VP Category Management

Georgia-Pacific LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Georgia-Pacific LLC in the United States seeks a Vice President of Category Management to lead the enterprise category sourcing and buying organization across energy, chemicals, packaging, media, and other strategic inputs. You will build leadership layers, align category strategies with business priorities, and strengthen contract, supplier, and risk management across the portfolio.

This role shapes the strategic Sourcing & Procurement function by establishing leadership systems, data

Qualifications

• Experience leading a large, multi-level organization through other leaders.
• Experience establishing and executing enterprise-level strategies in a complex environment.
• Experience evaluating market dynamics, incentives, uncertainty, and risk-adjusted outcomes.
• Experience designing processes and operating capabilities that improve business performance.
• Experience leading significant transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop 40+ employees through multiple leadership layers.
• Translate priorities into integrated category strategies and plans.
• Strengthen management of contracts as economic assets with visibility into terms and supplier performance.
• Establish decision frameworks for incentives, market structures, and risk-adjusted value.
• Advance data, analytics, and AI capabilities to improve portfolio decisions.
• Redesign roles and governance for an AI-enabled operating environment.
• Build supplier relationships and ensure performance and value protection.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Sourcing

Contract Management

Data Analytics

AI Awareness

Portfolio Management

Job description

Vice President of Category Management

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.

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. Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and 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.