Cornerstone Building Brands
10,000+ employees
Cornerstone Building Brands is the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America. Our comprehensive portfolio spans the breadth of the residential and commercial markets, while our expansive footprint enables us to serve customers and communities across North America.
Senior Strategic Sourcing Category Manager
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🌲 North Carolina – Remote
đź’µ $130k - $150k / year
⏰ Full Time
đźź Senior
đź›’ Procurement
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Cornerstone Building Brands
10,000+ employees
Cornerstone Building Brands is the largest manufacturer of exterior building products in North America. Our comprehensive portfolio spans the breadth of the residential and commercial markets, while our expansive footprint enables us to serve customers and communities across North America.
đź“‹ Description
• Lead creation and implementation of advanced category management strategies for assigned categories of spend, manage the development of RFx materials, detailed analysis of proposals and vendor capabilities, negotiations and supplier selection. • Given its leadership role, this position will also perform player/coach for category specialists and category managers to produce the same results for their respective areas • Strategically partner with team members, business unit and functional leaders by providing subject matter expertise and best practice for sourcing opportunities. • Build and manage relationships with business unit teams, to enable implementation of business strategies through team alignment, facilitate a sourcing process to coordinate those goals, and closely collaborate with teams to negotiate, contract, and award business to suppliers. • Demonstrates a strategic business mindset, influential leadership, organizational savvy, presents an executive-level presence, and balances multiple stakeholder interests simultaneously. • Develop advanced multi-year category strategies designed to anticipate enterprise-wide requirements while optimizing forecasted shifts in both supply markets, industry trends and supplier economic cycles. • Lead the development and negotiation of contracts with new suppliers and/or renegotiate existing contracts to accomplish lowest total system cost and savings objectives. • Deliver ongoing value improvements while driving competitive advantage. • Conduct category spend analyses and reporting, supplier stratification, supply market and category industry research as well as coach category specialists and category managers to produce the same results for their respective areas. • Execute savings tracking activities and report realized savings on a continuous basis. • Develop savings pipeline to drive long term value generation in line with category strategy. • Monitor supplier performance and conduct supplier reviews in accordance with supplier performance program. • Engage in ethical procurement practices with includes compliance with corporate and departmental policies and procedures as well and federal, state and local regulations • Display leadership behaviors aligned with CBB values and success model to drive a culture that embodies safety, teamwork, innovation and integrity.
🎯 Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree strongly preferred. Preference in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or equivalent work experience. • MBA a plus • 10+ years of supply chain experience required, 8 of which requires experience in strategic sourcing or category management • Experience with category management in Glass and/ or PVC Extrusions preferred. • Proven execution of core sourcing skills (negotiation, contracting) and ability to implement sourcing best practices • Superior communication, presentation, and analytical skills • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to prioritize multiple projects. • Requires expertise in operating Microsoft Office programs. • Requires the ability to lead a team and present and project a positive company image with vendors. • Certifications preferred but not required: CPSM, PMP, Lean, and Six Sigma. • Position requires light travel (15-25%)
🏖️ Benefits
• medical, dental and vision benefits starting day 1 • 401k • PTO • paid holidays • FSA • life insurance • LTD • STD • EAP • discount programs • tuition reimbursement • training • professional development
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