Director Category Management & Strategic Sourcing
- Milwaukee, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop strategic sourcing / purchasing plans that support the future profitability of the business
- Integrates and aligns our strategic sourcing activities with our operations, finance and program management teams.
- Maintains a high level of professionalism while supporting the organization.
- Demonstrates an understanding of business needs and requirements.
- Develops a culture of service and support for Enerpac stakeholders
- Provides the guidance and support needed to make the team successful as mentor and coach
- Exemplifies our company values driving a spirit of ownership and execution
- Support the team with personal development, coaching and training
- Set the team’s objectives & performance manage
- Responsible for all aspects of the direct materials team’s focus on category management including developing category strategies and executing strategic sourcing events prioritizing based upon the highest spend, greatest complexity, and most critical/strategic categories creating the largest impact.
- Leads category spend analysis and supplier segmentation.
- Responsible for developing and implementing direct procurement policies and processes
- Establishes proper category and supplier strategies to drive optimum value for the enterprise
- Supports and leads RFx processes and category management, if needed
- Develops a deep level of understanding of the global supply base.
- Responsible to ensure all risk, compliance and legal requirements related to procurement are followed
- Works with leadership to set value targets for the team
- Collaborate with Department leaders to manage stakeholder relationships and achieve buy-in for the Sourcing and Procurement strategies
- Collaborates cross-functionally to develop a pipeline for future projects.
- Supports cross functional departments with supplier negotiation, contract execution, purchase requisition training for direct material spend.
- Drives cross-functional project implementation, controls, and training for direct material sourcing activities, as well as providing related corporate-wide communication and direction.
- Analyze current spend and find areas to improve service, reduce costs, and streamline purchasing procedures
- Responsible for developing and managing supplier relationship management (SRM)
- Manages and develops strategic supplier alliances with a select group of suppliers to assure a preferred status for Enerpac in negotiations
- Leads the direct procurement spend analytics process to maintain access to accurate category level spend data
- Identify opportunities to optimize and streamline our procurement processes, from sourcing to payment (S2P), to ensure operational efficiency and cost savings.
- Implement best practices and leverage technology to drive automation and standardization
- Provides support for on-going PO management activities
- Knowledge of direct category procurement strategies and processes within a manufacturing environment
- Superior negotiation skills with the experience in developing team members skills
- Procurement knowledge: Deep understanding of procurement category management, stakeholder management and negotiations; have a desire to continually learn about evolving procurement opportunities
- Strong listening skills and ability to work with senior leaders – inside and outside of the organization - to understand their goals and objectives; share project objectives and progress in a clear concise manner.
- Strong analytical and presentation skills: have a strong ability to analyze significant amount of data and summarize findings or options for senior leadership
- Strategic thinking: able to “see around corners,” synthesize insights from disparate data sources, and present recommendations and alternatives.
- Desire to be a supportive and proactive business partner across the organization.
- Ability to develop metrics which will drive total value for the enterprise
- Management, tracking, and reporting of key commodities, currency and market trends from a historical and forecasting perspective.
- Ability to show resilience over time and collaborate across multiple functions and organizational levels
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 10 years of experience in procurement in a manufacturing environment
- At least 5 years of team leadership
- Ability to travel up to 25%
- Experience within an Oracle based ERP environment
- Experience in Procurement managing a multi-site manufacturing and multi-cultural international team and supply base in low-cost regions.
- Financially literate, especially in P&L and cash-flow modeling, scenario building and comparatives analysis
- Outstanding analytical skills with the ability to use a structured approach to understand, analyze and solve complex problems / issues