Assistant Chief Manager

3 days ago


Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India John Cockerill Full time US$ 1,20,000 - US$ 2,00,000 per year

The Global Category Manager is responsible to manage their supplier commodity panel with a strong financial QCD performance orientation

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop the regional and global strategies of the panel under their responsibility. Enforce group and local conditions as required
  • Develop and present the short / medium / long term action plan of their commodity that meets the objectives of the Industry Procurement performance strategy
  • Provide market data on their category for the Sector
  • Global reference for the Sector on their categories
  • Accountable to present Category Roadmap up to date on 6M Rolling base
  • Coordinate volume /planned productivity discounts for their global commodity panel
  • Participate actively in the budget preparation of their commodity savings performance
  • Participate actively in the LTP and budget preparation with regional Procurement Heads and Industry CPO
  • Review supplier performance monitoring (scorecard, escalations, panel inputs/outputs)
  • Develop and maintain the relationship with key panel suppliers, develop John Cockerill C-Levels associated at suppliers
  • Lead and propose cost optimization actions including VAVE, Make or Buy and other levers as needed.  Manage the associated negotiations and lead the Sourcing coordination
  • Develop savings actions road map for the panel under their responsibility and share / support the Lead Buyers community associated on savings actions
  • Animate the Lead Buyers community associated on their categories and project
  • Manage annual and globalization negotiations
  • Finalize the project buyers negotiation (level 2) when needed
  • Provide project buyers with a structured panel for their Category
  • Support management of series crisis actions (supply of product, quality issues, etc.)
  • Ensure the conformity / validity of purchasing data recorded in ERP and reported in iValua
  • Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

  • Master in Business and or Engineering with emphasis or experience in Procurement or equivalent; and 10 years procurement with manufacturing, engineering related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 3 to 5 years of strong technical experience with Metals and Industry business
  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Must be able to assess reasonableness of the analysis performed

Background, Skills and Competencies

  • Must have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with Engineering; Procurement, Top Management and other plant and office personnel
  • Strong negotiation skills, ability to bear under pressure
  • Practical expertise in office systems such as Excel and ERP tools such as SAP and Ivalua (e.g. purchasing - projects)
  • Customer orientation, concern to offer a permanent quality service to internal clients,
  • At ease in a matrix organization and a support department
  • Analytical mindset, ability to formalize, structure and great rigor in work
  • Agility in a changing professional environment
  • Diplomacy, good communication skills, both oral and written, and ease in dealing with all types of interlocutors
  • Very good team spirit and willingness to contribute to the team
  • Reliability, integrity, honesty, discretion
  • Comfortable with an international environment and multicultural aspects
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in other languages is a plus

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