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Zurn Elkay Water Solutions · 7 hours ago

Category Manager III

Downers Grove, IL

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$125K/yr - $180K/yr

5+ years exp

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation is a thriving, values-driven company focused on providing plumbing and water delivery solutions. The Category Manager III will manage global procurement activities for direct materials, develop category strategies, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive value and support sustainability initiatives.

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Responsibilities

Maintains the highest level code of conduct and ethics

Create and implement category strategies to optimize cost, quality and delivery

Manages complex multi-year customer / supplier relationships aligned to enable our front-end portfolio strategies

Plans, organizes, directs, controls, and communicates strategic sourcing activities related to BU products and other assigned commodities aligning cross functional supply, engineering, technical support, product management, and operations groups

Conducts brainstorming sessions at Zurn Elkay facilities with cross functional teams to identify strategic commodities and deployment priorities on cost saving initiatives

Provides oversight to sourcing/project managers on the deployment of projects with internal and external stakeholders

Collaborates with internal stakeholders to identify, screen and qualify strategic suppliers. Works with global facilities to create regional and global material cost savings funnels that align with commercial strategies and financial targets

Drives spend analysis, including counter measures for projects that fall short of plan and makes decisions to remedy the issues to get the teams back on track to meet or exceed plan

Possesses an understanding of total cost of ownership

Proactively assesses internal and external process improvements and influences effective change and drive innovation and continuous improvements

Collaborates with global business units on the preparation of Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Quotations (RFQ’s) and leads the screening and supplier selection process

Negotiate and drafts supply agreements, including: payment terms, deliveries, price, freight terms, currency exchange, raw material commodity fluctuation, inventory levels

Analyzes market and delivery conditions to determine present and future (industry trends in pricing and availability that will impact the business) material availability and prepares market analysis reports

Responsible for timely reporting to agreed-upon KPI’s and presenting Strategic Sourcing plans, activities and progress

Qualification

Category Strategy CreationSupply Chain ManagementSupplier NegotiationMarket AnalysisChange ManagementDecision QualityCross-functional CollaborationConflict Management

Required

BA or BS degree preferably in Engineering or Supply Chain competency. Minimum in a business/industrial related field

At least 5 years of experience as a Category Manager in an industrial manufacturing environment with experience in an Engineering, Supply Chain, or similar position

Proven success of strategically working with suppliers or customers

Ability to travel domestically and internationally ~25%

Experience sourcing in low-cost regions

Experience working with multiple locations globally

Proven success in a change management and 'stretch' environment