Membrane Category Manager for Water Activities H/F

SUEZ; Puteaux; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SUEZ is seeking a Category Manager to lead the Membrane category for Water Activities on a global scale. The role partners with internal stakeholders, defines the category strategy, and drives purchasing contracts and supplier relations to maximize TCO, risk management, and innovation.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in procurement, a Master’s in Procurement, and strong negotiation and leadership skills. English fluency is required to collaborate across regions.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in a procurement role.
• Master's degree in procurement or related field.
• Fluent English required.
• Technical appetite and category knowledge advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define and steer the Membrane category strategy globally.
• Act as a business partner with internal stakeholders.
• Lead and manage purchasing contracts and orders with supply solutions.
• Negotiate and monitor global agreements and KPIs.
• Coordinate with E&C, Operations, and engineering teams.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication skills

Risk management

Leadership

Customer focus

English fluency

Education

Master's in Procurement

Master's in Business or Engineering

Job description

Who We Are

Faced with growing environmental challenges, for more than 160 years,

Contract type CDI

Who We Are

Faced with growing environmental challenges, for more than 160 years, SUEZ has been acting to deliver essential services that protect and improve the quality of life. SUEZ enables its customers to provide access to water and waste services, with resilient and innovative solutions.

With its 40 000 employees present in 40 countries, the Group also enables its customers to create value over the entire lifecycle of their assets and services, and to drive their ecological transition, together with their end-users.

What You Will Be Doing

The Category Manager manages at global level the Membrane category for Water Activities to maximize its contribution to performance (TCO, risk management, operational performance, innovation, etc.), business development (innovation, differentiation, regional anchoring) and supply chain sustainability.

He/she acts as business partner with internal stakeholders.

He/she defines, executes and steers the Membrane category strategy to capture sustainable value for SUEZ.

He/she is very operational, by being on daily /regular contact with E&C and Operations to lead and manage directly Purchasing Contracts and Orders with supply solutions to maximize performance based on TCO in close coordination with Engineering, searchers, proposal and execution teams.

Defining and steering a category strategy

• Develop and maintain category expertise and market watch including competitors, suppliers market, market trends & innovations, in connection with technical experts.
• Understand and challenge current and future business needs including demand management in accordance with BU procurement teams to be aligned with BU category strategy.
• Build & steer category core team globally (including O&M Category leader, Project Buyer, key BU and DU stakeholders, etc.).
• Global approach for BUs and DUs:
  • Co-design global category strategy with category core team (using appropriate levers: contractual negotiation, contract implementation and compliance, standardization, demand management, TCO, TVO, etc.)
  • Participate to commercial bid and add value and differentiation.
  • Risk management and mitigation plan anticipation.
  • Organise Business Review with strategic suppliers (with Feedback (REX), current projects/works, coming projects/works…).
  • Lead RFQ for strategic projects.
  • Validate supplier short-list and lead negotiation for strategic lots for Bus/DUs and delegate lo local buyers according to defined threshold.
  • Participate to supplier choices with E&C on strategic sourcing before projects and at execution stage.

Supplier Relationship Management and optimization

• Negotiate, execute and monitor global agreements (KPIs, continuous improvement, customer/supplier balance, etc.).
• Manage or support contractual or business litigations (escalation process).
• Support BUs and DUs in Global/local supplier or contract negotiations.
• Support CSR initiatives related to category.

Category performance steering

Track & report category performance globally (KPIs, reporting, etc.) to procurement/management/business.

Who We Are Looking For

Business and/or Engineering school. Master's in Procurement.

At least 5 years’ experience in a procurement role.

Technical appetite.

The following are considered an advantage: prior knowledge of the product category, as well as knowledge of the market and suppliers.

Hard skills: negotiation, communication skills, risk management.

Soft skills: leadership, open and collaborative mindset, customer focus.

Fluent English;

BU: Business Partners

CATEGORY: Cadres