Strategic Category Manager

hace 6 días


Ciudad Apodaca, Nuevo León, México Danfoss A tiempo completo
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and self-driven Category Manager to join our North American Team at Danfoss Climate Solutions. As a key member of our procurement team, you will play a crucial role in supporting the company's growth journey by providing strategic procurement business insights to our matrix procurement colleagues and businesses.

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and results-driven individual who is eager to set new directions, create strategies, and develop relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement Global Category Strategies for Mechanical Categories and Raw Materials
  • Manage a selected and small number of high spend suppliers with high attention from Danfoss top management
  • Lead negotiations with nominated suppliers
  • Coordinate strategical activities globally of defined suppliers
  • Accelerate cost-down impact from suppliers driving and executing a sustainable savings pipeline across all levers while utilizing cross-functional teams
  • Develop and implement supplier strategy for all suppliers within responsibility
  • Actively research trends within technology, including how other industries impact the sub-category
  • Take full and proactive responsibility for supplier performance
  • Lead an effective supplier relationship management acting as the Danfoss key account and supplier development activities
  • Understand Danfoss business needs and the commodity market impacts
Requirements
  • 5+ years of category management experience in Mechanical Categories with a strong commercial understanding
  • Solid direct category management experience from an international company, ideally managing high spend suppliers
  • Bachelor's degree with a Business or an Engineering focus, Master's degree preferred
  • Ability to conduct RFQs with existing and potential suppliers
  • Business talent and a personal drive, combined with a strong appetite for keeping momentum on strategic development of your categories
  • Proven track record of adding value with the ability to navigate safely in complex relations, while working both independently and within cross-functional teams
About Danfoss

Danfoss is a leading engineering company that engineers solutions that increase machine productivity, reduce emissions, lower energy consumption, and enable electrification. We are committed to protecting the environment and have set ambitious targets to become CO2 neutral by 2030.

We are an EO employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or other protected category.


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