Global Category Manager - Badia Polesine, Italy

 

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Global Category Manager, Flexible/Semi-Rigid Packaging

 

The Global Category Manager, Flexible/Semi-Rigid Packaging is responsible for developing and executing global category strategy for flexible and semi-rigid packaging material sub-categories such as films, foils, pre-formed/thermoformed components to create value and manage risk.

This role reports to the Global Category Director for Packaging and interfaces with global and regional sites as the category expert, advisor and business partner. The Global Category Manager partners closely with the Packaging Sustainability Program & Category Manager and cross-functional teams in our manufacturing and corporate sites to include strategic sustainability business objectives and initiatives into the global category strategy, and supports the execution of assigned projects, including sustainability improvement projects to advance Dentsply Sirona’s corporate social responsibility. The category management scope spans across multiple divisions and global locations to meet the needs of the company, drive compliance to our preferred supply base (local, regional, global suppliers), manage a multi-year category strategy plan, and be the point of contact to manage day-to-day business needs for assigned global sites.

 

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes sub-category strategies with a three to five year roadmap with targeted sustainability projects to be executed at a global and regional level
• Develops and maintains relationships with key suppliers as part of strategic supplier management (SRM), continuously improves supplier’s performance. Develops diverse suppliers, drives to deliver innovation, secure capacities & improve capabilities (quality, service, delivery, responsiveness). Assists in supplier audits and quality agreement negotiations with critical suppliers to meet compliance, change control and implementation of change requirements.
• Identifies and drives procurement value projects, delivers cost improvements, operational efficiencies, and inventory optimizations in collaboration with suppliers and sites. Executes project plans, documents planned and actual delivered savings, and maintains project/savings tracking tool.
• Assembles savings opportunities, develops ideations/business cases, contributes to annual category strategy renewal, budget planning and multi-year value creation;
• Manages RFPs and contract negotiations per sub-category and priority, including new product development projects, spend leveraging and partnering with other global category managers to find synergies across company spend, eg. in specialty plastics;
• Executes value projects and mitigates revenue risk, e.g. supplier and material consolidation efforts, switch to new or keep “like for like” materials from strategic supply sources with focus on total cost of ownership, sustainable, cost efficient solutions and minimum packaging requirements for food/medical grade packaging;
• Leads BCP reviews as part of the company’s business continuity plan (BCP) assessments of their party suppliers to proactively address financial and operational risk prior to establishing relationships with new suppliers. BCPs aim to evaluate risk scenarios and find alternate, sustainable solutions.
• Prepares business cases and execution plans to drive cost savings and productivity programs, generates project charters and project plans to implement strategies and works closely with site engineering and procurement teams to implement packaging solutions;
• Manages financial savings and risk mitigation activities reporting within Dentsply Sirona’s reporting sys