Sun Chemical

Category Leader – Indirect Procurement

Sun Chemical

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Northlake • Illinois • Ohio • United States

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Salary

💰 $105,000 - $125,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Define a fully comprehensive category strategy for Indirect goods and services based on assessments of internal and external markets.
  • Translate regional/global procurement strategy into detailed category plans with a set of measurable global, regional, and local targets.
  • Facilitate procurement processes and policies for regional/global alignment.
  • Identify opportunities for cost reduction and avoidance attributable to the P&L.
  • Execute on target opportunities by conducting strategic sourcing projects and supplier selection initiatives using best practices and e-sourcing/digital tools.
  • Lead the negotiations and development of key contracts with suppliers, legal, and business stakeholders.
  • Develop risk management strategies to avoid potential supply disruptions including alternative sourcing options and product/service availability.
  • Lead a supplier enablement strategy to maximize spend transactions and manage key strategic supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and service commitments are met.
  • Lead the optimization of digital cataloging of key procurement contracts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree with 10+ years of procurement/purchasing leadership experience in Indirect Procurement.
  • Experience with SAP Ariba and other SAP tools.
  • Experience in international procurement/sourcing with a track record of leading change and cost reduction in cross-cultural environments.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, highly organized, and have excellent problem solving/decision making abilities.
  • Excellent analytical and financial acumen including cost modeling, budgeting, and forecasting.
  • Proven strategic behavior and decision making that creates a clear vision and strategy while leading a function in a complex, matrixed environment.
Benefits
  • merit increases
  • paid holidays
  • Paid Time Off
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • short and long term disability benefits
  • 401(k)+match
  • life insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
procurementstrategic sourcingcost reductionrisk managementcontract negotiationfinancial acumencost modelingbudgetingforecastingsupplier selection
Soft Skills
communicationorganizational skillsproblem solvingdecision makingstrategic behaviorleadershipcross-cultural managementanalytical skillsvision creationrelationship management