Manager Digital Apps & OT

Manager Digital Apps & OT

Apply locations IND - Sonoco Performance Hub - K136 time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id JR-141285

Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Global Consumer Materials Category Management as a Category Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the business units have goods and services to operate at the most competitive cost. In this role, you will directly affect Sonoco's cost structure and have a direct impact on profit and loss (P&L). You will lead the development of cost reduction, process improvement, and productivity projects. You will align with the business unit and identify, develop, and execute category strategies across your assigned area to ensure customers are supported at the best value for Sonoco.

What you’ll be doing:

1. Create a clear vision and develop long-term strategic plans for the specific category spend area to support overarching category plans.
2. Ensure that the category strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs (and overall category strategy) and that the supply base is aligned with and capable of supporting these strategies.
3. Drive communication/reporting of strategy to keep internal clients informed of progress and benefits.
4. Identify and initiate focused projects (sourcing, demand management, etc.) and manage the pipeline of projects within selected categories to ensure results meet targets.
5. Engage the strategic sourcing team and tactical sourcing team to drive execution of projects in support of category strategies.
6. Lead supplier relationship management for strategic suppliers within the category.
7. Define KPIs and Targets and manage scorecards.
8. Become a subject matter expert in this functional area and provide commodity knowledge to internal clients on spend data, supply base, industry trends, benchmarking, and best practices.

This position is located at our Corporate Headquarters in beautiful Hartsville, SC, close to exciting destinations (Myrtle Beach, SC, Charleston, SC, Columbia, SC, and Charlotte, NC).

We’d love to hear from you if:

1. Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business, Operations, or Supply Management; MBA preferred.
2. 5 or more years of experience in Supply Management or related Leadership.
3. Annual spend is $25-$100MM.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any legally protected characteristic.

About Us

Founded in 1899, Sonoco (NYSE:SON) is a global provider of consumer, industrial, healthcare, and protective packaging. With annualized net sales of approximately $5.2 billion, the Company has 20,000 employees working in more than 300 operations in 34 countries serving some of the world’s best-known brands in some 85 nations. Sonoco is committed to creating sustainable products, services, and programs for our customers, employees, and communities that support our corporate purpose of Better Packaging. Better Life. The Company was listed as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies 2021 as well as being included in Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies for the third year in a row.