Category Manager-IT & Corp Services

At Greene, Tweed, you'll find the cutting-edge technology, world-class polymer expertise and endless advancement opportunities you'd expect from a multi-national industry leader. You'll find them all in an environment that embraces diversity in people and opinions, moves decision making to the point of impact, and celebrates your success.

If you enjoy continuous learning and are excited about working with and creating technological solutions, explore career opportunities with Greene, Tweed.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:  

• Builds and maintains profiles of supply market and key suppliers (including both current and potential suppliers)
• Establishes and communicates the vision and strategic direction for assigned categories
• Develops and executes appropriate market sector strategies aligning the market to Greene Tweed’s internal demand, and ensuring approval/support from the organization
• Utilizes strategic sourcing within area of responsibility
• Employs financial analysis and economic modeling skills to evaluate supplier proposal pricing and develop flexible contractual pricing models which accommodate inflation, currency, scope changes, and other areas of risk mitigation and cost control
• Provides on-going contract cost management and risk management
• Champions and supports the deployment of the appropriate purchase to pay solutions
• Develops and implements supplier performance management strategies and measurement criteria for their market sector
• Advise in the development and direction of category sourcing plans and cross business teams directly connected with key stakeholders (budget and P&L owners). The needs are derived from close connection and understanding of their business strategies with impacts of spend
• Provide leadership to drive continuous improvement in spend management processes and implemented tactics to drive compliance across the company
• Continually develop strong relationships with internal business partners across the company and stay connected with their individual business strategies and needs
• Develop, execute and manage supplier contracts and agreements
• Execute the defined strategic sourcing process and drive utilization of tools and techniques aligned with the process framework and architecture
• Manages supplier relationships
• Work effectively across business units with different objectives in the creation and implementation of procurement strategies for complex spend categories

Required Minimum Qualifications

Education/Certifications:  Bachelor’s degree, preferably in supply chain, marketing, or engineering

Skills and Experience: 

• 7+ years demonstrated progressive Supply Chain experience in Category Management
• Demonstrated skills in working effectively across business or functional lines and partnering with the businesses and departments to meet objectives
• Demonstrated ability to influence others
• Strong negotiations, interpersonal and communications skills
• Professional, ethical personal conduct and demeanor
• Experience conducting business and negotiating
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex pricing proposals and formulate a strategic plan
• Proven ability to work in a matrix, leading or participation on teams across reporting lines, for example segment teams, pricing teams, product launch teams
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Experience as a leader/manager of a team

Job Environment:

Physical Requirements:         

            Standing                                   Occasionally (16-45%)

            Sitting                                      Frequently (46-100%)

            Lifting                                      Up to 10lbs without assistance

            Carrying                                   Up to 10lbs without assistance

            Walking                                   Frequently (46-100%)

            Hearing                                     Ability to detect noises with or without corrective device(s)

            Vision                                      Clarity of vision, with or without corrective lenses

Mental Requirements:           

            Problem Solving                       Frequently (46-100%)

            Making Decisions                     Ability to make decisions that have a significant impact

            Supervise                                 Frequently (46-100%)

            Interpret Data                           Frequently (46-100%)

            Organize                                  Frequently (46-100%)

            Read/Write                               Frequently (46-100%)

            Communication                        Frequently (46-100%)

Work Environment

            High Temperatures                   Rarely (0-15%)

            Low Temperatures                    Rarely (0-15%)

            Noises                                      Moderate (business office with computers, printers and light office noises)

            Fumes Exposure                       Rarely (0-15%)

Note:  This Job Description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.  Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by the Supervisor.  All requirements are subject to change and updates.

We also provide eligible employees with a competitive benefits package that includes health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, 401k savings plan, life and disability insurance, tuition assistance and more, to meet the diverse needs of all employees and their family members.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Greene, Tweed is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other federally protected class.

Drug Free Workplace:

Greene, Tweed is a Drug Free Workplace.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation subject to federal, state, and local laws.

NOTE: Greene, Tweed is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for employment opportunities, unless they have a written agreement for the position they are contacting us about. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at GT without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of Greene, Tweed, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Greene, Tweed as a result of the referral or through other means.