Category Manager: Manufacturing, Logistics, and Facilities

port category planning, cost savings, efficiency, and value delivery.

• Conducting market intelligence and risk analysis to assess and understand dynamic industry trends, supplier capabilities, and category risks.

• Supporting development and execution of category strategies, buy-channel coordination, and category playbooks.

• Supporting strategic sourcing activities, including RFPs, RFx and auctions, spot buying, and price quote management.

• Supporting end - to - end contract management, including drafting, negotiation, execution, renewals, compliance, and business partner coordination.

• Handling preferred supplier lists and support supplier segmentation, qualification, onboarding, performance evaluation, and issue resolution.

• Ensuring compliance with category policies, procedures, and contracts, and supporting operational, performance, and compliance reporting.

• Partnering with the Managed Service Provider (MSP) teams to support category operations, outsourcing enablement, catalog management, and value creation.

We want you to have:

• Bachelor's degree

• 7+ years of experience in direct and indirect materials procurement, with relevant exposure to Manufacturing, Logistics, and/or Facilities environments.

• Knowledge of sourcing, category management, and procurement planning principles, including support of long - term category strategies.

• Demonstrated negotiation skills supporting strategic procurement activities and business value delivery.

• Experience working in complex procurement environments and supporting enterprise - level category management initiatives.

• Ability to support dynamic portfolio management and help assess the impact of category management on overall business outcomes.

• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, adaptability, and proficiency with procurement systems and tools.

• Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with business stakeholders, suppliers and category leadership.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills in the required language; experience with Ariba, SAP, and/or ServiceNow preferred.