Category Manager

Category Manager

Location : Bangalore : (Work From Office)

Job Type : Permanent

The primary responsibilities of the Category Manager are to drive total cost of ownership reductions for a defined portfolio of strategic spend categories. The Category Manager is a process leader and portfolio manager and may also be a people leader responsible for strategic procurement effectiveness for a particular bundle of categories.

The Category Manager has the following key objectives :

• Lead procurement activities for multiple areas of spend within a portfolio with the goal of achieving significant initial cost productions supplanted with year over year productivity improvements and total cost of goods and services procured while maintaining or improving quality and vendor service levels.
• Work closely with key stakeholders and member organizations and then corporate functions to develop effective cost reduction strategies and implementation plans.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities :

o Based on each category’s procurement strategy, oversee the supplier selection and negotiation process for key procurement teams.

o Establish and maintain contractual and business relationships with the senior management of key suppliers.

o Support the procurement managers in the resolution of major customer satisfaction and vendor performance issues.

o Be active in the effort to achieve small and disadvantaged business procurement content objectives.

o With the assistance of the procurement team members, track forecasted versus actual savings for the portfolio of categories and communicate performance against these measures and their potential budgetary impact.

o Collaborate with cross-functional senior stakeholders to ensure savings are built into budgets and the annual operating plan.

o Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop, champion, and ensure implementation of ideas that will optimize Zimmer Biomet’s total cost of ownership for spend categories within the portfolio.

o Remain current with market trends through relationships with procurement managers, suppliers, and market experts and ensure Zimmer Biomet has access to and familiarity with emerging supplier capabilities.

o Identify and define procurement best practices both within and external and ensure that those best practices are widely adopted within the company.

o Collaborate actively with key stakeholders such as Engineering and Marketing to ensure Procurement is actively engaged at the beginning of the process in core business initiatives and processes.

o Maintain a working knowledge of applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations as well as any internal policies or procedures to ensure that the behavior exhibited by the organization is honest, ethical, and professional.

o Partner with other functions to ensure compliance with mandatory and non-mandatory training, continuing education, and work assessments.

General Success Criteria :

This is not an exhaustive list of duties or functions and might not necessarily comprise

all the essential functions of the position. The employee may perform other related duties

as negotiated to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Expected Areas of Competence (i.E., knowledge, skills, and abilities) :

Education / Experience Requirements :

Travel Requirements :