Global Supply Manager – Lead Category Manager

Global Supply Manager – Lead Category Manager for Metal and Plastic Fasteners - Hybrid

Chesterfield, MI, USA

Montpelier, IN USA

Hopkinsville, KY USA

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It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World™. Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of approximately 48,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:  

As a Global Supply Manager, you’ll be part of our North American SEF team working as a hybrid employee.    You’ll get to:  

• Defining, leading and monitoring holistic regional supplier strategies, developing category and procurement expertise and talent, and driving best practices across the business units and strategic sourcing:
  • Deliver Year over Year productivity & working capital goals.
  • Close collaboration and interactions with Businesses/Plants to achieve annual productivity and working capital targets.

• Implementing category sourcing strategies and driving sourcing excellence in productivity and working capital (Direct Material spend up to $22M).

• Interactions with suppliers and colleagues across geographies and work cultures.

Strategic supplier management:

• Analysis and observation of the procurement markets as well as trade fair visits to identify new impulses:
  • Recognize trends in the delivery markets and weigh up opportunities and risks.
  • Observe the developments of new providers and technologies.
  • Obtain information about prices, suppliers, technical innovations for a range of parts.
  • Consider unique/specific regional and SBU needs during category strategy development.
• Establish strong and maintain effective relationships with key suppliers to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and productivity targets are met.
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve supplier performance issues.
• Establishing regular communication with strategic suppliers (key suppliers).
• Initiation and implementation of Supplier Days (supplier workshops or supplier Kaizen).
• Support, organize and participate in various events including supplier conferences and summits.

Material field strategy

• Defining, leading and monitoring regional supplier and category strategies, especially for Fasteners Metal and Plastic as Finished Goods:
  • Independent development of future-oriented strategies and purchasing concepts. with regards to the global orientation of the company with the aim of cross-plant application.
  • Consider unique/specific SBU needs during category strategy implementation.
  • Understand and link category strategy with GSM priorities and SBU goals.
• Maintenance and control that the suppliers are classified in the correct product group and subgroups (SIEVO).
• Reduction in the number of suppliers and bundling of purchasing volumes.

Conducting negotiations and concluding contracts

• Negotiate, implement, and manage supplier contracts and service level agreements.
• Ensuring contract compliance (internal approval process) and signature regulations.
• Ensuring that the contracts are registered in the group-wide database.
• Monitor markets and trends to renegotiate prices with suppliers.
• Analysis and negotiation of price adjustments by suppliers.

Execution of tenders / benchmarks

• Lead the supplier selection process through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes.
• Carry out price comparisons with the aim of optimizing the procurement situation, if necessary, initiate price and value analyzes, attempts, substitution of parts / materials.
• Carry out price comparisons and benchmarks based on the developed material-field strategies:
  • Clarify technical execution, quality requirements based on technical drawings, technical lists, etc. in order to obtain offers.
  • Select the suppliers who are eligible for the request for quotations. Compare incoming offers and initiate technical reviews.
  • Assessment of technical and organizational production possibilities based on the required quality.
• Accompany new part projects in cooperation with development from the product development phase and achieve cost reductions as far as possible.
• Use of new purchasing tools - e.g. eRFQ, eAuctions, should-costing’.

Supplier development and