Procurement Category Manager

Shelton, CT - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

JoinBIC World acommunity of brandsdedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed togrowing our iconic and innovative brandsby reimagining everyday essentials in new sustainable and responsible ways.

Our culture encourages aroll up your sleeves and get the job donemindset ensuring self-starters problem solvers and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful global impact on our mission.

TheManager Indirect Procurement Marketing Market Research &MarTechcoordinates the procurement strategies related to the Marketing category in the North American region. Supportsgoalsachievement by securing supply providing significant year-on-year cost improvements while meeting financial and budget targets. Implement demandproductivityand innovative improvements whilemaintainingproduct quality and managing vendor service levels. Interact with internal and external key stakeholders to develop effective cost reduction strategies and implementation plans. Manage effective interaction and collaboration with Business Partners Sustainable Procurement Center of Excellence and Operational Procurement teams.

What Youll Do:

Support/Coordinate the development and deployment of procurement strategies related to Marketing in the region. Follow alignment to priorities and performance goals executes the strategy and implement strategic procurement efforts and innovation in specific categories as necessary andappropriate. Deploy sourcing best practices and ensure they are widely adopted.

Follow strategy implementation. Track and trace forecasted performance vs. actual savings for the finding solutions to mitigate any supply risk.

Represent sourcing categories with regional stakeholders. Communicate sourcing market trends/results for categories to key stakeholders. Work with finance stakeholders to ensure savings are built and measurable into budgets and the annual operating plan. Support the sourcing team to be actively engaged in core business processes. Provide regional/local budget input on market effect standards and productivity initiativesimpactingcosts.

Participate in the processto selectandmonitorsuppliers. Coordinate the supplierselectionand negotiation process for key sourcing teams and overall management of the strategic suppliers to the group.

Lead regional/ local sourcing strategies in alignment with the global category strategy and oversee sourcing events.

Maintainexpertisein the category. Remain current with market trends through relationships with other Supply Managerssuppliersand market experts and ensure that we have a process to gain access/familiarity with emerging supplier capabilities.

Execute the Group Sustainability Targets and the sourcing strategies include Sustainable Engineering

Ensure compliance with internal and external policies regulations contracts management and laws as well as monitoring suppliers quality risk and compliance

Coordinate the Category Strategy Planning: Mobilize teams collect category insights (with analytics) & create profilesidentifyopportunities & prioritize projects (with Business Partner) and create the category and buying channel strategy

WhatWereLooking for in You:

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience isa must

A minimum of 5 years of Marketing Procurement is preferred (but a candidate with 5 years of Marketing experienceand no procurement experience may be considered)

Market research experience would be a plus

Strong negotiation skills ability topush-backwhen needed proactivesolutions orientedapproach

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products make better decisions and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation veteran status disability status or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications merit and business need.

BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.

Required Experience:

Manager

What Youll Do:

Support/Coordinate the development and deployment of procurement strategies related to Marketing in the region. Follow alignment to priorities and performance goals executes the strategy and implement strategic procurement efforts and innovation in specific categories as necessary andappropriate. Deploy sourcing best practices and ensure they are widely adopted.

Follow strategy implementation. Track and trace forecasted performance vs. actual savings for the finding solutions to mitigate any supply risk.

Represent sourcing categories with regional stakeholders. Communicate sourcing market trends/results for categories to key stakeholders. Work with finance stakeholders to ensure savings are built and measurable into budgets and the annual operating plan. Support the sourcing team to be actively engaged in core business processes. Provide regional/local budget input on market effect standards and productivity initiativesimpactingcosts.

Participate in the processto selectandmonitorsuppliers. Coordinate the supplierselectionand negotiation process for key sourcing teams and overall management of the strategic suppliers to the group.

Lead regional/ local sourcing strategies in alignment with the global category strategy and oversee sourcing events.

Maintainexpertisein the category. Remain current with market trends through relationships with other Supply Managerssuppliersand market experts and ensure that we have a process to gain access/familiarity with emerging supplier capabilities.

Execute the Group Sustainability Targets and the sourcing strategies include Sustainable Engineering

Ensure compliance with internal and external policies regulations contracts management and laws as well as monitoring suppliers quality risk and compliance

Coordinate the Category Strategy Planning: Mobilize teams collect category insights (with analytics) & create profilesidentifyopportunities & prioritize projects (with Business Partner) and create the category and buying channel strategy

WhatWereLooking for in You:

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience isa must

A minimum of 5 years of Marketing Procurement is preferred (but a candidate with 5 years of Marketing experienceand no procurement experience may be considered)