Category Specialist
This position is responsible for performing key activities to assure supply continuity across specific commodities. This position takes direction from the Director of Category Management and works cross-functionally to deliver cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Support for monitoring active projects, updating status, eliminating roadblocks, and escalating issues as appropriate.
Reponsibilities:
- Conducts business analysis of spend from PowerBI and other tools. Provides insights into the drivers of spend history and implications to future spend projections using SIOP plan.
- Tracks business performance against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, price variance, commodity changes, and other business critical metrics to share with Procurement Leadership.
- Supports Procurement Program Managers (PPM), Commodity Managers (CM), and Senior Procurement Leaders in development of various program presentations including supplier relationship management, transformation progress, QBRs, Deep Dives, weekly High/Low lights reviews, and preferred supplier analysis.
- Day to day support across PPM and CM teams solving business issues and analysis, as needed.
- Lead MDI (manage for daily improvement) activities to drive continuous improvement with Procurement Teams
- Perform competitive analysis with RFI, RFP, and RFQ development including assess results, document recommendations, and assist in communication of results to vendors and internal stakeholders
- Works closely with Senior Leadership to develop analytic tools to support Category Strategy, Category Leadership, and Procurement initiatives.
- Research, track and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased productivity
- Track receipts and payment price of certain commodities regularly to ensure critical supplier invoices are paid on time. Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree required
- 1 year of experience in procurement field
- Proficient with Excel and PowerPoint; PowerBI, MS Access, Project, and Visio experience a plus
- Experience with SAP software a plus, but not required
- Advanced level of English Proficiency, any additional language proficiency is a plus
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- Quantitative Analysis: skillful in using quantitative analysis to understand business issues.
- Influence: can influence and persuade other people, even without direct authority.
- Recognition of Opportunity: recognizes new opportunities and acts to take advantage of them.
- Assertiveness: able to defend a point of view and to confront others appropriately when necessary; unafraid to take controversial positions and challenge the conventional wisdom or status quo.
- Creative Thinking: able to think creatively, generating new ideas and approaches to situations.
- Written Communication: a good writer; expresses ideas and positions clearly.
- Cross Cultural: Able to interact effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds.
- Technical Expertise: extensive knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Multi-Tasker: Ability to prioritize multiple stakeholders and competing priorities to meet critical business needs in timely manner
Offer:
- Stable employment in SSC in Kraków
- Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group
- Attractive remuneration with bonuses
- Hybrid model of work, flexible working time
- Benefit package with Multisport card
- Life insurance
- Private Medical Care
- Charity initiatives
- Parking space for employees
- Employee referral program