Rich Products Australia

Strategic Category Manager – Contract Manufacturing

Rich Products Australia

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Location: Buffalo • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $116,655 - $174,983 per year

About the role

  • Strategic procurement professional responsible for enterprise-wide contract manufacturing space who partners with internal/external business stakeholders to drive procurement value.
  • Development and execution of strategies that focus on optimizing transparent cost structures, joint value creation, improving vendor performance, mitigating risk and extracting innovation from supply base.
  • Work closely with sales and marketing groups as well as managing categories with international supply chain implications, collaborating with regional teams.
  • In combination with business stakeholders, development and execution of category sourcing strategy for contract manufacturing supplier landscape leveraging industry knowledge, while achieving business requirements.
  • Build a short term and long-term category vision that is aligned with business stakeholders, and supported by strategic category management and sourcing objectives.
  • Direct category specific analyses and reporting, supply market research and spend analytics.
  • Develop sourcing strategies, RFI/RFP materials, negotiations, savings model, supplier selection recommendation and contracting.
  • Lead the implementation of strategic supplier development plans including maximizing procurement leverage and supplier performance/joint-process improvements.
  • Negotiate and implement supplier agreements/contracts by working with cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to reach agreement on contract terms and conditions.
  • Deliver price transparency within costing models to establish leverage of category management levers, establishing competitive total cost of ownership (TCO).
  • Drive metrics, data reporting and dashboards to support the achievement of value optimization goals.
  • Apply Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) strategy and segmentation (transactional, strategic, niche, etc.) to category.
  • Benchmark payment terms against industry and enhance current payment terms especially with core suppliers.
  • Ensure that maximum amount of spend is under active procurement management.
  • Create category dashboarding to measure and manage category KPI’s & metrics.
  • Ability to track value creation delivered through category strategy execution.
  • Provide strategic category expertise and support to procurement teams located in regions outside the U.S. for assigned category.
  • Leverage spend in regions outside the US to drive additional value with strategic suppliers, while delivering additional value to regional businesses.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in business, supply chain management or related field.
  • Master’s degree preferred.
  • 5 – 7 years strategic procurement experience, with preference for category management and large project negotiations.
  • Demonstrated track record and experience in managing contracting manufacturing procurement at other CPG organizations.
  • Experience providing project leadership and effectively managing projects.
  • Excellent analytical skills, especially around Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) within Contract Manufacturing/Tolling space.
  • Strong operations background preferred.
  • High level of contract knowledge.
  • Experience partnering with and influencing internal stakeholders (HR, marketing, sales, IT, legal, etc.) including ability to sell an idea and build consensus.
  • Strong communication skills including written, verbal and formal presentations.
  • Technically proficient with PowerPoint, Excel, Word, statistical software, etc required. Ability to efficiently create spreadsheets, pivot tables, other computer analysis, report writing.
  • Ability to multi-task and prioritize in complex, sometimes ambiguous and always fast-paced environment.
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills.
  • Experience developing and leading a high performing category management team.
  • Self-reliant and possess the ability to work independently and measure progress against goals.
  • 15% to 25% travel including potential international travel.
Benefits
  • Competitive compensation
  • Health & financial benefits
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Family planning support
  • Flexible work policy
  • Associate resource groups
  • Volunteering & community impact opportunities
  • Holiday gatherings
  • In-house taste tests
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic procurementcategory managementcontract negotiationssourcing strategiesspend analyticsTotal Cost of Ownership (TCO)supplier performance improvementvendor performance managementsupply market researchcontract manufacturing procurement
Soft Skills
analytical skillsproject leadershipcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsability to influence stakeholdersconsensus buildingself-reliancemulti-taskingprioritizationteam leadership
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in businessBachelor’s degree in supply chain managementMaster’s degree (preferred)