CATEGORY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

Key Responsibilities-

• Analyse, understand and interpret market dynamics and drivers, supplier constraints, quantity
• Support negotiations with suppliers and cost model implementation across their portfolio and lead efforts for their assigned suppliers
• Support the development and execution of category strategy
• Escalates issues timely to supervisor/team management
• Demonstrates strong knowledge in analytics, tools/techniques and applies them regularly when given opportunities
• Manages sophisticated financial analysis and business cases independently
• Identifies data integrity issues, root causes, and suggested resolution plans
• Ensures that all relevant contractual documentation is handled as per the defined Contract Management Process
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Science, Engineering, supply chain management, Business Administration or related.
• 1 to 3 years of procurement, operations, or supply chain experience with demonstrated success of managing projects
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to drive change in a decentralized organization with minimum supervision
• Experience in quantitative analysis using Microsoft Excel/Access (beyond basic data entry)
• Strong analytical thinking with demonstrated results
• Strong oral and written communication skills with ability to present ideas in business-friendly language
• The candidate must be fluent, both written and speaking, in English