Category Manager Heavy Equipment & Heavy Vehicle

1. Develop the overall category strategy for a specific category, ensuring the leverage of group volumes, spend and relationships in a way that benefits the company

• Solicits input and engages category stakeholders on a regular basis to understand business unit needs and develop requirements/specifications for the category.
• Understand internal category profile through various analysis covering Internal demand dynamics, spend analysis (SKU, suppliers, purchase price, total cost of ownership model impact to P&L savings, etc).
• Provides expert-level category knowledge of supply base and market including not limited to supply market landscape, supply & demand market dynamics, category trend analysis, and supplier price & cost structure, legal and regulatory environment, sources of competitive advantage, etc.
• Sets category strategy aligned to business needs, present the strategy to the procurement council for approval and reviews the strategy on a regular basis:

• Perform supplier qualification assessment & registration (supplier identification, qualification process, etc.)
• Lead bidding (RFx) process (bidding document preparation, technical & commercial evaluation criteria)
• Prepare and execute the negotiation with supplier as per company's interest leading to framework agreement Develop category supply rules / plan for the overall business units

• Ongoing tracking of category savings achieved and business units purchase behaviour adhering to framework agreement.
• Interface with suppliers and resolve any escalated issues from the procurement operations team.
• Supplier relationship management.
• Work with internal business customers and suppliers to identify and drive continuous improvement and long-term strategic value that can be obtained through supplier collaboration.
• Owns and manages supplier relationship.
• Develops and maintains knowledge-base of the category & share category best practices across the group to ensure transfer of knowledge over time.

• Min Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering from reputable University.
• Have 10-12 years experience in strategic sourcing, procurement strategic.
• Have strong commercial sense and technical knowledge regarding heavy equipments and heavy vehicle.
• Preferably have experience from Manufacturing industry.
• Good analytical skill, interpersonal skill, communication skill.
• Fluent in English both written or spoken.