Function:
The Category Procurement team is the Direct Procurement business partner to the Product Business Unit (BU). Working closely with the respective BU, Engineering, Procurement, Manufacturing and Supply Chain functions, the Category Procurement Manager will be owning end to end Procurement project management for respective Product throughout the product life cycle, ensuring NPI products are supported and delivered from a Procurement perspective on: right sourcing, dual sourcing & risk management, right pricing, cost avoidance, capacity and material readiness, delivering to the project timelines.
Responsibilities:
The Category Procurement Manager is responsible for proactively managing assigned NPI and LX projects/products, ensuring Procurement engagement from early concept phase to End of Life (EOL).
As a Category Procurement Manager, you will:
- Ensure Procurement milestone deliverables and KPI’s are proactively managed, tracked and met to support new product introduction (NPI), for SOP and launch of all main SLU’s/markets.
- Report Procurement project status to Operations and senior stakeholders.
- Identify, mitigate and report Procurement risks for assigned projects.
- Develop and manage project sourcing plans, including dual sourcing plans and dual sourcing business cases with cross-functional input and alignment.
- Drive the right sourcing decisions at the right time, to ensure enough supply chain capacity is installed for mass production.
- Collaborate with Global Commodity Managers (GCM’s) & Upstream Procurement to ensure Global Commodity strategies are aligned to support the Category portfolio and technology roadmaps.
- Collaborate with Product design teams to plan bought-out part/ material requirements and specifications release on time for supplier engagement and material readiness for prototype builds and mass production.
- Collaborate with BU, Product Design, Finance and GCM’s to drive NPI cost avoidance, LX cost reduction and ensure best pricing is achieved to meet the product target costs and business case requirements.
- Manage and report bought-out component/material pricing, cost opportunities and cost risks monthly, or whenever there is a change or up issue in specification / drawing revision during NPI. Collaborate with RDD and GCM driving cost opportunity meeting DDU cost target.
- Create and maintain the project dual sourcing business case and manage the implementation of the project dual sourcing plans with RDD/BU, to ensure dual sourcing delivers the return on investment and creates supply chain resilience.
- Drive product material delivery on time and in full (OTIF) to ensure products are clear to build from a procurement perspective and support manufacturing build plans, whilst avoiding and minimizing any material/component exposure.
- Contribute to on-going continuous improvement activities, identifying improvement activity and process improvements.
About you
- Degree level/CIPS qualification or equivalent.
- Category Procurement Management experience within NPI in a manufacturing and engineering environment.
- Commodity management / sourcing experience or an awareness of new supplier assessment and supplier selection processes
- Knowledge of costed bills of materials (BOMs)and business cases
- Strong commercial background and experience of managing and driving Direct Procurement cost avoidance and cost reduction activities.
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills: to be able to assess problems thoroughly and drive logical conclusions (i.e. common sense and not embarrassed to ask “silly” questions).
- Strong collaboration, stakeholder management and influencing skills and experience.
- Good verbal and written communication skills (in English) for reporting to all stakeholders at different levels, with the ability to convey issues concisely and accurately at all levels within the organisation
- Strong Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills and the ability to summarise and present information to stakeholder groups and cross-functional teams.
- Strong process orientation to govern and manage projects
- A fair-minded approach and ability to be totally objective.
- Assertiveness, a proactive approach, forward thinking and good attention to detail.
- The ability to challenge the norm and look for new ways of doing things.
- Accountability, integrity and confidence, always presenting the facts no matter what the circumstances and the ability to deliver under pressure and to tight timelines.
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