Littelfuse
10,000+ employees
Founded 1927
🔧 Hardware
⚡ Energy
Hardware • Energy • Automotive
Littelfuse is a diversified industrial technology manufacturing company that focuses on empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. It offers innovative products to enhance the safety and efficiency of rechargeable lithium batteries in various applications, including smartphones, power tools, electric vehicles, and renewable energy systems such as wind and solar farms. Littelfuse provides advanced solutions for electrification and battery operation of off-highway vehicles and specializes in battery temperature monitoring devices for EVs. Recognized for its positive impact on environmental, social, and ethical standards, Littelfuse is also a leader in arc-flash protection and offers products like metal oxide varistors, silicon carbide MOSFETs, and battery fuses, serving markets such as automotive, industrial, and alternative energy systems.
Category Manager
🕒 May 7
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Littelfuse
10,000+ employees
Founded 1927
🔧 Hardware
⚡ Energy
Hardware • Energy • Automotive
Littelfuse is a diversified industrial technology manufacturing company that focuses on empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. It offers innovative products to enhance the safety and efficiency of rechargeable lithium batteries in various applications, including smartphones, power tools, electric vehicles, and renewable energy systems such as wind and solar farms. Littelfuse provides advanced solutions for electrification and battery operation of off-highway vehicles and specializes in battery temperature monitoring devices for EVs. Recognized for its positive impact on environmental, social, and ethical standards, Littelfuse is also a leader in arc-flash protection and offers products like metal oxide varistors, silicon carbide MOSFETs, and battery fuses, serving markets such as automotive, industrial, and alternative energy systems.
📋 Description
• Manage category strategy and work with cross-functional team to implement strategy on different product lines • Consolidate and renationalize our global supplier base • Transfer more spend/allocation to strategic suppliers • Manage suppliers in cost, quality, delivery and service to ensure competitiveness of Littelfuse • Regular business review with strategic suppliers • Develop and execute annual cost reduction plan to achieve annual cost reduction targets • Collaborate with other Category managers on the other regions and support and/or lead negotiations • Monitor industry trends, rules, performance, market conditions; collection of market, competitors’ status
🎯 Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in procurement, especially focused on category management • 10+ years experience with manufactured products (industrial end markets experience preferred) • Experienced developing strong, mutually beneficial relationships with key stakeholders • Ability to analyze and interpret multiple sets of data and work out concise, insightful analysis • Skilled in sourcing process, contracting and negotiation • Experience setting category strategy and applying strategy setting models such as Porters 5 forces, SWOT analysis, AT Kearney Chessboard, etc. • Ability to interact and engage with peers with good communication skills • Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
🏖️ Benefits
• Competitive compensation and benefits • Performance-based incentives • Flexible work arrangements • Development opportunities
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