Category Specialist

This position is responsible for performing key activities to assure supply continuity across specific commodities. This position takes direction from the Director of Category Management  and works cross-functionally to deliver cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Support for monitoring active projects, updating status, eliminating roadblocks, and escalating issues as appropriate.   
 

Reponsibilities:

• Conducts business analysis of spend from PowerBI and other tools. Provides insights into the drivers of spend history and implications to future spend projections using SIOP plan.
• Tracks business performance against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, price variance, commodity changes, and other business critical metrics to share with Procurement Leadership.
• Supports Procurement Program Managers (PPM), Commodity Managers (CM), and Senior Procurement Leaders in development of various program presentations including supplier relationship management, transformation progress, QBRs, Deep Dives, weekly High/Low lights reviews, and preferred supplier analysis.  
• Day to day support across PPM and CM teams solving business issues and analysis, as needed.
• Lead MDI (manage for daily improvement) activities to drive continuous improvement with Procurement Teams
• Perform competitive analysis with RFI, RFP, and RFQ development including assess results, document recommendations, and assist in communication of results to vendors and internal stakeholders
• Works closely with Senior Leadership to develop analytic tools to support Category Strategy, Category Leadership, and Procurement initiatives.
• Research, track and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased productivity
• Track receipts and payment price of certain commodities regularly to ensure critical supplier invoices are paid on time.
• Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement
   

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's Degree required
• 1 year of experience in procurement field 
• Proficient with Excel and PowerPoint; PowerBI, MS Access, Project, and Visio experience a plus
• Experience with SAP software a plus, but not required
• Advanced level of English Proficiency, any additional language proficiency is a plus

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  

• 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

Offer:

• Stable employment in SSC in Kraków
• Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group
• Attractive remuneration with bonuses
• Hybrid model of work, flexible working time
• Benefit package with Multisport card
• Life insurance
• Private Medical Care
• Charity initiatives
• Parking space for employees
• Employee referral program