Global Category Manager II

Franklin Electric•Fort Wayne, IN

About The Position

The Global Category Manager is responsible for driving and implementing category strategies across the organization by leading the sourcing team to accomplish organizational objectives. The role develops and maintains a qualified supply base while understanding technology trends and market influences. It has overall business ownership of assigned categories, including managing, facilitating, and monitoring communications with suppliers and employees.

Requirements

5 to 10 years of relevant category management experience.
Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or equivalent.
Functional understanding of JDE or ERP, supply chain, logistics, warehousing, distribution, importing, exporting, and shipping.
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access) and PowerBI.
Strong contract management experience, including contract negotiations.
Exceptional analytical data skills and risk management abilities, including prediction, identification, and mitigation.
Ability to analyze information and evaluate results to choose solutions and solve problems.
Ability to break down information or data to identify underlying principles, reasons, facts, or information.
Ability to read and understand policy manuals, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to handle routine problems involving several known variables.

Nice To Haves

Deep understanding of Metal, Bearing, and Fabrication categories.
Familiarity with 7steps or other strategic sourcing methodologies.

Responsibilities

Serve as a resident expert on category-related factors, including product knowledge, applications and usage, processing knowledge, cost structure, global markets, supplier capabilities and market share, and supplier benchmarking.
Use contract negotiation, process changes, and sustainable cost controls to validate proposed project impacts with Finance and drive stakeholder approval.
Draft, negotiate, and execute supplier contracts.
Use strategic sourcing tools to conduct proactive spend analysis; maintain supplier and category cost models and metrics; and communicate supplier performance, technology trends, and market conditions.
Manage, develop, and maintain business relationships with suppliers.
Develop and implement strategies and goals for assigned categories that support department objectives for quality, cost, and supplier development.
Present proposals, recommendations, and category metric results to senior leadership.
Develop strategic supplier partnerships.