supply of product, quality issues, etc.)

· Ensure the conformity / validity of purchasing data recorded in ERP and reported in iValua

· Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

· Master in Business and or Engineering with emphasis or experience in Procurement or equivalent; and 10 years procurement with manufacturing, engineering related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience

· 10+ years of strong technical experience with Metals and Industry business

· Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Must be able to assess reasonableness of the analysis performed

Background, Skills and Competencies

· Must have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with Engineering; Procurement, Top Management and other plant and office personnel

· Strong negotiation skills, ability to bear under pressure

· Practical expertise in office systems such as Excel and ERP tools such as SAP and Ivalua (e.g. purchasing - projects)

· Customer orientation, concern to offer a permanent quality service to internal clients,

· At ease in a matrix organization and a support department

· Analytical mindset, ability to formalize, structure and great rigor in work

· Agility in a changing professional environment

· Diplomacy, good communication skills, both oral and written, and ease in dealing with all types of interlocutors

· Very good team spirit and willingness to contribute to the team

· Reliability, integrity, honesty, discretion

· Comfortable with an international environment and multicultural aspects

· Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in other languages is a plus