Global Category Manager

1 month ago

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India System Soft Technologies Full time
Job Title: Global Category Manager

System Soft Technologies is a premier technology company providing exceptional consulting services and solutions that drive innovation, enhance business value, and boost competitiveness. We are seeking a highly skilled Global Category Manager to join our team.

Job Summary

This role is responsible for supporting the strategic sourcing of the Capex category in Asia, Europe & Americas and driving transformational value to the entire value chain of business. The successful candidate will partner with cross-category stakeholders and country buyers to develop strong analytical data-driven programs, formulate sourcing strategies, and leverage tactical and influential relationships with global industrial operation leaders to translate business requirements into procurement strategy and quantitative value.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Portfolio Strategy Development
  • Analyze regional spend data and understand business needs.
  • Develop and implement best practices to formulate group standard operating procedures.
  • Provide country/regional market and supplier insights to maximize opportunities.
  • Support development of sourcing strategy with implications on the region and country.
  • Support supplier negotiation strategy at country, regional level as required.
  • Drive supplier innovation programs to deliver cost and cash improvement.
Strategy Alignment and Execution
  • Communicate and align global and local cross-functional teams on strategy.
  • Lead and prepare sourcing strategies & co-lead global negotiations.
  • Maximize portfolio coverage through contracting.
  • Actively engage key initiatives in region and country to ensure value levers are effectively played.
  • Work with plant teams to identify continuous improvement areas from a reliability point of view.
  • Project prioritization, lead/co-lead intervention projects in the regions with early-stage involvement.
Contract Implementation and Compliance
  • Work closely with regional, country procurement, and shared service center to ensure local acceptance of new contracts and extended value generation to increase customer satisfaction.
  • Make contracts with due diligence, liaise with legal to formulate best practices.
  • Coordinate contract implementation tasks with country procurement and business teams.
  • Closely monitor internal customers' contract compliance and define and take approved corrective actions to improve contract compliance.
  • Secure knowledge transfer and exchange by creating and storing project deliverables and relevant tools and templates in knowledge repositories/SharePoint.
Supplier Relationship and Risk Management
  • In line with defined procurement strategy, support classification and categorization of suppliers, including definition of supplier evaluation and audit policies.
  • Continuously track supplier performance according to a defined framework.
  • Lead supplier development activities, set up cross-functional review meetings with suppliers to improve performance and further improve value creation.
  • Initiate and conduct supplier audits according to a defined framework.
  • Proactively identify supply continuity risks and develop mitigation plans.
Qualifications
  • Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Petroleum, Production) preferred, CPIM, APICS, or MBA added advantage.
  • Minimum 6 years' work experience in procurement strategy, operations, continuous improvement programs in a trans-national and global environment.
  • Experience with Tableau, Excel, Power BI to drive smart business analytics.
  • Experience in Food, FMCG, Pharma working environment w.r.t engineering and procurement organizations.
  • Key internal customers: Country Procurement, Regional/Country Finance, Technical working groups, global industrial operations teams, Country Engineering Teams, GPE teams.
Functional/Business Skills
  • Sourcing Strategy Development (Industry/Supply Intelligence and Spend & Cost Analysis).
  • Strong business acumen and commercial sense.
  • Internal Stakeholder Management.
  • Effective Communication skill to influence others, Fluency in English.
Why System Soft Technologies?

We are united by diversity, inclusion, transparency, respect, integrity, and a deep passion for our clients and team members. Our growth is fueled by your professional development as we collaborate, share ideas, innovate, and invest in our future together. By building meaningful partnerships with our people, we embrace a common purpose to amplify ambitions, expand horizons, and exceed our goals. This synergy keeps us agile, ahead of the competition, and leaders in our industry. Our continued success starts with you.

System Soft Technologies is a proud equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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