Category Manager – Maintenance & Services
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Job Summary
Category Manager Maintenance & Services with French
Location: Paris France
Industry: Manufacturing / CPG / FMCG
Role Overview
The MRO Category Lead will bring deep subject matter expertise and is seen as thought leader in the Category Management of the MRO Category. This individual will have the capability to conceive initiate develop communicate and manage the execution of an MRO category strategy in the FMCG/CPG/Manufacturing domain. They will need to demonstrate and display history of development and implementation of an MRO Category Strategy with multiple strategic initiative delivering quantifiable benefits. Additionally the MRO Category Lead will have extensive experience in business stakeholder engagement and a consultative approach to drive transformation of the MRO category in a client environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Governance
Category Strategy & Spend Management
Stakeholder Collaboration
Financial & Value Delivery
Qualifications
Soft Skills & Competencies
Location: Paris France
Industry: Manufacturing / CPG / FMCG
Role Overview
The MRO Category Lead will bring deep subject matter expertise and is seen as thought leader in the Category Management of the MRO Category. This individual will have the capability to conceive initiate develop communicate and manage the execution of an MRO category strategy in the FMCG/CPG/Manufacturing domain. They will need to demonstrate and display history of development and implementation of an MRO Category Strategy with multiple strategic initiative delivering quantifiable benefits. Additionally the MRO Category Lead will have extensive experience in business stakeholder engagement and a consultative approach to drive transformation of the MRO category in a client environment.
Strategic Leadership & Governance
- Set overarching category and sourcing strategy for the engagement ensuring alignment between strategy and delivery
- Lead direct and develop regional delivery team (category managers sourcing specialists buyers) setting priorities and removing blockers
- Establish governance cadences escalation paths and steering forums to keep engagement on track and stakeholders aligned
Category Strategy & Spend Management
- Develop and execute category strategies for MRO aligned with business and operational goals
- Drive category plan alignment across the regions ensuring seamless integration of category-led proactive-regional local or reactive (eg contract renewals) events
- Manage end-to-end category lifecycle including spend analysis and total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization working in close proximity with the client and cooperation with the CAPEX category manager
- Identify opportunities for consolidation standardization and preferred supplier programs across sites
- Negotiate commercial terms pricing models service levels (SLAs) and master service agreements (MSAs)
- Help regional buyers drive sourcing projects
- Drive continuous improvement cost reduction and cost avoidance initiatives with services suppliers
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Serve as the senior point of contact and strategic business partner to the client building trust and managing expectations at leadership level
- Represent delivery status risks and value creation to client executives and internal leadership
Financial & Value Delivery
- Deliver and report annual cost savings cost avoidance and value creation metrics
- Leverage should-cost models rate benchmarking and market analytics
- Approximately 8-10 years experience in handling category management activities in the MRO space
- Business or Engineering school graduate is a must dual degree is a plus
- Professional certification (CPSM CPSD CIPS PMP) preferred
- Exposure in drafting category strategy sourcing planning business case creation sourcing execution and contract closure
- Good client facing & client management skills
- Demonstrated experience with maintenance and services procurement in multiple geographies
- Experience working with global regional and local suppliers at different levels within multiple geographies
- Very good communication skills
- Strong customercentric mindset (clientfacing experience preferred) creating proximity
- Transformation mindset with ability to identify improvement opportunities
- Highly organized proactive and goaloriented
- High integrity attention to detail and strong prioritization skills
Required Experience:
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