Company Profile:
The company is a leading manufacturer of sustainable packaging solutions to the industrial and consumer, healthcare markets.
Title: Associate Category Manager Raw Materials
Salary: £65-£75k with 7.50% bonus
Location: The successful candidate can reside in any of the following areas: North West, Yorkshire or East Midlands
Purpose of job:
Reporting directly to the Director Global Category Management as an Associate Category Manager you will be responsible to ensure the business units have goods and services to operate at the most competitive cost.
Key Accountabilities:
Create a clear vision and develop long term strategic plans for the specific category spend area to support overarching category plans.
Ensure that the category strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs (and overall category strategy) and that the supply base is aligned with and capable of supporting these strategies.
Drive communication/reporting of strategy to keep internal clients informed of progress and benefits
Identify and initiate focused projects (sourcing, demand management, etc) and manage pipeline of projects within selected categories to ensure results meet targets
Engage strategic sourcing team and tactical sourcing team to drive execution of projects in support of category strategies
Lead supplier relationship management for strategic suppliers within category
Define KPIs and Targets and manage scorecards
Become subject matter expert in this functional area and provide commodity knowledge to internal clients on spend data, supply base, industry trends, benchmarking, and best practices
Skills & Competences:
Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, or related field
3-5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Procurement, or related fields.
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