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Job Description
About this role:
This role is a member of the PDT Procurement team, responsible for developing and executing strategy for an assigned global category. It uses market, supplier, and spend insights to shape sourcing and demand, manage supplier relationships and category contracts, and deliver measurable value while balancing business performance, quality, risk, and sustainability. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, the role turns category priorities into practical initiatives and results.
How you will contribute:
Develop and execute category strategies that maximize enterprise value from external spend while balancing financial performance, innovation, risk, sustainability, and business outcomes
Act as a strategic business partner, influencing how external spend is deployed to support organizational priorities, growth objectives, and operational excellence
Leverage market intelligence, supplier insights, digital capabilities, and data-driven decision making to identify opportunities and accelerate value creation
Lead cross-functional collaboration to translate category strategies into measurable business results, ensuring effective stakeholder alignment and execution
Accountabilities:
Develop, implement, and continuously evolve category strategies aligned with enterprise priorities, business objectives, and long-term value creation goals
Leverage market intelligence, spend analytics, supplier insights, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities, shape demand, and inform category decision-making
Own the category pipeline and deliver measurable outcomes across cost optimization, supplier innovation, risk management, sustainability, and business performance
Partner with stakeholders to influence requirements, specifications, service models, and sourcing decisions that maximize enterprise value
Lead cross-functional collaboration to translate category strategies into executable initiatives and measurable business results
Lead and manage cross-functional category initiatives and projects, ensuring delivery of measurable business results against defined objectives and timelines
Design and manage supplier ecosystems that balance competitiveness, innovation, resilience, performance, and long-term business needs
Establish and oversee supplier governance, segmentation, and relationship management strategies to drive performance, value realization, and continuous improvement
Accountable for delivering the category's value-delivery targets and KPIs, spanning the enterprise value framework of P&L impact, P&L protection, and cash improvement, plus value beyond savings (risk, business performance, innovation, sustainability).
Build and maintain a high-performing supplier ecosystem that balances innovation, competitiveness, resilience, and long-term business needs, while including Quality and Sustainability requirements.
Drive end-to-end Master Service Agreement (MSA) contract management for the category, establishing the commercial frameworks (pricing, catalogue terms, discounts) that downstream Service Agreements, SOWs, and purchase orders draw against.
Accountable for end-to-end management of all categories spend, including active tail-spend management (analysis, classification, and control/buying approaches) and mapping categories to compliant, preferred buying channels to maximize coverage, adoption, and value capture.
Integrate risk management, business continuity, responsible sourcing, and sustainability considerations into category and supplier strategies
Ensure compliance with procurement policies, contractual obligations, regulatory requirements,…