VP Category Management

Georgia Pacific Corp.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Flexible spending

Health savings accounts

Life insurance

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Vice President of Category Management to lead the enterprise category sourcing and buying organization across energy, chemicals, packaging, media, and other strategic manufacturing inputs.

This leader will build organizational capability through multiple leadership layers, align category strategies with business and segment priorities, and strengthen how Georgia-Pacific manages contracts, suppliers, risk, and value across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a large, multi-level organization.
• Experience establishing enterprise-level strategies in complex environments.
• Experience evaluating market dynamics and risk-adjusted outcomes to inform decisions.
• Experience designing organizational processes and operating capabilities to improve performance.
• Experience leading significant transformation across governance and execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop 40+ employees through multiple leadership layers.
• Translate priorities into integrated category strategies and plans.
• Partner with leaders to define priorities and refresh plans as needed.
• Strengthen management of contracts as economic assets across the lifecycle.
• Establish decision frameworks for incentives, market structures, and value.
• Create a portfolio-management cadence to track economics and risks.
• Advance data, analytics, and AI capabilities to strengthen portfolio decisions.
• Redesign roles and governance for an AI-enabled operating environment.
• Clarify accountability by category strategy, contracts, and supplier performance.
• Establish measures focusing on value, risk, and sustainable results.
• Build supplier relationships ensuring performance and value protection.

Skills

Leadership

Category management

Strategic sourcing

Supply chain experience

Data analytics

AI / data capabilities

Job description

Your Job

Georgia-Pacific is seeking a Vice President of Category Management to lead the enterprise category sourcing and buying organization across energy, chemicals, packaging, media, and other strategic manufacturing inputs. This leader will build organizational capability through multiple leadership layers, align category strategies with business and segment priorities, and strengthen how Georgia-Pacific manages contracts, suppliers, risk, and value across the portfolio.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of Strategic Sourcing & Procurement. You will establish the leadership systems, decision frameworks, data capabilities, and operating discipline required to manage contract value and improve risk-adjusted outcomes in a complex, high-volume environment.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific's Strategic Sourcing & Procurement organization partners with business and segment leaders to support critical manufacturing and commercial priorities. The team is evolving its operating model to treat contracts as economic assets and use data, analytics, technology, and AI to improve decision quality, speed, and control.

What You Will Do

• Lead and develop 40+ employees through multiple leadership layers, applying Principle Based Management to clarify expectations, decision rights, and routines that build capability and deliver results.
• Translate business and segment priorities into integrated category strategies, operating plans, and measurable portfolio outcomes.
• Partners with business and segment leaders to jointly define priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and refresh plans as operating needs change.
• Strengthen the management of contracts as economic assets by creating visibility into commercial terms, obligations, supplier performance, and exposure across the contract lifecycle.
• Establish decision frameworks for evaluating incentives, tradeoffs, market structures, pricing mechanisms, optionality, and long-term risk-adjusted value.
• Create a disciplined portfolio-management cadence that identifies changing economics, emerging risks, unclaimed value, and decisions requiring escalation.
• Advance integrated data, systems, analytics, market intelligence, contract-management, and process-excellence capabilities that strengthen portfolio decisions.
• Redesign roles, workflows, and governance for an AI-enabled operating environment, determining where automation can improve quality, speed, and control and where human judgment remains essential.
• Clarify accountability and allocate work by comparative advantage across category strategy, contracts, and supplier performance.
• Establish measures that emphasize value, risk, decision quality, capability development, and sustainable results rather than activity alone.
• Build supplier relationships that reinforce productive, preferred partnerships while ensuring performance, accountability, and protection of contractual value.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading a large, multi-level organization through other leaders.
• Experience establishing and executing enterprise-level strategies in a complex commercial, sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, trading, finance, or operational environment, with accountability for measurable business outcomes.
• Experience evaluating market dynamics, incentives, uncertainty, tradeoffs, and risk-adjusted outcomes to make business decisions.
• Experience designing and implementing organizational processes, systems, or operating capabilities that improve business performance and decision quality across a complex organization.
• Experience leading significant transformation that changes how work is organized, governed, or executed.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience leading enterprise category management, strategic sourcing, procurement, trading, or commercial organization.
• Experience applying Principle Based Management and the Five Dimensions as a supervisor.
• Experience applying pricing mechanisms, contract economics, market structures, and optionality to evaluate commercial tradeoffs and risk-adjusted value.
• Experience managing portfolios exposed to market volatility, supply risk, changing demand, or other forms of uncertainty.
• Experience managing contracts as economic assets throughout the lifecycle, including identifying opportunities to preserve value, addressing changing conditions, and improve commercial outcomes.
• Experience applying data, analytics, technology, or AI to redesign work, automate appropriate activities, strengthen controls, and improve decision effectiveness.
• Experience leading category strategies involving energy, chemicals, packaging, media, or other strategic manufacturing inputs.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day -to make everyday products even better.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending
• health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).