European Category Manager
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As a European Category Manager, you will be accountable for the Procurement and Category Management of European Customer Engineering Spend, aligning supplier capability with the business needs at best value. Leading commercial and contractual engagements with suppliers. Developing and project managing regional category strategies and aligning global, regional, and local procurement initiatives. You will be accountable for driving Simplicity & Sustainability in Procurement across the European Customer Engineering business.
As a European Category Manager, you will:
- Lead the process to develop, negotiate, implement, and sustain customer engineering supply strategies consistent with business objectives.
- Lead the regional category strategy development process for a specific category group.
- Inform and support the deployment of enterprise strategies as they apply to supplier management, or relevant supplier partners.
- Lead standardization across the region, consistent with regional/global practices, related to execution of global supply agreements, procurement process simplification, and development of best practices to achieve operational excellence by keeping focus on the Air Products 4Ss: Safety, Speed, Simplicity, and Self-Confidence.
- Identify, develop, and manage suppliers, understand macro-economic impacts to our suppliers and the industries in which we do business.
- Build strong and lasting relationships with key supplier partners.
- Identify low-cost supply sources, develop non-traditional sources, and promote supplier innovation to drive productivity to the client.
- Build sustainable relationships with the Air Products supply base ensuring safety, ethical trading, and reliability.
- Contribute directly to Air Products profitability targets by maximizing opportunities to reduce spend for the European IG/Customer Engineering organization.
- Maintain current benchmarks for market conditions to better understand pricing trends, market knowledge, demand/capacity constraints, and financial stability of category suppliers.
What we are looking for:
- BA in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or other suitable discipline.
- CIPS qualification or equivalent beneficial.
- Direct and MRO procurement experience essential.
- Understanding of sourcing strategies.
- Knowledge of SAP, eSourcing tools and analytical skills required.
- Experience of Sourcing, Engineering, Sales and Marketing or suitable discipline.
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