Category Group Director

The Category Group Director is accountable for leading and advancing the Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) Field portfolio, including Services, MRO (maintenance, repair and operations), Outage Services, and Track Implementation, representing approximately $3B in annual spend. This role provides direct leadership to the SS&P Field Category team (Mill Services and MRO), Outage Services, and Track Implementation teams, with responsibility for driving value creation, talent development, and PBM advancement.

This leader plays a critical role in accelerating value capture through strategic category management while fostering a unifying, highperformance culture grounded in Principled Based Management (PBM).

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support our facilities. The SS&P organization partners with our business partners and leverages best practices to uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities.

Develop and maximize team contribution

• Lead, coach, and develop leaders and team members to maximize their contribution, capability growth, and selfactualization.
• Model PBM and coach teams to apply economic thinking, disciplined decision-making, and profitable challenge to maximize contribution.
• Connect individuals to SS&P and Operations strategies, priorities, and longterm vision.
• Provide regular, actionable performance feedback and close capability gaps to improve performance and talent readiness.
• Support the growth, development, and movement of talent across GP and KII.

Accelerate value capture through category, outage, and track capabilities

• Work through leaders and teams to execute sourcing and category strategies that maximize value across managed categories.
• Ensure strong integration and prioritization of work across category management, outage services, and track implementation.
• Incorporate market headwinds and tailwinds into category visions and value bets to optimize outcomes for GP and KII.
• Remove barriers and enable teams to leverage adjacent capabilities (Data, Market Insights, A&I, IFC) to strengthen competitive advantage.
• Build and sustain trusted partnerships with key leaders inside and outside SS&P, with a strong focus on Operations strategies and priorities, including major productivity and investment initiatives.
• Align resources to priority categories while remaining alert to value creation opportunities in base categories.
• Promote a healthy sense of urgency while applying Koch's risk philosophy to deliver results.
• Help teams prioritize and deprioritize initiatives to remain aligned with Operations productivity bets and the vision to be the best manufacturer in the industry.

Foster a unifying, winning PBM culture

• Champion "One Team" thinking and integrated teamwork across SS&P and Operations.
• Lead at the intersection of strategy, execution, and culture to create direct financial impact, strengthen SS&P's value and talent, and help manufacturing succeed.
• Demonstrate and reinforce economic and critical thinking, disciplined decisionmaking, and speed to value.
• Promote continuous learning, PBM understanding, and leadership development across the organization.
• Own and champion transformation efforts by aligning the right skills, knowledge, and capabilities to create the highest value.
• Strengthen supervisory effectiveness and PBM capability of leaders and peers across the organization.

• Leader with experience leading complex, crossfunctional teams in category management, sourcing, or field services environments.
• Demonstrated ability to develop leaders, coach performance, and build highengagement, action-oriented teams.
• Strong economic thinker with a track record of disciplined decisionmaking and value creation.
• Experienced in partnering with operations and enterprise capability groups to deliver results.
• Able to lead through change, manage ambiguity, and drive transformation aligned with PBM principles.

• Experience leading large, multicategory spend portfolios.
• Deep understanding of outage services, Track implementation, and/or assetintensive operations.
• Demonstrated success integrating data, analytics, and market insights into strategies.
• Demonstrated transformational leadership skills to help organizations challenge their status quo.
• Experience using Plan, Do, Check, and Adjust methods to drive continuous improvements initiatives across an organization.