Director Global Category, Packaging

1 month ago

Charlotte, United States tapwage Full time

Dentsply Sirona is the world’s largest manufacturer of professional dental products and technologies, with a 130-year history of innovation and service to the dental industry and patients worldwide. Dentsply Sirona develops, manufactures, and markets a comprehensive solutions offering including dental and oral health products as well as other consumable medical devices under a strong portfolio of world class brands. Dentsply Sirona’s products provide innovative, high-quality and effective solutions to advance patient care and deliver better and safer dentistry. Dentsply Sirona’s global headquarters is located in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. The company’s shares are listed in the United States on NASDAQ under the symbol XRAY.

Bringing out the best in people

As advanced as dentistry is today, we are dedicated to making it even better. Our people have a passion for innovation and are committed to applying it to improve dental care. We live and breathe high performance, working as one global team, bringing out the best in each other for the benefit of dental patients, and the professionals who serve them. If you want to grow and develop as a part of a team that is shaping an industry, then we’re looking for the best to join us.

Working at Dentsply Sirona you are able to:

Develop faster - with our commitment to the best professional development.

Perform better - as part of a high-performance, empowering culture.

Shape an industry - with a market leader that continues to drive innovation.

Make a difference -by helping improve oral health worldwide.

Global Category Director, Packaging

Scope:

- Responsible for developing, communicating, and driving execution of the category strategy for our $60MM Primary and Secondary Packaging Spend.
- Lead overall management of the category and suppliers supporting this spend to best-in-class quality, delivery, service levels and price.
- Play a key role in defining and continuously improving policies, processes, KPI’s, etc. needed to optimize management of the spend across the Dentsply Sirona network as part of our broader procurement transformation.
- Play a key leadership role in continuing to shape the sustainability strategy for the packaging category. Serve as an active team member on the Sustainable Packaging Team to execute and deliver sustainable packaging projects, savings and mitigate risk from non-sustainable packaging for Dentsply Sirona globally.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner closely with key business stakeholders (e.g. Product Management, R&D, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory, Engineering) to understand current and future business requirements and proactively address.
- Evaluate sustainability as a driver for business advantage and incorporate sustainability in all packaging sub-category strategies. Develop a pipeline for sustainability and category savings.
- Communicate overall market & category trends/results to management and stakeholders.
- Proactively analyze market conditions and supply base to identify and address potential risks and opportunities.
- Employ a total delivered cost framework and approach to achieve total value improvement.
- Apply clean sheet/should cost modeling.
- Identify and drive procurement projects to deliver cost savings and ensure project plans and related savings are documented and maintained.
- Drive supply base optimization (e.g. best cost country sources, supplier consolidation, reduction of sole/single sources, etc.).
- Define and execute strategies to mitigate supply risk.
- Conduct thorough analysis of spend portfolio to align appropriate strategies.
- Perform supplier segmentation to align resources and determine appropriate engagement models.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers (Strategic Vendor Management, SRM) at executive leadership level.
- Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews with strategic suppliers.
- Drive supplier performance management, supplier innovation contribution and continuous improvement of supply base.
- Assemble & execute RFI’s, RFQ’s, and negotiations. Ensure timely and compliant implementation of new contracts and manage supplier agreements through contract life.
- Develop guidelines, policies and standards that support/enable your defined category strategies.
- Ensure supply base fulfils compliance requirements.
- Manage and develop Spend cube integrity for responsible categories to ensure proper spend classifications.
- Assemble and manage team budget.
- Coach, lead, manage team performance to continuously improve.
- Execute benchmarking to identify and implement best practices.

Education & Experience:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business/Finance, Supply Chain or equivalent
- MBA (desired)
- 7+ years in Procurement or Supply Chain with Commodity/Category management experience
- Experience developing and managing supplier contracts
- Experience leading global teams & projects
- Experience building & developing teams
- Packaging engineering, material sciences, environmental sciences or equivalent experience (desired)
- Medical/pharma industry experience (desired)
- Expected travel of 20% (domestic & international)

Certifications & Licensing: (desired)

- CPP, CPM, CPP, CPSM, SPSM

Key Required Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities:

- Proven ability to manage/lead a virtual team
- Adept at navigating a matrixed environment
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong analytical & problem-solving capability
- Strong project management skills
- Able to manage multiple projects & priorities
- Able to develop strategic, multi-year, multi $M supply relationships
- Proven track record in delivering cost savings/results
- Fluent English language skills

The salary for this remote role is approximately between $150,000 and $190,000. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location.

Dentsply Sirona is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, or protected Veteran status. We appreciate your interest in Dentsply Sirona.

If you need assistance with completing the online application due to a disability, please send an accommodation request to [careers@dentsplysirona.com](mailto:careers@dentsply.com). Please be sure to include “Accommodation Request” in the subject.

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