Senior Manager, Category Management, Specialty Services
Nutrien Ag Solutions LAS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Calgary • Canada
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About the role
- Model our core value of safety by leading and enabling a culture in which you and your team are actively contributing to a safe work environment.
- Partner with Director, Category Management and stakeholders to develop / manage category strategies for assigned category / sub-categories by driving the category playbook, identifying value initiatives, managing key global suppliers and agreements, identifying key supplier / site risks and developing mitigation plans.
- Responsible for partnering with sites to operationalize results and manage/direct a comprehensive change management strategy across the sites.
- Drive frequent site engagement with site Procurement managers to collect business requirements for sub-categories, site specific risks and opportunities to inform broader category strategies.
- Build a team consisting of Category Managers, Specialists and Analysts to develop sub-category strategies in line with an overarching category strategy.
- Coach Category Analysts to develop category / spend analytics and market insights tailored to deliver both global category and site level insights.
- Oversee the development and execution of category KPIs (goals & objectives) aligned to Procurement, Business Units and Site’s GPS procurement goals & objectives that will measure the effectiveness of strategic spend management.
- Lead Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR’s) with suppliers, defining KPIs and best practices for supplier performance (i.e., on-time delivery), jointly identifying cost savings levers across sites, inventory optimization (lead times, etc.) and other value-added services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, ideally in Business, Engineering, or similar discipline.
- 10+ years relevant experience in category management, strategic sourcing, supply chain management, project management, engineering, or equivalent.
- 4+ years of leadership experience ideally within a supply chain function.
- Hands-on experience with specialty services category sourcing activities.
- Broad experience in supply chain, source-to-contract and source-to-pay processes and tools, and a more targeted experience in spend analytics, category strategy development and implementation, competitive sourcing, supplier negotiations & contract execution, supplier relationship & contract management and supplier risk management.
- Track record of effectively driving and managing organizational change and influencing diverse audiences to achieve challenging objectives.
- Analytical abilities and experience using quantitative insights to make decisions and influence stakeholders.
- Experience in leading teams across distributed geographic networks.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Local suppliers, community partnerships, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion engagement strategies are prioritized and actioned in a collaborative fashion to create sustainable, long-term value for Nutrien and the communities in which we operate.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
category managementstrategic sourcingsupply chain managementproject managementspend analyticscategory strategy developmentcompetitive sourcingsupplier negotiationscontract executionsupplier risk management
Soft Skills
leadershipanalytical abilitieschange managementinfluencing stakeholdersteam buildingcoachingcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstrategic thinking