The Category Manager provides category leadership for key sub-categories of spend in support of their global category.
They undertake category management and global supplier relationship management, driving end-to-end spend management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve value delivery, including sustainability, within their category. They do this through collaborating across and beyond procurement, including with regional, business, and cross-functional resources.
They know their categories intimately and support development of innovative strategies which deliver business objectives and strong category guidance which ensures efficient end to end category execution. They work with regional and Capability Centre resources for optimal, compliant, and competitive procurement outcomes, collaborating across and beyond procurement.
Problem solvers with good commercial acumen, they create solutions to category challenges, they cultivate senior collaborator relationships and work with businesses to understand their evolving needs alongside developing deep insights into supply markets, including disruptors and technological advances.
They bring value through orchestrating development of transformational strategies in support of Castrol’s strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to realize identified value and working with delivery teams to ensure that their global strategies are driven locally.