Global Direct Materials Category Lead (Remote)

Sanderson Recruitment (Ireland) Limited; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work From Home

Global travel

Job summary

Sanderson Recruitment (Ireland) Limited in Dublin is seeking a Global Category Manager to lead Direct Materials strategy across international spend. This senior role focuses on shaping category strategy, supplier performance and commercial delivery within a multinational environment.

The position requires 12+ years in Procurement or Category Management, proven success in global negotiations, and a track record of delivering cost reductions through should-cost analysis, TCO modelling and supplier

Qualifications

• 12+ years' experience in Procurement, Category Management or Supply Chain within a multinational environment.
• Proven success developing and delivering global category strategies.
• Strong experience managing complex global supplier relationships and commercial agreements.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver cost reduction through should cost analysis, TCO modelling and supplier challenge.
• Excellent negotiation, stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Experience operating within complex matrix organisations.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands on execution.
• Desirable experience engineering components, power, electronics; industrial manufacturing or technology environments; experience supporting New Product Introduction programmes.
• Able and happy to travel globally 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global category strategies across international supplier networks.
• Own supplier panel strategy including supplier consolidation, dual sourcing and risk mitigation initiatives.
• Lead strategic supplier negotiations and commercial framework agreements.
• Drive should cost modelling, total cost of ownership analysis and value engineering initiatives.
• Partner with product development and engineering teams to support new product introduction activities.
• Build and manage strategic supplier relationships focused on innovation, cost and performance.
• Establish supplier segmentation and governance frameworks.
• Lead supplier performance management across cost, quality, delivery and innovation metrics.
• Support responsible sourcing and supplier compliance programmes.
• Identify opportunities for supply continuity, resilience and operational improvement.

Skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Influencing

Strategic thinking

Cost reduction

Job description

Sanderson Recruitment (Ireland) Limited in Dublin is seeking a Global Category Manager to lead Direct Materials strategy across international spend. This senior role focuses on shaping category strategy, supplier performance and commercial delivery within a multinational environment.

The position requires 12+ years in Procurement or Category Management, proven success in global negotiations, and a track record of delivering cost reductions through should-cost analysis, TCO modelling and supplier