Category Manager

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Chemours is seeking a Category Manager to join the Chemours Corporate Procurement team! This is a highly visible, key role within the Company and interacts closely with the Commercial Operations, Supply Chain and leadership teams across all three Chemours businesses. This position will report directly to the Procurement Director - TT at our Wilmington, DE Headquarters location.

• Category Strategies:
  Drive strategic sourcing process by gathering inputs/requirements/business objectives to develop and lead category strategies for the Chloralkali and Chlorinated Organics global category to deliver reliable, cost advantaged, and sustainable supply.

• Partnership:
  Strategic thought partner that fosters strong cross‑functional engagement and working partnerships to enable strategic planning and forecasting. Understands customer requirements such as volume, price, quality, delivery mode, supply risk and supply chain impacts and incorporated into category strategies. Executive level engagements with internal and supplier stakeholders which requires advanced communication and personal skills and deep business understanding

• Risk Management:
  
  Identify and mitigate supply risk, critical path supplies and services and help monitor/manage related site risks. Proactively develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies for key materials

• Negotiations:
  Defines negotiation targets: most desired outcome, best alternative, least acceptable outcome. Develop negotiation plans, gain alignment from stakeholders, lead cross‑functional, negotiation teams, and drive commercial negotiations to achieve best possible TCO pricing while maintaining set quality standards. Negotiates, prepares and executes procurement agreements

• Contract management:
  Conducts negotiations, documents agreements in contract terms and conditions, conducts contract legal and financial reviews, obtains internal approvals, implements contracts, reviews contract/supplier performance after implementation. Review and manage supplier contracts to ensure compliance with terms and conditions, drive value on new and existing contracts. Authoring Contracts with Firm KPIs that enhance Compliance.

• Data Analytics:
  Works efficiently between internal data (spend, contract data) and external intel and market trends, analyze local and macro markets, and identifies opportunities to optimize category portfolio to drive maximum value. Utilize data analytics to identify purchasing trends, identify timing for commercial action, and inform decision‑makers.

• Market Research:
  Analyze market trends, competitor activity, and customer demand to identify potential products /services and suppliers. Understands supply market – production routes, supplier share, market price, alternatives. Drives cost efficiency challenges in a volatile commodity market and chemical indices that require constant market monitoring.

• Vendor Management:
  Build and maintain relationships with suppliers, negotiating pricing, payment…