Regional Category Manager – Indirects at Puma Energy

Main Purpose:

The category manager has responsibility for the sourcing, procurement and commercial performance of suppliers of the category generating added value and cost savings regionally.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Understanding Business Requirements

• Develop great working relationships with internal stakeholders across category portfolio
• Ensure all business requirements are considered in line with set company policies and procedures as well relevant legislation
• Take a short, medium and long term view on business requirements

Spend Analysis

• Utilizes spend data to determine opportunities and priorities across all business units, categories and sub-categories
• Provides rigorous analysis of spend data and ensures that spend is effectively tracked and managed on a regular basis

Market Analysis

• Supplier and category segmentation
• Evaluate market summary data to make effective sourcing decisions
• Develop and implement a strategy to manage and mitigate the supply chain risk associated with suppliers in the category
• Lead and contribute towards the development of TCO models for key categories jointly with the Cross Functional Sourcing Team (CFST) and project managers were relevant.
• Conduct supplier risk assessment

Planning

• Develop sourcing or category strategies to support business requirements
• Identifies risks to supply and mitigates them where necessary
• Establishes robust prioritization of workload based on where most value can be added, balancing short term stakeholder requirements with medium to long term value adding actions

Category Management

• Lead the business through the 7-step process
• Deploying strategic analytical tools to identify insights
• Present options to the suppliers
• Works cross functionally and involves support functions relevant throughout the process
• Formulate negotiation strategy and lead process
• Prepare bid adjudication analysis and recommendation for approval as per Delegation of Authority
• End to end management and reporting on the performance of the category

Contract Management

• Negotiate and manage high value, critical and strategic commodity and service contracts - including amendments, price adjustments, verifying price increases and general contract administration.
• Integrate Business Unit contracts into framework agreements.

Ensuring the effectiveness of the Contracts by:

• Communicating negotiated contracts to affected stakeholders.
• Benchmarking both pricing and commodity performance of strategic commodities against industry peers
• Increasing company-wide contract expenditure
• Reviewing supplier performance and contractual compliance regularly

Supplier Relationships 

• Managing strategic supplier relationships
• Represents Puma in relationships with suppliers
• Has the skills and experience to develop suppliers

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree ideally with a further qualification in Procurement / Supply chain / Business
• Extensive industry experience
• Demonstrate working successfully across countries
• Able to demonstrate agility and efficiency in execution

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Quality management – ability to set standards, processes, services and systems.
• Relationship building skills.
• The ability to act autonomously and deliver in different circumstances, clients, industries is critical.
• Propensity to learn new commodities and industries is critical.
• Attention to detail and analytical ability is required.
• Sound commercial knowledge.
• Business acumen.
• Good communication and negotiation skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Power Point and Excel.
• Confident and proactive self-starter – go getter!
• Customer-focused and service-oriented.