Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse's mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace. This Senior Category Manager, Services is responsible for leading a complex category to improve cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. The role will be required to lead and grow a category management plan for an assigned category. The individual will take direction from the GSCS Manager or GSCS Senior Manager. Strong relationship skills are required to establish and implement strategies that have mid-term impact on business results in alignment with organizational needs, project timelines. Develops and implements new products, processes, standards or operational plans that will have impact on the achievement of functional results. Your Day to Day:

• Responsible for leading and growing a category management plan for an assigned category. Utilizing levers to achieve operational excellence.
• Maintains an overall category strategy to meet organizational goals by improving Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while securing supply continuity through identifying and mitigating current and potential risks and opportunities in the category playbook.
• Ensures the execution category strategy through preferred supplier list (PSL), "right-sizing" non-preferred suppliers, and rewarding preferred partners with business awards tied to Long Term Agreements (LTA) with year over year improvements in cost, delivery, quality, service, and profitability.
• Leads key business reviews (SRM) with strategic suppliers to drive category strategy and attainment of category goals.
• Prepared presentations for supplier relationship management meetings, category playbooks, risk mitigation proposals, 4-Blockers, and supplier/category gap analysis.
• Responsible for creating and executing a plan to deliver annual business results against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, and other metrics as determined by Leadership.
• Maintains extensive category knowledge by researching and tracking industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased overall productivity.
• Develop a productive working relationship with cross functional groups: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement

Who You Are:

• BA/BS degree; (Preferably MBA)
• 13+ years of experience procurement
• 10 years of negotiating contracts
• High Level of Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint. Ideal Candidate will have proficiency in MS Access, Project, and Visio

Why Westinghouse?Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry's first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions.

• Stable employment in newly created 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

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