Emea Category Lead Bardi

Emea Category Lead
Bardi
Emilia Romagna, Bardi

The Procurement Category Lead is responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive category strategy and plan for our EMEA Racking commodity area, which in turn enables profitable and scalable business growth.

With the ability to understand the overt and latent needs of internal customers; the Category lead will collaborate with other sub-functions within Procurement but also with cross-functional team members in Project Management, Engineering, Solutions Development, Finance, Quality and others.

The Category Lead must have full knowledge of the supplier market in terms of its characteristics, dynamics, and drivers.

Those with extensive market knowledge of steel or similar metallic commodities would be able to utilise their experience to cultivate maximum value for Dematic.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Pre-negotiate competitive pricing agreements and models to ensure speed-to-market front-end execution

- Develop robust cost savings funnel and project management initiatives until successful implementation

- Ensure actual pricing is consistent with master supply agreements and price models

- Actively pursue internal "voice-of-customer" and ensure perspectives are addressed in category approaches

- Ensure a competitive supplier panel (including sole/single source mitigation) is developed to support high business growth rates

- Monitor supplier financial risk and take business-protecting proactive actions

- Conduct supplier business reviews with forward-leaning agendas: technology, collaboration, and overall competitiveness

**Primary Key Performance Indicators**:

Total Cost of Ownership savings, cash generation, margin improvement, and supplier operational performance (on-quality, on-time delivery).

The Category Lead is responsible to ensure best practices in risk mitigation and contract adherence are followed in a compliant manner.

**Qualifications & Experience**:

- Ideally educated to a degree level in business, engineering or a related discipline.

- Extensive procurement experience with an emphasis on strategic sourcing, preferably in Category Management.

- Demonstratable experience in delivering for a project-based business.

- Excellent communication and presentation skills

- Strong quantitative, cost modelling, and data analysis skills

- Enjoys operating autonomously and thrives at the opportunity to independently develop category strategies.

- Fluency in English is essential, other languages are an asset.

- Able to be effective in a matrixed environment

- Travel as required - Estimated to be 30%-40%

Ability to commute/relocate:

- BANBURY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Category Management: 1 year (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in 23870 Cernusco Lombardone, LC

Reference ID: JR-0035671