Associate Category Manager

Lyondell Basell is a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. With a nearly 70-year legacy that includes a Nobel Prize in Chemistry and our proprietary Mo Re Tec  recycling technology, LYB is enabling a more sustainable future for generations to come. LYB develops high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare.

LYB places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. We're addressing the global challenges of ending plastic waste, taking climate action, and supporting a thriving society, while generating value for our customers, investors, and society.

A Day in the Life
Our manufacturing sites all depend on a continuous supply of utilities such as industrial gases, water, steam and electricity. As an Associate Category Manager, Industrial Gases and Utilities at Lyondell Basell, you will be responsible for reliable utility supplies to our manufacturing sites as well as helping to advance the company’s long-term decarbonization activities in Europe including procurement of low carbon utilities.

In your role, you’ll focus on a portfolio of manufacturing sites in Europe, ensuring the deployment of strategic utilities purchasing plans, providing recommendations on supplier selection and negotiation strategy, managing current contracts and providing recommendations on supplier selection to help Lyondell Basell meet our decarbonization goals.
In close collaboration with Industrial Gas & Utilities Leadership, you will get a lot of freedom, being responsible for the entire sourcing process regarding your area of responsibility. This includes translating strategic requirements and market insights into operational activities through contract negotiation, maintaining strategic supplier relationships and evaluating the competitive state of the market and existing contracts. You will put your in-depth understanding of utility sourcing strategies and utility markets into practice on a tactical and strategic level, ensuring alignment with all stakeholders during the process.
The role of Associate Category Manager, Industrial Gases and Utilities is complex with a lot of growth opportunity and is a role in which you can stretch yourself to set the foundation for further career development.
Roles & responsibilities:

Executes the day to day sourcing process according to contract terms and is able to effectively source utilities with increasing complexity and value.

Assesses supplier capabilities through key performance indicators and makes recommendations on supplier acceptability.

Demonstrates the capability to challenge inefficiencies, process deviations, supply unreliability’s and strategy deviations.

Manages supplier relationships, including the commercial relationship; identifies and qualifies new suppliers as required.

Supports the overall Industrial Gas & Utilities group during complex sourcing initiatives and segment strategy development through data modeling and analysis, change management and new process execution.

Understands strategies for assigned utility segments and proactively drives initiatives to meet utility sourcing objectives.

Drives sustainability opportunities with supply base to deliver value to the business.

Works with internal customers to develop and compose bid specification in such a manner that internal customer needs are addressed.

Selects pre-screened list of suppliers through a RFI process and conduct competitive selection through a RFP process.

Negotiates, executes and implements commercial agreements and related work…