Category Manager

4 weeks ago


Houston, Texas, United States Brunel Full time
Job Title: Category Manager

The Category Manager plays a critical role in ensuring the procurement of goods and services aligns with the company's strategic objectives. This position is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that minimize supply risk, optimize costs, and contribute to process automation.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop and execute sourcing activities contributing to the Supply Sourcing Plan.
  • Collect and analyze key data inputs from multiple sources to build robust category and sourcing strategies.
  • Develop category strategies that minimize supply risk, optimize cost, and contribute to process automation.
  • Validate category strategies and contract coverage to support business strategies and budget.
  • Plan and execute portfolios of sourcing projects enabling category strategies and manage on-time delivery to minimize disruption to business operations.
Requirements:
  • 5-10 years of relevant industry experience with a focus on Supply Chain Management or Oil and Gas Operations experience.
  • End-to-end experience in material management.
  • Competency in commercial and technical aspects of specified categories.
  • Contract negotiation experience.
  • Ability to analyze complex business processes, risk factors, and control systems.
  • Risk management skills.
  • Experience with ERP systems.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Spanish-bilingual highly preferred.

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