Group Category Manager Puteaux - la Défense Fr 98200 H/F Nexans

From the most remote wind farms to economic hubs, from the depths of the ocean to the heart of local communities, from the most complex technologies, Nexans is there.

A purchasing organization is set-up with the ambition to:

• strengthen the purchasing function performance aiming to a better alignment with the business needs


• support the Business Groups organization on the management of their Purchasing activities

This organization encompasses among other things, a team of Category Managers at Group and BG levels.

Areas of Responsibilities :

CATEGORY MANAGEMENT

• Define the Category Purchasing Company roadmap to meet business needs and E3 objectives, especially in term of security of supply, TCO competitiveness, cash, innovation and CSR


• Define the Category objective and manage its activities in accordance with business needs and Group Purchasing objectives - Align targets and arbitrate priorities with BGs whenever needed


• Monitor purchasing standards and indicators adapted to its Category (standard contractual models, performance dashboard, ...)


• Supervise the purchasing risk analysis and mitigation plans implementation in the scope of his/her Category


• Manage a network of Regional Category Managers to ensure full alignment with the global strategy

MARKET INTELLIGENCE

• Analyzes market trends (products, suppliers and customers) and cost drivers globally


• Establishes market benchmarks (customers, competitors, suppliers)


• Ensure product cost structure analysis is built as part of the Category Plan

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

• Secures a proper Supplier Panel is defined for the Category covering all BGs


• Coordinate Supplier Relationship Management in order to leverage cross-BG synergies and common needs


• Supports and/or manages supplier relationships at proper level


• Promotes Suppliers engagement and deployment of framework or/and long-term agreements for the Category


• Drives or/and supports Supplier negotiations as needed

Required skills & Qualifications :

• Experience: minimum 10 years leadership experience in Purchasing within Industrial environments, including some experience in Plastic Raw Material Purchasing category management


• Education: Engineering Master degree or equivalent, MBA a plus


• Fluent in English, one to two other languages a plus


• Leadership skills:
  
  
  
  • Very strong drive, ability to mobilize transversal and cross-functional teams
  
  
  • Transformation skills, developing internal stakeholders ways of working as well as make cross-business teams and other internal stakeholders work most efficiently together
  
  
  • Cross-functional, multi-sites and multicultural (global) leadership
  
  
  
  


• Communication skills

• Mastering the purchasing value chain, and specifically:
  
  
  
  • Category management, Direct Purchasing best practices knowledge & experience (all levers) in industrial environment.
  
  
  • Experience with plastic and steel related raw materials categories
  
  
  • Contract management
  
  
  • Supplier management and negotiation skills in complex and VUCA environments
  
  
  • Strategic mindset, ability to define, influence or / and validate global Category strategies
  
  
  
  


• Ability to take decision based on available facts:
  
  
  
  • Makes prompt, clear decisions which may involve tough choices or considered risks
  
  
  • Take responsibility for actions, projects and people
  
  
  • Takes initiatives, acts with confidence and works under own direction
  
  
  • Continuously initiates and generates cost and cash optimization activity
  
  
  
  


• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations:
  
  
  
  • Total Cost objective minded & value driven
  
  
  
  


• Entrepreneurial and performing thinking:
  
  
  
  • Keeps up to date with supplier information and market trends
  
  
  • Identifies business opportunities for the organization
  
  
  
  


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  Analytic mindset

  
  


• Internal Customer driven, with ability to challenge status-quo