Category Specialist - Direct Procurement

Requisition

At Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies, our 8,000+ global associates proud to come to work each day, knowing that what we do impacts the lives of patients around the world. For Terumo, for Everyone, Everywhere.

We make medical devices and related products that are used to collect, separate, manufacture and process various components of blood and cells. With our innovative technologies and service offerings, we touch a patient's life every second of every day and are committed to continuing to increase the number of patients we serve. Advancing healthcare with heart.

With some of the best and brightest minds in the industry, an unmatched global footprint, comprehensive benefits and a distinct culture, Terumo Blood and Cell Technologies is a great place to work, grow and be part of a team that is focused on making a difference. Join us and help shape wherever we go next. You create your future and ours.

In this high-impact role as a Category Specialist
, you'll play a key part in shaping our global procurement strategy by optimizing category spend, strengthening supplier performance, and driving cost-effective purchasing practices across the organization. Acting as a strategic extension of the Category Manager, you'll lead spend analysis, support global sourcing initiatives, and help build supplier relationships that ensure optimal inventory levels, supply assurance, quality, and delivery. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives in a data-driven, fast-paced environment and wants to influence category strategy on a global scale while making a measurable difference in operational efficiency and total cost reduction.

• Identify and execute alternate sourcing, supplier consolidation and localization to maximize pricing leverage, and cycle time improvements.
• Drive and manage enhanced margin through improved material cost savings.
• Drive category performance improvement to stated goals:
  Lead time improvements, Minimum Order Quantity improvements, Localization or Vendor Managed Inventory opportunities, Payment Terms, Incoming Quality, decrease inventory levels and increase inventory turns.
• Drive supplier performance improvements to stated goals.
• Understand Internal and Supplier Manufacturing Processes to improve cost and reduce waste.
• Prepare Business Cases, including ROI models, and effectively present Cost Savings and Risk Mitigation proposals to appropriate parties for approval and qualification.
• Develop and execute RFQ's, cost models, and estimates for initial project resourcing needs.
• Negotiate business T & C's relating to: payment terms, delivery terms, inventory strategies, lead times, price improvement, supply assurance and other strategic issues with key suppliers.
• Provide rigorous analysis of spend data and market trends/dynamics by site, supplier and/or category to prioritize and launch sourcing initiatives.
• Monitor current category market conditions, technology roadmaps and identify supply/demand challenges. Develop, implement and communicate tactical and strategic category plans internally as appropriate.
• Accountable for working closely with customer-facing teams, operation teams, and R&D and supplier engineering teams to ensure that the supplier strategy supports product and customer needs.
• Manage commodities/materials/spend to achieve the annual performance metrics applicable to Supply Chain - planning, logistics, warehousing, and procurement.
• In conjunction with operations leadership, direct supervisor, and peer leads in other regions, construct category and supplier strategies by region that support the manufacturing technologies currently produced in each region.
• Ensure that all supplier and sourcing strategies support the "best total landed cost" objective of the business, including costs of inventory ownership, transport, customs, duties and lead-time.
• Ensure that product compliance of suppliers meets all existing and future corporate social responsibility and product compliance requirements. Conduct periodic reviews of suppliers to ensure such compliance.
• Prepare and provide documentation of such compliance as is required by corporate and other regulatory…