Emea Category Manager Pa, Services GENOVA

Emea Category Manager Pa, Services
Genova
Liguria, GENOVA

EMEA Category Manager PA, Services**:

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**This position reports to**:

Procurement & Logistics Business Partner

**Your responsibilities**:

- Working in close collaboration with the production sites on the continuous improvement of our Integrated Supply Chain Solutions program and the related RACI/business process to translate them into clear, practical guidance for key Procurement and functional colleagues in the EL sites.

- Understanding business priorities and challenges and ensuring successful realization of the Category Strategy by building strong partnerships across geographically dispersed stakeholders and engaging with local Procurement.

Also being able to act with diverse cultural backgrounds.

- Working closely with HSE to ensure our employees in the sites have high level quality supply and best service when it comes product and services such as nurse services in terms of COVID-19.

- Ensuring a robust approach to supplier management, establishing value creation targets and reporting of supplier performance, developing innovation programs, managing supplier risks and conducting regular business reviews.

- Proactively driving/supporting demand management to reduce our overall external spend with third parties and create a true EBITDA impact - e. g.

the implementation of vending machines or implementation of modern tool crib design.

- Support the roll out of catalogues and to ensure a high level of hands-free ordering and a reduction of tactical sourcing to the minimum in the countries using SAP Ariba or alternative ERP solutions.

- Ensuring full control on supplier and material master data to allow for sourcing automation and running RfQs/eAuctions in SAP Ariba.

**Your background**:

- University degree, with business or engineering degree preferable

- 10+ years of in-depth strategic and/or operational procurement experience or equivalent extensive experience working in the category for which the role is intended to support.

- Excellent communication and project management skills with an ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams and deliver complex strategic initiatives, in a truly global, fluid, interactive environment

- Proven financial and business acumen and capability in negotiation, change management and stakeholder management

- Business level fluency in English

- Strong result-orientation

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