Category Manager - Best Cost

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

 

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Global Commodity Category Manager.

 

Your Day-to-Day:

This position is responsible for leading category and operational management for assigned commodities.  The position takes direction from the Best Cost Country Leader and works to improve total cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals.  Strong relationship skills are required to manage internal and external suppliers to provide timely and innovative solutions to meet business needs.

• Primary relationship owner for suppliers within assigned commodities.
• Responsible for managing the segmentation of assign spend into subcommodity groups to create levers to achieve operational excellence
• Develops and maintains an overall commodity strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the commodity playbook.
• Leads the execution commodity strategy through preferred supplier list (PSL), “right-sizing” non-preferred suppliers, and rewarding preferred partners with business awards tied to Long Term Agreements (LTA) with year over year improvements in cost, delivery, quality, service, and profitability.
• Reviews analysis from PowerBI and other tools to create insights into the drivers of assign commodity and implications to  spend and cost projections to use as levers with current and future supply base.
• Conducts regular business reviews (SRM) with key and strategic suppliers with cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
• Creates presentations for supplier relationship management reviews, commodity playbooks, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and supplier/commodity gap analysis. 
• Responsible for creating and executing a plan to deliver annual business results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Procurement Leadership.
• Research, track, and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased overall productivity
• Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement

 

Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

• BA/BS degree required (Preferably MBA or MS)
• Minimum 7 years of procurement experience (preferably within industries with large, complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, with a focus on procurement)
• Minimum 5 years of experience in negotiations including RFI, RFP, RFQ and contract development
• Must be fluent in Spanish with valid passport.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.
• Strong Negotiating, Benchmarking, Market Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills
• Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration
• Demonstrated ability to gather, analyze and draw conclusions from quantitative data
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate and engage at all organizational levels, ability to cultivate and sustain high quality professional relationships
• Ability to work individually or as part of a team environment
• Must be creative and have strong problem-solving skills along with time-management, prioritizing, planning and self-direction skills
• Ability to maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers (SRM)
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