Senior Global Category Manager
About The Position
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature. As a Senior Global Category Manager, reporting to the Head of Procurement RM T&W Beverages, you will develop and implement strategies. These strategies will include related tactical plans to source the large spend and complex/business critical RM categories. Additionally, you will secure supply for those categories following the business plan. Operating with high autonomy, you will manage a clear sourcing strategy, priority setting and resource optimization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in similar fields.
- 7+ years of experience in Procurement
- Knowledge of F&F industry/FMCG Manufacturing/Chemical industry
- Specific technical and market knowledge in the respective category.
- Fluent in English.
- Spanish is a plus.
- 30% travel required
Responsibilities
- Manage the key category according to the current procurement strategy
- Drive the implementation of RM into the category
- Analyze market and implement risk management strategies for the portfolio
- Lead sourcing strategy development within cross functional team for main categories
- Drive sourcing strategy implementation by leading major RFQs and key negotiations
- Negotiate contracts globally
- Select, manage and audit suppliers
- Identify opportunities for portfolio optimization and involve creation and manufacturing in development of optimization plans
- Own key supplier relationship, and lead GBS escalated supplier conflict resolutions
- Communicate to suppliers any forthcoming changes specifications
- Ensure contract cover for materials and supplier compliance to contracts
- Ensure vendor performance at target levels
- Communicate to main internal stakeholders/Segment BP any market conditions changes which may affect the Business
- Support the responsible sourcing / Sourcing4 good projects implementation and provide information to Procurement Sustainability Manager – in full agreement on our global sustainability strategy
- Provide information for business planning process
- Develop cost reduction projects
- Provide price forecast and market trends for main commodities
- Develop category managers supported by proper development planning
Benefits
- annual bonus
- health insurance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
