Senior Category Specialist

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC; Kraków; On-site; PLN 103,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Private medical care

Private group insurance

Employee assistance program

Attractive remuneration with bonuses

Job summary

Westinghouse Electric Company LLC in Kraków, Poland, seeks an experienced procurement professional to lead category management for assigned commodities. You will drive total cost reductions, supplier relationships, and risk mitigation while coordinating across Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement.

The role requires a BA/BS (MBA/MS preferred), 4+ years in procurement, and strong negotiation and data analysis skills. Excel, PowerBI, and ERP systems like SAP/Ariba are advantageous.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required (Preferably MBA or MS in any field of engineering)
• Minimum 4 years of procurement experience (preferably within industries with complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects)
• Minimum 2 years of experience in negotiations including RFI, RFP, RFQ and contract development
• Well developed Negotiating, Benchmarking, Market Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills
• Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration
• Previous experience analyzing and drawing conclusions from quantitative data
• Ability to engage at all organizational levels and cultivate and sustain high quality professional relationships
• Strong problem-solving skills along with time-management, prioritizing, planning
• Competence maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers (SRM)
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Access, Project, and Visio
• ERP system or similar system experience in a global environment is beneficial (SAP & Ariba)

Responsibilities

• Lead category and operational management for assigned commodities.
• Take direction from Senior Category Specialist to improve total cost, quality, delivery, and reliability.
• Manage internal and external suppliers to achieve role goals.
• Act as primary relationship owner for suppliers within assigned commodities.
• Segment spend into subcommodity groups to enable operational levers.
• Maintain a commodity strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost.
• Identify and mitigate risks and opportunities in the commodity strategy.
• Build commodity strategy through supply base right-sizing and awards with Long Term Agreements (LTA).
• Review business analysis from PowerBI and other tools to derive insights for spend projections.
• Support regular SRM reviews with strategic suppliers and senior leadership.
• Create presentations for supplier relationship management reviews and gap analyses.
• Support plans to deliver annual results against metrics such as payment terms and on-time delivery.

Skills

Negotiation

RFI/RFP/RFQ

Contract development

Vendor management

Quantitative data analysis

PowerBI

Excel

MS Access

Project

Visio

Education

BA/BS degree

MBA or MS in engineering

Tools

SAP

Ariba

Job description

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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.

You will lead category and operational management for assigned commodities. You will take direction from the Senior Category Specialist and work to improve total cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Strong relationship skills are required to manage internal and external suppliers to accomplish the role goal.

Key Responsibilities:

Primary relationship owner for suppliers within assigned commodities.

Manage the segmentation of assign spend into subcommodity groups to create levers to achieve operational excellence

Maintain an overall commodity strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost

Take an ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the commodity strategy

Build commodity strategy by supply base "right-sizing" and business awards with Long Term

Agreements (LTA) with year over year improvements in cost, delivery, quality, service, and profitability

Review business analysis from PowerBI and other tools to create insights into the drivers of assign commodity and possible effects to spend projections to use as levers with our supply base

Support regular business reviews (SRM) with important and strategic suppliers with teams and senior leadership

Create presentations for supplier relationship management reviews, commodity strategies, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and supplier/commodity gap analysis.

Support the plan to deliver annual results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Procurement Leadership

Research, track, and communicate 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 peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement

Qualifications:

BA/BS degree required (Preferably MBA or MS in any field of engineering)

Minimum 4 years of procurement experience (preferably within industries with complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, with a focus on procurement)

Minimum 2 years of experience in negotiations including RFI, RFP, RFQ and contract development

Well developed Negotiating, Benchmarking, Market Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills

Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration

Previous experience analyzing and drawing conclusions from quantitative data

Ability to engage at all organizational levels and cultivate and sustain high quality professional relationships

Strong problem-solving skills along with time-management, prioritizing, planning

Competence maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers (SRM)

Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Access, Project, and Visio

ERP system or similar system experience in a global environment is beneficial (SAP & Ariba)

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We are committed to transparency and equity in all of our people practices. The base salary range for this position, which is dependent upon experience, qualifications and skills, is estimated to be 9250 PLN to 11600 PLN gross per month. In addition to base pay, this role may be eligible for incentive pay based on company and individual performance.

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energysolutions. 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

Westinghouse offers great benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.

Benefits offered in Poland include:

• Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group
• Attractive remuneration with bonuses
• Hybrid model of work, flexible working time
• Private Medical Care
• Private Group Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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