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Category Specialist, Kraków
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Category Specialist, Kraków
Kraków, Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Polska
TN Poland
25. 2. 2025
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This position is responsible for performing key activities to assure supply continuity across specific commodities. This position takes direction from the Director of Category Management and works cross-functionally to deliver cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Support for monitoring active projects, updating status, eliminating roadblocks, and escalating issues as appropriate.

Responsibilities:

  • Conducts business analysis of spend from PowerBI and other tools. Provides insights into the drivers of spend history and implications to future spend projections using SIOP plan.
  • Tracks business performance against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, price variance, commodity changes, and other business critical metrics to share with Procurement Leadership.
  • Supports Procurement Program Managers (PPM), Commodity Managers (CM), and Senior Procurement Leaders in development of various program presentations including supplier relationship management, transformation progress, QBRs, Deep Dives, weekly High/Low lights reviews, and preferred supplier analysis.
  • Day to day support across PPM and CM teams solving business issues and analysis, as needed.
  • Lead MDI (manage for daily improvement) activities to drive continuous improvement with Procurement Teams.
  • Perform competitive analysis with RFI, RFP, and RFQ development including assess results, document recommendations, and assist in communication of results to vendors and internal stakeholders.
  • Works closely with Senior Leadership to develop analytic tools to support Category Strategy, Category Leadership, and Procurement initiatives.
  • Research, track and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased productivity.
  • Track receipts and payment price of certain commodities regularly to ensure critical supplier invoices are paid on time.
  • Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement.

Requirements:

  • Bachelors Degree required.
  • 1 year of experience in procurement field.
  • Proficient with Excel and PowerPoint; PowerBI, MS Access, Project, and Visio experience a plus.
  • Experience with SAP software a plus, but not required.
  • Advanced level of English Proficiency, any additional language proficiency is a plus.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

  • Quantitative Analysis: skillful in using quantitative analysis to understand business issues.
  • Influence: can influence and persuade other people, even without direct authority.
  • Recognition of Opportunity: recognizes new opportunities and acts to take advantage of them.
  • Assertiveness: able to defend a point of view and to confront others appropriately when necessary; unafraid to take controversial positions and challenge the conventional wisdom or status quo.
  • Creative Thinking: able to think creatively, generating new ideas and approaches to situations.
  • Written Communication: a good writer; expresses ideas and positions clearly.
  • Cross Cultural: Able to interact effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds.
  • Technical Expertise: extensive knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Multi-Tasker: Ability to prioritize multiple stakeholders and competing priorities to meet critical business needs in a timely manner.

Offer:

  • Outstanding and supportive atmosphere of collaboration in the team and in Westinghouse group.
  • Attractive remuneration with bonuses.
  • Hybrid model of work, flexible working time.
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