Global Category Manager

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pentangle Tech Services | P5 Group is seeking a seasoned procurement professional to shape Capex sourcing across Asia, Europe and the Americas. You will partner with country buyers and category teams to translate business needs into actionable sourcing strategies and value creation.

With 6+ years in procurement, you will leverage Tableau, Power BI and Excel to deliver analytics that drive cost, service, cash and working capital improvements, while ensuring effective, English-language stakeholder

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years' work experience in procurement strategy, operations, or continuous improvement programs.
• Experience with cross-country stakeholder engagement and global programs.
• Fluency in English.
• Strong business acumen and commercial sense.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic sourcing of Capex category across Asia, Europe & Americas.
• Drive cost, service, cash, and working capital improvements through programs.
• Partner with cross-category stakeholders and country buyers.
• Develop data-driven sourcing strategies and use analytics tools to translate requirements into value.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

English fluency

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

Job description

• This role is responsible for supporting the strategic sourcing of the Capex category in Asia, Europe & Americas and to transformational value to the entire value chain of business
• This role would help drive cost, service, cash, working capital delivery across countries with strategic programs, support overall industrial portfolio & drive continuous improvement & transformational value generation programs.
• The role requires partnering with cross category stakeholders & country buyers, lead direct engagement programs, developing strong analytical data driven programs, formulating of sourcing strategies & usage of tactical & influential relationship with global industrial operation leaders to translate business requirements into procurement strategy and quantitative value & support creation of the overall one procurement agenda.
• Worked in a trans-national & global environment with minimum 6 years' work experience in procurement strategy, operations, continuous improvement programs.
• Experienced with Tableau, Excel, Power BI to drive smart business analytics
• Experienced in Food, FMCG, Pharma working environment w.r.t engineering & procurement organizations
• Sourcing Strategy Development (Industry/supply Intelligence and Spend & Cost Analysis)
• Have strong business acumen and commercial sense
• Internal Stakeholder Management.
• Effective Communication skill to influence others, Fluency in English.