Regional Category Manager

Do you want to gain incredible experience with a growing company in an amazing industry? Do you know how often you use conveyor and power transmission belts?

Apply your skills in a company that helps bring packages to your doorstep, food to your table, keep you healthy on a treadmill, facilitate automation and so much more! Our organization is highly focused on customers, employees, entrepreneurship, agility and responsibility. Our values and continuous improvement culture build the foundation of strong and sustainable businesses appreciated by our employees and customers around the world.

Purpose: Regional Category Managers dive into local nuances, customer satisfaction, and growth within specific regions.

Scope and Dimension:

• Allocated to 6 Manufacturing Units in the United States/Canada
• Manage 30M+ indirect spend (assigned categories) growing double digit in revenue YoY
• Categories covered - Maintenance, Repair, Operations (MRO)
• May Manage a small number of junior Buyers
• Part of the Global Procurement Team

Accountabilities:

• Individual accountabilities
• All indirect purchasing activities
• Supply base management
• Indirect spend - delivery of savings plan
• Purchase Requisition processing - to create Purchase Orders
• Supporting Global Procurement in the area of contract management
• Sourcing - all indirect cases for the plant (following Global Procurement rules)
• Following Ammega Sourcing Process - Sourcing Committee

Shared Accountabilities

• Regional support of Global Savings Initiatives that are managed by Global or Regional Category Manager
• Cashflow improvement initiatives that requires company wide implementation

Key linkages & interfaces / most important stakeholders

• Operations Site Management
• HSE, Finance, Legal, R&D organization
• Global Procurement Team & Local procurement organization

Requirements of Job:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in similar role within global procurement organizations.
• Minimum Bachelor Degree in a relevant field.
• Specific Category knowledge of packaging, freight, energy, IT, HR, office supplies, capital projects, tail spend, etc.
• Comfortable in working in matrix environment and in cross functional teams
• Manufacturing industry and experience in volatile supply markets is desirable
• Capacity to deliver high quality work to tight deadlines and manage a diverse workload
• High level of analytical skills including advanced Excel skills, Power BI, etc.
• Frequent global travel needed to AMMEGA locations and suppliers (25%)