Strategic Sourcing Category Lead

Bobcat Company; West Fargo (ND); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Doosan Bobcat, based in North America with headquarters in West Fargo, ND, seeks a Category Leader to drive supplier partnerships, manage commodity strategies, and support new product development.

You will analyze market trends, identify sourcing opportunities, and help ensure a reliable global supply chain with cross-functional collaboration across the organization and travel to supplier locations worldwide.

Qualifications

• Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, Engineering, or related fields.
• Experience Required: ~2+years.
• Degree in Supply Chain may replace experience.
• Travel Required: 20-40%.
• Occasional global travel.
• Must be able to communicate with everyone within an organization from shop floor personnel to CEOs of major corporations.
• Must practice good judgment which allows the individual to commit to the most appropriate action after considering alternate courses of action.
• Must have leadership skills which will allow the commodity manager to persuade others to also accept this action and help implement the action plan.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic development of their assigned suppliers.
• Must keep abreast of market conditions and changes within the supplier's organization that may affect our relationship.
• Experience with managing one commodity.
• Support the organization on all new product development programs and value analysis/value engineering programs.
• Ensure that appropriate product launch plans are in place during the New Product Development phases including aftermarket.
• Development of Commodity strategies.
• Alignment and implementation of the strategies.
• Execution of project completion with mentoring.
• Project support on cross functional teams.
• Demonstrate ability to adapt to change and seek solutions aligned with management?
• Foster strong and collaborative relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.

Skills

Adapt to change

Business case development

Forecast data analysis

Commodity knowledge

Deliver results

Professional demeanor

Stakeholder relationships

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or related field

Job description

Doosan Bobcat, based in North America with headquarters in West Fargo, ND, seeks a Category Leader to drive supplier partnerships, manage commodity strategies, and support new product development.

You will analyze market trends, identify sourcing opportunities, and help ensure a reliable global supply chain with cross-functional collaboration across the organization and travel to supplier locations worldwide.