Category Manager

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🌵 Arizona, California, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $85k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Guardian Industries - DeWitt

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- employees

🏭 Manufacturing

🏗️ Construction

Manufacturing • Construction

Guardian Industries - DeWitt is a facility or operating unit of Guardian Industries listed among Koch companies. Guardian Industries is a global manufacturer best known for producing glass and building-related products and operates multiple manufacturing sites; the DeWitt location is presented in Koch’s careers/company listings as one of the Guardian Industries locations offering roles in manufacturing, engineering, operations and related functions. As part of Koch’s portfolio, the site is positioned within a large industrial/manufacturing network and supports production, operations and career opportunities tied to Guardian’s glass and building products businesses.

📋 Description

• Own category strategies for Field Services materials, equipment, rentals, tooling, and services • Tailor sourcing roadmaps to repower demand, smaller quantities, and accelerated turnaround times • Lead competitive sourcing events, evaluations, negotiations, contracting activities, and purchase-order execution • Mobilize flexible purchasing support for urgent project and site requirements • Develop and maintain a responsive supplier network • Build supplier relationships supporting low-volume needs, rapid response, and issue resolution • Capture savings and cost avoidance through negotiation, consolidation, value engineering, and demand optimization • Optimize total value across cost, availability, quality, schedule, service, safety, and risk • Partner with project, technical, logistics, finance, and site teams to understand requirements and priorities • Secure materials, expedite critical orders, and remove supply chain barriers • Support acquisition, deployment, maintenance, rentals, repairs, and lifecycle management of equipment and tooling • Analyze pricing, supplier capacity, lead times, logistics constraints, and category trends • Anticipate supply-chain risks and implement mitigation strategies • Define commercial terms, scopes, service levels, warranties, and supplier accountabilities • Ensure compliance with company policies, approvals, contracts, safety requirements, and applicable laws • Report on spend, savings, supplier performance, responsiveness, and financial outcomes • Improve procurement processes, systems, procedures, and reporting • Serve as the strategic supply chain and category-management partner for Field Services and enterprise sourcing initiatives • Align stakeholders around business priorities and develop practical sourcing solutions

🎯 Requirements

• Experience in supply chain, procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, asset management, or commodity management • Experience using procurement, supply chain, asset, or commodity management systems • Demonstrated supplier negotiation, contracting, and relationship management experience • Ability to build trusted relationships, uncover operational needs, and translate them into effective sourcing solutions • Experience analyzing and improving sourcing processes, category performance, procedures, or scopes of work • Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond quickly in a fast-paced, highly visible environment • Visa sponsorship is not available • Post-secondary degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field (listed as an advantage)

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form • Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible spending and health savings accounts • Life insurance • ADD • Disability coverage • Retirement benefits • Paid vacation/time off • Educational assistance • May include infertility assistance • May include paid parental leave • May include adoption assistance • Flexible work environment • Remote work eligibility within the United States