Category Manager

1 month ago

Pittsburgh, United States VetJobs Full time
Job Description

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Requisition Number: 17724
Company: Westinghouse Electric Co
Location:
Cranberry Township, US

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Category Manager on our Global Supply Chain Solutions Team

Your Day-to-Day:
  • This position is responsible for leading category and operational management for assigned commodities. The position takes direction from the Director of Category Management and works to improve total cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Strong relationship skills are required to manage internal and external suppliers to provide timely and innovative solutions to meet business needs.
  • Primary relationship owner for suppliers within assigned commodities.
  • Responsible for managing the segmentation of assign spend into subcommodity groups to create levers to achieve operational excellence
  • Develops and maintains an overall commodity strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the commodity playbook.
  • Leads the execution commodity strategy through preferred supplier list (PSL), "right-sizing" non-preferred suppliers, and rewarding preferred partners with business awards tied to Long Term Agreements (LTA) with year over year improvements in cost, delivery, quality, service, and profitability.
  • Reviews analysis from PowerBI and other tools to create insights into the drivers of assign commodity and implications to spend and cost projections to use as levers with current and future supply base.
  • Conducts regular business reviews (SRM) with key and strategic suppliers with cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
  • Creates presentations for supplier relationship management reviews, commodity playbooks, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and supplier/commodity gap analysis.
  • Responsible for creating and executing a plan to deliver annual business results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Procurement Leadership.
  • Research, track, and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased overall productivity
  • Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement
Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:
  • BA/BS degree required (Preferably MBA or MS in any field of engineering)
  • Minimum 7 years of procurement experience (preferably within industries with large, complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, with a focus on procurement)
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in negotiations including RFI, RFP, RFQ and contract development
  • Strong Negotiating, Benchmarking, Market Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills
  • Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration
  • Demonstrated ability to gather, analyze and draw conclusions from quantitative data
  • Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate and engage at all organizational levels, ability to cultivate and sustain high quality professional relationships
  • Ability to work individually or as part of a team environment
  • Must be creative and have strong problem-solving skills along with time-management, prioritizing, planning and self-direction skills
  • Ability to maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers (SRM)
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Project
  • ERP system or similar system experience in a global environment is beneficial (SAP & Ariba)
  • Quantitative Analysis: Skillful in using quantitative analysis to understand business issues.
  • Influence: can influence and persuade other people, even without direct authority.
  • Recognition of Opportunity: Recognizes new opportunities and acts to take advantage of them.
  • Assertiveness: Able to defend a point of view and to confront others appropriately when necessary; unafraid to take controversial positions and challenge the conventional wisdom or status quo.
  • Creative Thinking: Able to think creatively, generating new ideas and approaches to situations.
  • Written Communication: A good writer; expresses ideas and positions clearly.
  • Cross Cultural: Able to interact effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds.
  • Technical Expertise: Extensive knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
  • Multi-Tasker: Ability to prioritize multiple stakeholders and competing priorities to meet critical business needs in timely manner
Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:
  • Safety and Quality
  • Integrity and Trust
  • Customer Focus and Innovation
  • Speed and Passion to Win
  • Teamwork and Accountability
Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:
  • Competitive Salary
  • Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
  • 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
  • Paid Vacations and Holidays
  • Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
  • Educational Reimbursement Program
  • Employee Referral Program


EOE of Minorities / Females / Vets / Disability.

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