Indirect Category Manager

We empower smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. The business provides customers, across various industries, with end-to-end product and service solutions ensuring the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure. We provide the latest industry insights and technology to develop solutions needed to meet customers evolving challenges, including innovative critical power solutions designed for high reliability and performance. Our culture is one of quality and operational excellence fueled and supported by talented people, tools and processes, and expertise. 

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Job Overview

This role will enable a culture of spending discipline for the indirect spend via the employment of efficient, effective and best in class strategic sourcing, contract management, negotiation and supplier management practices and leveraging identified company implemented technology.

Assigned categories will have a spend up to $8M and have characteristics of a ‘leveraged’ spend bucket.

This position reports to the Sourcing Site Leader, in Matamoros, Tamaulipas site.

Responsibilities

As the Indirect Category Manager, you will:

• Work together with Indirect Global Category Manager to define strategies.
• Support the signing of templated documents such as NDA, Term Letters, Amendments, Sourcing Agreements as volume entails.
• Implement Strategies including approaches to supplier search and selection, on-going assessment and RFI/RFP/RFQ activity.
• Train internal stakeholders in procurement processes, advice on contract requirements, corporate policies and on procurement procedures.
• Support day-to-day procurement functions such as new vendor onboarding, renewing contracts, reviewing and approving purchases, requisitions, processing contingent worker forms etc.
• Resolve problems/tactical procurement issues such as queries related to Invoices, POs, eForms etc. within the relevant portfolio of projects.
• Schedule QBR meetings for assigned commodities.
• Develop and execute 2ndsource projects to support cost out and fulfillment for the commodities of Packaging and Labels.

 ELIGIBILTY REQUIREMENTS: OmniOn Power will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in Mexico for this opening. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

 Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of procurement / supply chain / sourcing experience.
• Advanced English level: Conversational. 
• Proficient in the Microsoft Office Suite: Advanced Excel knowledge. 

Desired Characteristics:

• Strong written, verbal communications and presentation skills
• Experience of working in a multinational global environment
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Experience with SAP or any ERP system. eSourcing and Contract Management
  software desired.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to adapt, prioritize and execute to
  achieve desired results.
• Knowledge of principles, practices and trends in purchasing, procurement, and contract
  negotiations.
• Experience in Indirect Sourcing Category.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizen status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, family medical leave status, or protected veterans status. 

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.