Manager Category Procurement
- Mossville, IL
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Accountable for the development, communication, and implementation of a worldwide sourcing strategy for Hydraulic components.
- Identifying performance gaps within the supply base and developing improvement plans for the identified gaps.
- Collaborating with the Supply Network on risk mitigation and using predictive cost modeling both geographic and component-based.
- Identifying, developing, and managing a high-performing global supply network for Hydraulic components.
Degree or equivalent experience desiredWhat You Will Have:
Planning: Tactical, Strategic: Knowledge of effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational (short term), tactical (1-2 years) and strategic (3-5 years) planning in support of the overall business plan.
- Contributes to short-term operational plans.
- Anticipates and adapts to plan changes.
- Monitors progress of work against plan as required to meet objectives.
- Reports variances and makes agreed-upon corrections.
- Under guidance, develops tactical plan for own direct responsibility.
Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
- Reviews others' writing or presentations and provides feedback and coaching.
- Adapts documents and presentations for the intended audience.
- Demonstrates both empathy and assertiveness when communicating a need or defending a position.
- Communicates well downward, upward, and outward.
- Employs appropriate methods of persuasion when soliciting agreement.
- Maintains focus on the topic at hand.
- Ensures negotiators have awareness of complementary yet diverse interests.
- Successfully completes significant negotiations, both internal and external.
- Details the risks of negotiation breakdown from each party's perspective.
- Protects own position, while demonstrating willingness to achieve win-win.
- Identifies similarities and differences in position and assesses impact on discussions.
- Detects and addresses lack of progress or a stalemate.
Audit and Compliance Function: Knowledge of major responsibilities and tasks of Audit and Compliance (A&C) function; ability to manage the operation of A&C function in various business environment.
- Manages one or more A&C functions or units.
- Facilitates compliance-related business process implementation or improvement initiatives.
- Implements specific organizational changes made in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
- Contributes to development of A&C strategies and plans.
- Improves key relationships and dependencies among Audit, IT and other business functions.
- Contributes to the establishment of best practices for A&C.
- Organizes and maintains data to be captured in the data warehouse for BI applications.
- Evaluates alternative BI products in terms of their potential value to organization.
- Develops targeted marketing campaigns based on BI analysis.
- Develops processes for transforming aggregate data into useful business information.
- Analyzes BI gained from multiple and diverse environments.
- Evaluates key benefits, drawbacks and rationale for existing BI activities.
- Advises on streamlining the procurement strategy to realize the strategic benefits of category management.
- Designs and develops supplier agreements and procurement policies with standard terms and conditions.
- Identifies roadblocks in the implementation of category management and recommends innovative solutions.
- Prepares reports to evaluate the impact of category management on the procurement process and present ROI data to management.
- Supervises the execution of all stages of the category management process.
- Trains others on category management to ensure a streamlined procurement process.
- Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk and reward.
- Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
- Develops quality standards and controls for suppliers.
- Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large suppliers.
- Evaluates issues and terminates supplier relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
- Ensures the fulfillment of report and record-keeping requirements.
- Participates in monitoring the execution for all stages of the strategic sourcing process.
- Trains others on strategic sourcing in multiple and diverse environments.
- Designs and develops standard supplier agreements and procurement policies with standardized terms and conditions.
- Works with complex strategic sourcing components including but not limited to negotiations, contracting, and continuous process improvement and implementation.
- Consults on strategic sourcing methods in relation to business relationships, inter-dependencies and integration.
- Develops and explains strategic sourcing best practices and rationale for the organization and industry.
- Hydraulics component and system experience
- Understanding of governmental, environmental, political, and geographic factors that influence a supply base
- Experience with lean manufacturing, an understanding of lean principles
- Prior supervisory experience
- These benefits also apply to part-time employees