Senior Category Manager

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

Senior Category Manager
This position is responsible for leading a complex category to improve cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals.  The role will be required to lead and grow a category management plan for an assigned category.  The individual will take direction from the GSCS Manager or GSCS Senior Manager. Strong relationship skills are required to establish and implement strategies that have mid-term impact on business results in alignment with organizational needs, project timelines. Develops and implements new products, processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results. 
 

Resposnibilities:

• Responsible for leading and growing a category management plan for an assigned category. Utilizing levers to achieve operational excellence. 
• Maintains an overall category strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the category playbook.
• Ensures the execution category strategy through preferred supplier list (PSL), “right-sizing” non-preferred suppliers, and rewarding preferred partners with business awards tied to Long Term Agreements (LTA) with year over year improvements in cost, delivery, quality, service, and profitability.
• Leads key business reviews (SRM) with strategic suppliers to drive category strategy and attainment of category goals.
• Prepared presentations for supplier relationship management meetings, category playbooks, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and supplier/category gap analysis.  
• Responsible for creating and executing a plan to deliver annual business results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Leadership.
• Maintains extensive category knowledge by researching and tracking industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased overall productivity.
• Develop a productive working relationship with cross functional groups: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement

Key Competencies:

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
• 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 to all levels in the organization, including leadership.
• 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
  
   

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree required (Preferably MBA)
• Minimum 10 years of procurement experience (preferably within industries with large, complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, with a focus on procurement)
• Minimum 10 years of experience in negotiations including RFI, RFP, RFQ and contract development.
• Strong Negotiating, Benchmarking, Market Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills
• Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration.
• Demonstrated ability to gather, analyze and draw conclusions from quantitative data.
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to communicate and engage at all organizational levels, ability to cultivate highly effective teams to drive operational excellence.
• Ability to push for daily continuous improvement in standard work, talent development, and risk mitigation to meet or exceed organizational goals.
• Must be creative and have strong problem-solving skills along with time-management, prioritizing, planning and self-direction skills.
• Ability to maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers (SRM)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Project
• ERP system or similar system experience in a global environment is beneficial (SAP & Ariba)

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 (MyBenefit)
• Life insurance
• Private Medical Care
• Charity initiatives
• Parking space for employees
• Employee referral program

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

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