Global Category Senior Manager- Facilities
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Job Description Summary
Reporting to the Global Procurement Director- Plant Indirect and Real Estate, the Global Category Senior Manager - Facilities ( the “GCM”) is responsible for global category strategy development and execution of ~$290M in global Facilities category spend. The GCM will utilize a robust category management process to develop effective global and regional strategies that deliver value aligned with internal partner needs and shareholder expectations.The Facilities category and associated suppliers are typically a mix of global, regional, and local and represent significant opportunity and risk to multiple businesses and functions. The GCM is responsible for driving performance improvements in Quality, Service, Total Cost, Risk Management, Innovation, and Responsible Sourcing. The GCM will focus on improving spend penetration, global category strategy development and communication, and ongoing supplier relationship and risk management.
Job Description
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BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world. Advancing the world of health™ is our Purpose, and it’s no small feat. It takes the imagination and passion of all of us—from design and engineering to the manufacturing and marketing of our billions of MedTech products per year—to look at the impossible and find transformative solutions that turn dreams into possibilities.
We believe that the human element, across our global teams, is what allows us to continually evolve. Join us and discover an environment in which you’ll be supported to learn, grow and become your best self. Become a maker of possible with us.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
% of Time (estimated)
20%- Global strategy and savings pipeline development
25%- Stakeholder engagement
20%- Supplier relationship management
10%- Market intelligence and metrics reporting
15%- Strategy execution including bidding and contracting in collaboration with Procurement COE
10%- Market intelligence and metrics reporting
10%- Stakeholder/site escalation support
Scope of Responsibility:
For the Facilities category scope, the GCM will:
Collaborate with regional Facilities Procurement Managers and the Facilities Operations team to develop a pipeline of cost savings initiatives that deliver 5 – 8%+ savings return on spend
Conduct negotiation and RFX planning and contracting with suppliers
Collaborate with the global team to align and share best practices
Ensure category strategies are inclusive of regional business requirements, reflective of external regional market conditions and supply practices and result in three-to-five-year roadmaps of savings and value streams, and where appropriate, sustainability and innovation opportunities
Advocate for the implementation of category strategies, facilitate supplier selection to ensure consistency with category strategies, approved by stakeholders, and communicated appropriately to the end user community
Work with functional and platform leaders to ensure funding of Cost Savings, Cash Preservation, Contracting, Supplier performance improvement, and Risk mitigation projects
Promote and establish long-term cooperative relationships (through Supplier Relationship Management) with key suppliers and ensure that all suppliers are treated in a professional, ethical, accountable, and fair manner
Develop and maintain risk mitigation plans inclusive of proactive risk identification and risk prevention, mitigation, retirement, and compliance for assigned group of categories with businesses or functions
Address relevant aspects of the source-to-pay process aligned to corporate cash management objectives
Financial/Cost Objectives:
Deliver against functional goals including meeting or exceeding an annual contribution of 5-8% savings return on spend across near, mid and long-term driven by supplier savings and value delivery
Improve BD's financial position through cost savings, non-price value opportunities and price movement / inflation management and appropriate standard cost
Engage and influence Finance partners to drive appropriate quantification and visibility of financial impacts in the respective budgets through communication and consensus on strategies and processes
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