Category Manager

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Procurement

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Professional

Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

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This position will report to the Associate Director for Direct Precision Materials (DPM). The DPM category is key for Abiomed’s business and comprises subcategories of Metals, Ceramics, Precision Plastics, Packaging and Chemicals. This position as Category Manager will be in the lead for at least one of the above-mentioned subcategories. The Category Manager will develop sourcing strategies and supplier strategies under guidance of Category Leader.

In this role, you will plan, direct, and support the delivery against targets for financial performance, supply reliability across quality & service, and compliance adherence. This responsibility includes the need for strong engagement with internal stakeholders (particularly those located in the United States of America) and robust connection with our key external partners (particularly US based).

• Develop the category sourcing strategy for the defined portfolio through business needs assessment, Market intelligence, supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.
• Proactively engage business partners globally to identify needs and incorporate those needs into sub-category strategies.
• Build global supply network through developing, identifying suppliers applying deep subject matter expertise based on supply market analysis, industry intelligence.
• Understand global supply market trends, competitor analysis to deliver proactive sourcing strategies.

• Lead sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners, Influence decisions, delivering on-going value improvements while driving competitive advantage.
• Develop spend analysis and gather market intelligence in alignment with business goals.
• Develop and lead cost management initiatives;
  Prepare and execute RFQs for medium to high complexity sourcing decisions;
  Conduct negotiations with suppliers.
• Build short term, and long-term capacities with suppliers to support business growth.
• Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
• Build and maintain relationships throughout Abiomed that results in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions.
• Drive sourcing activities for defined categories to support new products under development.

• Develop and manage supplier partnerships to drive performance delivery, risk mitigation, and value through supplier enabled…