Category Manager

Job Description

Our client located in Toronto; Ontario is seeking a Category Manager accountable for end-to-end performance of the acquisition process via the management of the RFI &/or RFPs until the Pvet 4 stage for critical work packages (up to PVet 5 based on some Regions). The CM is expected to lead business critical supplier selection exercises to support business needs and to ensures the deployment, implementation and monitoring of agreed category strategies.

 

This will be a day shift position (total 40 hours per week).

Pay rate will be $40-$43/hr.

Starting ASAP (12 months contract)

 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible for supplier relationship management and continuous improvement of suppliers within his/her category (with the support of Supplier Performance Management Team if needed).
  • Management of supplier’s performance including, but not limited to, quality, cost, delivery, contractual performance and innovation.
  • Accountable for ensuring the most up-to-date knowledge of his/her supplier market, including new innovations and key emerging technologies relevant to their category.
  • An essential element of his role is to ensure that the suppliers provide the competitiveness required to support the business and to introduce optimal supply base changes to support business winning capability.
  • In addition to this their main tasks are:

Strategy:

  • Provide input into worldwide category strategies for short-, medium- and long-term needs
  • Ensure the relevant players have a good knowledge of need and support the category strategy so that the business secures targeted projects and customer competitive advantage.
  • Ensure that clear and measurable savings targets are identified and delivered by category and endorsed by business / project.
  • Ensure category commitment and spend compliance tracking is well reported.

Procurement Competitiveness Capture:

  • Monitor category markets on an on-going basis to identify and understand key players, newcomers, economic evolutions, market or regulation constraints, innovations and technology in order to support the development of the most up to date category strategies for the businesses.
  • Based on the above provide insights as to how products / projects could be more competitive via the adoption of different suppliers / methodologies / technology etc.
  • In conjunction with the Procurement Product, Bids and Project Managers (PPM) and cross functional teams, the CM supports the preparation of Make / Buy decisions (lead by the PPM) in order to optimise business performance.

Governance, Leadership and Performance Management:

  • Ensure governance is applied using KPI's and root cause corrective actions

Supplier / Acquisition Management:

  • Performance management of the supply base in line with the standards set out by the Global Category Manager.
  • Ensure that supplier competitions follow the governance process and are balanced and fair in order to improve business and customer performance.
  • Ensure that the supplier contracts and framework agreements are negotiated when required in line with the category strategies.
  • Ensure that global contracts / framework agreements are adopted and utilised.
  • Ensure that specific legal compliance government or special customer requirements are taken into account during conception / implementation of category strategies.
  • Ensure that e-Acquisition and all procurement tools are properly fully used according to governance procurement work packages at global level.
  • Ensure that the risks, opportunities and Tier supply chain mapping is understood and managed in order to optimise business performance.
  • Based on the performance management of the supply base identify the suppliers who require focused development actions and ensure that the Supplier Development Team have the required support / leverage to conduct successfully these actions.

Operational Support:

  • Ensure the Tactical Buyers receive all required information to raise the Procurement Orders.

Requirements

  • Reporting to the relevant Global Category Manager and / or Categories Team leader (CTL) depending of geographic location.
  • The CM works in close relation with the relevant Global Category Managers (GCM), the Categories Team Leader (CTL) and the Tactical Buyer (TB).  
  • Supports one or several procurement categories.
  • All actions have to be in line with the strategy defined by the Global Category Manager and the CM will have a regular feed back loop with the GCM.

 

 If you have the skills and experience that we are looking for to be successful in this role, please apply online, email or fax your resume to Rajwinder Kaur

[email protected]

FAX to 905-231-3860

www.winterstaffing.com

We are an equal opportunity Employer.