Global Category Manager

Strategy / Procurement Deliveries Execution:
Accountable for Procurement end-to-end deliveries for the global category team (Strategy, Sourcing, Supplier portfolio, Industrialization, Running production, End of life)
Intake Management:
Decide on new intakes to the global category team backlog based on different stakeholder needs and fast shifting priorities. 
Backlog management:
Own, prioritize and secure the Procurement deliveries by the global category team to maximize the business value through the whole lifecycle. 
Global Category Team Facilitation:
Lead planning events, remove impediments and facilitate problem-solving, collaboration, and workload distribution to enable efficient delivery by the global category team.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Develop stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concerns, and reacting to these to support business information and decisions.
Risks and Issues Management:
Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints, escalating these where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these. 
Horizon Scanning:
Maintain an understanding of current and future trends within the category area
Continuous Improvement:
Review existing operations and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement.
Personal Capability development:
Maintain an in-depth understanding of industry best practices through continuous professional development.

As GCM for this category, you should also
* Enjoy taking your own decisions and having the freedom to decide on the strategy of your own category. 
* Be confident in presenting to executive audiences. This is a very visible/strategic portfolio that often requires interaction with PMT / EMT members. 
* Have negotiation experience with global suppliers with a proven track record of success.  The category consists of large spend and strategic suppliers. 
* Have demonstrated expertise in leading a global team of professionals. The team is highly diversified and consists of very motivated people that are located on all regions. 
* Enjoy strategic challenges that can be solved with teamwork within procurement and cross-functionally. You believe that your strength is in the team! 
* Enjoy having a lot of internal and external interactions, acting as an ambassador for procurement internally and for Volvo Cars externally. 


More specifically, you will be responsible for

Strategy / Procurement Deliveries Execution:
Accountable for Procurement end-to-end deliveries for the global category team (Strategy, Sourcing, Supplier portfolio, Industrialization, Running production, End of life)
Intake Management:
Decide on new intakes to the global category team backlog based on different stakeholder needs and fast shifting priorities. 
Backlog management:
Own, prioritize and secure the Procurement deliveries by the global category team to maximize the business value through the whole lifecycle. 
Global Category Team Facilitation:
Lead planning events, remove impediments and facilitate problem-solving, collaboration, and workload distribution to enable efficient delivery by the global category team.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Develop stakeholder engagement through identifying stakeholders, finding out their needs/issues/concerns, and reacting to these to support business information and decisions.
Risks and Issues Management:
Manage identification of risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints, escalating these where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these. 
Horizon Scanning:
Maintain an understanding of current and future trends within the category area
Continuous Improvement:
Review existing operations and implement innovation processes to generate new ideas and ensure the required continuous improvement.
Personal Capability development:
Maintain an in-depth understanding of industry best practices through continuous professional development.


Do you fit the profile?

* You have an Engineering/Economy bachelor’s degree or equivalent job experience 
* You have 6-8 years of experience in Procurement
* You have strong business acumen
* Supplier network is beneficial
* You are fluent in English, spoken and written


 On a personal level

* You collaborate, build partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. 
* You are result-driven, consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances.  
* You work on your self-development by actively seeking new ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels.  
* You build trust, gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.