Senior Global Category Manager

🔥 15 hours ago

🇫🇷 France – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Hillenbrand

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5001 - 10000 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Consulting • Logistics

Hillenbrand is a global provider of highly engineered, mission-critical processing equipment and systems, serving a diverse range of industries including durable plastics, food, and recycling. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, Hillenbrand focuses on shaping solutions that impact lives and drive growth in a continually changing world. The company emphasizes excellence and continuous improvement, ensuring their products not only meet present-day needs but also anticipate future demands.

📋 Description

• Own category-related targets, strategy, and program development for the global spend and supply base in scope • Leverage pooling opportunities and synergies across Hillenbrand operating companies and sites • Model the optimum supply base according to market trends, demand requirements, and business objectives • Define supply base preferences, sourcing governance, supplier targets, and category playbooks • Maximize supply base agility and competition through Supply Market Making and Alternative Sourcing Programs • Define supply base and sourcing footprint design across Hillenbrand operating companies • Drive category-related funnel measures and execution plans to achieve defined targets • Create category intelligence covering market trends, technologies, benchmarks, cost, and value drivers • Assess supplier capabilities and performance against market benchmarks and demand requirements • Classify suppliers and define supplier development targets • Plan and align financial, operational, and business targets • Develop alternative sourcing projects to optimize the supply base and increase shiftability • Build business cases and secure stakeholder commitment • Lead sourcing project execution using Advanced Negotiation Concepts • Drive and monitor supplier account management impact • Review and approve supplier targets and funnel measures • Define and drive elevated Key Supplier objectives and support critical supplier meetings • Initiate cost-mastering and supplier-development project funnels • Manage master purchase agreements and amendments, including logistics, quality, and sustainability • Monitor and drive execution of category-related funnel measures

🎯 Requirements

• More than 10 years’ experience in Strategic Procurement • Several years’ experience in global sourcing in European, Asian and North American markets • Several years’ successful experience in global Project and Program Management and leading interdisciplinary cross-functional teams • Global sourcing experience and advanced intercultural sensitivity and teamwork • Advanced negotiation skills and solid understanding of game theoretical awarding events and e-auctions • Advanced analytical and conceptual skills, ability to drive results, and ability to use relevant IT tools such as PowerBI • Advanced knowledge of Source-2-Contract processes and Supplier Contract Management • Commodity market expertise • Total Cost of Ownership business case calculation, including make-versus-buy • Clean-sheet/should-costing methodology • GSM processes and governance • Supply base risk management • Project management • Proficient Business English skills • Understanding and implementation of Core Values and the Hillenbrand Operating Model (HOM) • Minimum bachelor degree in a relevant technical discipline, Business, or Supply Chain • Preferred master degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent • Desired expert-level certifications in Lean/Six Sigma, Design to Cost, and Project Management methodologies

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity • Reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities