Associate Category Manager

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace. 

You will lead category and operational management for assigned commodities. You will take direction from the Senior Category Manager and work to improve total cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Strong relationship skills are required to manage internal and external suppliers to accomplish the role goal.

• Primary relationship owner for suppliers within assigned commodities.

• Manage the segmentation of assign spend into subcommodity groups to create levers to achieve operational excellenc

• Maintain an overall commodity strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost o

• Take an ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the commodity strategy

• Build commodity strategy by supply base "right-sizing" and business awards with Long Ter

• Agreements (LTA) with year over year improvements in cost, delivery, quality, service, and profitabilit

• Review business analysis from PowerBI and other tools to create insights into the drivers of assign commodity and possible effects to spend projections to use as levers with our supply base

• Support regular business reviews (SRM) with important and strategic suppliers with teams and senior leadership

• Create presentations for supplier relationship management reviews, commodity strategies, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and supplier/commodity gap analysis.

• Support the plan to deliver annual results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Procurement Leadership

• Research, track, and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased overall productivity

• Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement

• BA/BS degree required (Preferably MBA or MS in any field of engineering)

• Minimum 4 years of procurement experience (preferably within industries with complex engineering, procurement, and construction projects, with a focus on procurement)

• Minimum 2 years of experience in negotiations including RFI, RFP, RFQ and contract development

• Well developed Negotiating, Benchmarking, Market Analysis, Competitive Intelligence, and Procurement Projects Management skills

• Experience with vendor management including purchase order issuance, execution, and administration

• Previous experience analyzing and drawing conclusions from quantitative data

• Ability to engage at all organizational levels and cultivate and sustain high quality professional relationships

• Strong problem-solving skills along with time-management, prioritizing, planning

• Competence maintain long term productive relationship with suppliers (SRM)

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, MS Access, Project, and Visio

• ERP system or similar system experience in a global environment is beneficial (SAP & Ariba)

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Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system: 

• Safety and Quality 
• Integrity and Trust 
• Customer Focus and Innovation 
• Speed and Passion to Win 
• Teamwork and Accountability 

Westinghouse offers great benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.  

Benefits offered in Poland include:

• Stable employment
• Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group
• Attractive remuneration with bonuses
• Hybrid model of work, flexible working time
• MyBenefit Cafeteria
• Life insurance
• Private Medical Care
• Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
• Charity initiatives
• Parking space for employees
• Employee referral program

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