Senior Global Category Manager

🕒 August 10

🇮🇳 India – 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 • Leverage pooling opportunities and synergies across Hillenbrand operating companies and sites • Model the optimum supply base based on market trends, demand requirements, and business objectives • Define supply base preferences, sourcing governance, supplier targets, and sourcing footprint design • Create category intelligence covering market trends, technologies, benchmarks, cost drivers, and value drivers • Assess supply base capabilities and performance against benchmarks and requirements • Classify suppliers and define supplier development targets • Define the category playbook for Project GSM and Supplier Account Managers • Plan and align financial, operational, and business targets; define funnel measures and execution plans • Develop alternative sourcing projects and business cases to optimize the supply base and increase shiftability • Lead sourcing project execution using Advanced Negotiation Concepts • Review and approve supplier-related targets and funnel measures • Define and drive elevated Key Supplier objectives and support critical supplier meetings • Initiate and plan cost mastering and supplier development project funnels • Manage master purchase agreements and amendments covering logistics, quality, and sustainability • Monitor and drive execution of category-related funnel measures to achieve defined targets • Apply financially and ethically sound methods aligned with the Hillenbrand Operating Model

🎯 Requirements

• More than 10 years’ experience in Strategic Procurement • Several years’ experience in global sourcing across European, Asian, and North American markets • Several years’ successful experience in global Project and Program Management • Experience leading interdisciplinary cross-functional teams • Global sourcing experience and advanced intercultural sensitivity and teamwork • Advanced negotiation skills • Solid understanding of game-theoretical awarding events and e-auctions • Advanced analytical and conceptual skills • Ability to drive results and 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 skills • Proficient Business English • Understanding and implementation of Hillenbrand Core Values and Operating Model (HOM) • Minimum bachelor degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent • Separate expert-level certifications in Lean/Six Sigma, Design to Cost, and Project Management methodologies desired

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) policy • Reasonable accommodation support for applicants with disabilities