Indirect Category Manager

Veolia Water Technologies & Solutions (VWTS) is a worldwide leader in water recovery, treatment, and reuse. We design and supply a range of water systems, from food and beverage applications to municipal water, to microelectronics ultrapure water and heavy industrial wastewater treatment.  We serve more than 50,000 customers worldwide and treat more than 11 million cubic meters of water every day.  We simply aim to be the benchmark company for ecological transformation across the world. 
At WTS, we realize diverse teams make smarter decisions, deliver better results, and build stronger communities. We are an organization that champions diversity and inclusion at every rung of the ladder and are proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We offer challenging and meaningful careers, with competitive benefits and flexible work arrangements. 
The Manager, Indirect Category Manager NAM, reports to Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement NAM and is responsible for executing global strategies in North American operations as well as developing strategies for regional-specific categories.  This role has the opportunity to drive productivity and operational efficiencies by applying best-in-class strategies in a matrix environment and be part of transformational change and will work closely with Global Category Managers as well as North American manufacturing plants.
This includes the categories of IT, Transport & Logistics, Fleet, Capital Equipment Projects, and Maintenance/MRO.
Key Characteristics 
-Negotiation skills, including expert understanding of terms and conditions and executing contracts
-Communication and collaboration skills, engaging with a broad internal customer base
-Team building skills and the ability to successfully build working relationships with peers in other parts of the business, that result in an understanding of their parts of the business as well as to identify and leverage common suppliers' direct spend to a preferred supplier network.
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Duties & Responsibilities: Scope: Approximately 25 plants in North America:  Canada, the US, and the Caribbean
-Engage with business leaders and a broad range of requesters for procurement of  Indirect goods and services
-Conduct RPQs and award business using a methodical approach to drive business to a preferred supplier network, improve processes, and drive out cost
-Partner with internal stakeholders at a variety of levels throughout different Veolia  business units
-Negotiate with suppliers to complete contracts
-Experience working with legal on contract language
Hard Skills:
-Knowledge of the Indirect procurement space in an industrial environment
-Analytical skills, pulling data from multiple sources and converting it into decision-making information
-Ability to manage multiple initiatives, identifying priorities to deliver best results
Soft Skills: 
-Expert: Demonstrate subject matter expertise in the field.
-Team Player: Ability to work with others toward a shared goal, participating actively, accountable, and committed to the entire team respecting peers, leadership, stakeholders, and clients.                                             
-Strategic: Gets the big game. Understands long term. Respects short term but doesn’t get hung up in the noise.     
-Curious: Ability to pose high-impact questions, seeing opportunities in areas where others see problems.    
-Courageous: Champions ideas and helps transform them into actions.      
- Flexibility: Adapt and respond to the changing environment and to constructively create opportunities for change through active participation.
-Self Motivated: Drives to a common goal and able to work independently
                                                                                                                
Required Education & Experience
-Bachelor’s degree in business or operations,  or equivalent experience
- 6 years of relevant experience in procurement, sourcing, and manufacturing
- Proven leadership skills in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
Preferred:
-Experience with SAP, Ariba, and Google
-Demonstrated success navigating within a matrix organizations