Eaton's Corporate Sector division is currently seeking a Global Category Manager Electronics.
**What you'll do**:
- We are looking for a Global Category Manager, Electronics to join our team.
- This individual will lead the development, management and oversight of standard supply chain processes and develops enterprise strategies through consensus building to implement enterprise-wide cost-effective improvements for Eaton. This position develops long term category strategic planning, creates category metrics, and ensures category strategies are aligned, deployed, and meet the requirements of Supply Chain Management across Eaton operations. This position is responsible for driving the sourcing strategies for the Electronics category which can include active and passive components.- Establish and lead supply chain teams in developing strategies to leverage Eaton's Enterprise buy, generate cost-outcome results, reduce supply base, and improve quality and service performance.
- Initiate, develop and execute enterprise strategic initiatives to facilitate cross-business synergies and increased leverage across a rationalized set of global preferred supplier partners.
- Negotiate and manage key strategic supplier contracts and relationships
- Establish, review, approve, monitor, and report compliance to category agreements and strategies based upon Eaton SCM strategic directions.
- Lead category to develop innovative business solutions, forecasts, and category projections to understand and manage economics, risks, and market drivers.
- Present to senior management new planning tools, methods, technical analysis, standards, and procurement opportunities that are aligned with SCM/Eaton strategic plans and cost reduction initiatives.
- Lead enterprise category for supporting and managing supply chain strategic and operations goals and objectives.
- Identify and implement innovative solutions to business problems, independently and through high performance cross-functional teams.
- Benchmark procurement processes to develop and implement best practices throughout Eaton and Supply Chain Management.
- Create alignment between corporate, supplier diversity and business unit strategic and financial plans.
- Conduct Supplier Business Reviews with top 20 strategic suppliers on a regular basis annually and executes negotiation calendar to negotiate 80% of spend annually.
- Drive Eaton's Go Green process to meet Enterprise goals and understand market gap available in category through Ariba RFQs, E-Auctions, Should Cost, Supplier Total Waste Elimination Events and market intelligence
- Create and develop site intimacy with key customers and stakeholders in decision making process
**Qualifications**:
**Basic Qualifications**:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 3 years' professional experience in Supply Chain or Operations
- No relocation benefit is being offered for this position.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or Business Administration or Mechanical, Industrial or Production Engineering from an accredited institution.
- Professional Supply Chain related certification (e.g. CPM, CPIM)
- MBA or Master's degree in Supply Chain from an accredited institution
- 7+ years' supply chain experience with accountability across multiple manufacturing facilities
- 3-5 years' category management experience with a strong preference for electronics components experience
**Skills**:
**Position Criteria**
- Knowledge of the Electronic Components category and ability to identify technology and economic trends within the category
- Demonstrates knowledge and experience in successfully deploying category strategies and driving cost-out.
- Creative thinking skills to produce new approaches in category management and implement emerging tools
- Communication, customer service and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with senior management, suppliers, operations and SCM personnel
- Ability to coordinate cross-functional / global teams
- Ability to influence and drive effective organizational change across impacted regions/businesses
- Ability to drive results via fact-based negotiations
- Ability to manage cost-out projects against scope, schedule and budget
We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.
