Director non-Production, Category Management Procurement

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Job Summary:

In this role, you will be accountable for all external “production” related categories, along the related “program management”, globally. In congress with the Sr. Dir, Category Management, Procurement, responsible and accountable for developing, implementing, and sustaining Production Procurement plans and strategies globally. Directly and through teams you will drive the agreed annual procurement initiatives to successful execution and will assure achieving given targets in particular risk mitigation and cost savings.

You will act foremost as the upstream and downstream communicator translating enterprise targets into Category Management priorities. You will partner with the Director(s) Procurement Operations and Director Non-Production Category Management as to vet and decide for what activities may fall into each function plus to collaborate on continuous supply assurance. In this capacity, you will have the opportunity to further transform new market trends, potential sources and future technologies into solutions previously unknown to West.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Establish Production Category Procurement strategy and lead the individual production category managers, helping them to be successful delivering their current objectives, plus to provide Mid-term outlook and vision.
• Build and keep up a trustful and fruitful relationship with cross functional peers. Align cross functional targets as to balance resources helping both, Procurement´s and other functions target to be achieved.
• Assure that all Procurement related targets, mainly focused on risk mitigation and cost savings are delivered on time and in full.
• Drive the annual materials budget process along with periodic price variance measures.
• Apply highest standards for supplier quality performance striving to enforce West´s zero defect aspiration by means of performance meetings, audits and continuous improvement programs.
• Keep our supplier community accountable for compliance and ethical behavior reflecting West´s “business partner code of conduct”.
• Balance the supplier base adjusted per category as to either consolidate or to expend the number of suppliers as deemed adequate to run most efficient and effective our categories.
• Set up category management routines as to balance rigger process discipline e.g. in regards meeting cadence, use of templates, documents and nerve center vs. necessary flexibility as to stay agile responding short-term demands.
• Identification of opportunities by means of profile and segment categorization, spend analysis, opportunity assessment and stakeholder mapping, finding and implementing strategic sourcing solutions previously unknown to West, or previously known but not actioned.
• Performing Needs and Situation Analysis by researching market trends and assessing supplier capabilities, while fully understanding and having a deep knowledge of the global landscape of the category in terms of supplier base, technologies, competitive environment, market…