Category Manager – Plastics
GE HealthCare
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Mexico
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About the role
- Full ownership of the Plastics Category strategy for North America, including cost, quality, delivery, risk, and overall supplier performance.
- Lead high‑stakes negotiations to secure best‑in‑class Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and optimized commercial terms.
- Manage the end‑to‑end lifecycle of contracts and supply agreements, ensuring compliance, performance, and strategic alignment.
- Build, sustain, and elevate executive‑level supplier relationships, including structured business reviews and long‑term development plans.
- Partner with internal stakeholders across all GE HealthCare Strategic Business Units to identify supply chain gaps and drive cross‑business synergies.
- Collaborate with Supplier Development teams to identify, qualify, and onboard new suppliers across the region.
- Act as the escalation point for delivery, quality, and risk issues, driving rapid problem‑solving and implementing long‑term fixes.
- Lead early supplier engagement for new product introductions to optimize design‑to‑cost and ensure supply chain readiness.
- Improve payment terms with suppliers in scope.
- Build strong customer/supplier relationships through the execution of periodic business reviews to position GEHC as a customer of choice.
Requirements
- 5+ years of sourcing or category management experience, ideally with plastics or engineered components.
- Technical depth in plastics manufacturing, including resin grades, tooling concepts, and molding/forming processes; understands cost drivers and can challenge suppliers with data.
- Strong commercial acumen: able to analyze quotations beyond price (cost models, drivers, and negotiation levers) to deliver best‑in‑class TCO.
- Proven ability to independently own critical supplier relationships, negotiations, and commercial decisions with minimal oversight.
- Ability to run structured supplier business reviews, identify performance gaps, and drive corrective actions and continuous improvement.
- Strong negotiation, influencing, and problem‑solving skills.
- High proficiency in Excel and data‑driven decision‑making.
- Strong command of English, able to lead high‑level business discussions.
- Knowledgeable of legal terms and capable of holding formal negotiations; experience with U.S. suppliers/laws is a plus.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally (up to 20%).
Benefits
- Relocation Assistance Provided: No
- Equal Opportunity Employer
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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