What will you do?
· The Associate Category Manager supports the category strategy definition for North America Region, lead its execution for the assigned commodities, support all manufacturing locations, support solving the business needs and challenges, and manage performance for key suppliers assigned. This position facilitates the interactions between the manufacturing plants, the clusters, cross-functional stakeholders, and Procurement to maintain and develop a panel of Best in Class suppliers meeting current requirements, future business needs, technological evolutions, and achieve annual targets in terms of productivity, quality, delivery, supply base optimization.
· Responsible to ensure the best Quality, Cost and Delivery Conditions to supply Labels, Packaging and Fasteners.
· The assigned categories will be a subgroup from the following categories\: semiconductors, passive components, connectors, PCBs, Fuses, Relays, Windings, Batteries.
· Develop and execute commodity strategies for the Electronic Categories.
· Continuously enhance expertise in the category and the local and global market trends to become a referent in the matter.
· Supplier Leader\: own the commercial relationship and performance for assigned suppliers, conduct regular Business Reviews, lead annual negotiation, serve as the point of contact for problem escalation, drive sustainable development among the supply base.
· Finds opportunities and creates a pipeline in the category supporting QVE, Change of Supplier, and Supply Base Optimization goals.
· Work and collaborate with cross functional teams in the region supporting different Procurement Initiatives (audits, tools, processes, etc).
· Pursue systematic TCO reductions and value enhancements to drive cost savings and performance improvement.
· Track KPI's and deliver reports.
· Execute comprehensive RFQ process and support functional users in a timely manner.
· Identify and develop strategic supply sources.
· Sourcing, standardization, spend control and innovation with suppliers.