Category Manager - Workforce, Real Estate, Facilities and Enterprise Service

About Akzonobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com 

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Job Description

• Develop and deploy regional sourcing strategy for the NPR spend across region.
• Lead and manage strategic supplier management
• Influence internal stakeholders and business teams strategically.
• Exhibit leadership behaviors to both the category team and suppliers.
• Lead and deliver regional and global projects specific to NPR category.
• Implement strategic cost management through e-tenders, negotiation, and contract management.
• Ensure year-on-year value creation in line with company and functional goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop roadmap, including critical projects and initiatives.
• Build and sustain a vendor base encompassing current and prospective vendors.
• Contribute proactively to AkzoNobel’s Science-Based Target initiative (SBTi).
• Develop alternate vendors, mitigating single/sole source material/spend.
• Demonstrate high levels of regional and global collaboration.

Job Requirement

• Master’s in Business Administration or Supply Chain preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a strategic sourcing role with similar complexity, spend size, and geography. Exposure to GBS is an added advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Proven experience in global sourcing roles, change management, and leading strategic projects.
• Superior influencing skills.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficient in problem solving, project management, team working/building.
• Ability to work under minimal supervision with broad direction.
• Continuous Improvement leadership ability.
• Ability to establish common ground within the organization.
• Excellent communicator with different management layers in different functions (Finance, Procurement, IM) and in different parts of the company (BU, GBS and BPO);
• Thinker and Do’er: understand the big picture & integration points; take personal accountability and ownership of tasks and deliver results;
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and influential skills
• Ability to build relationships across the organization and all geographic regions
• Quick learner; absorbs information and concepts quickly

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

Requisition ID: 49541