Category Manager; Gas Generation

About Ameren Services (B&CS)

Ameren Services provides administrative support and services to Ameren Corporation and its operating companies, subsidiaries and affiliates. Ameren Services includes a wide range of skill sets and roles, from finance and legal experts to digital and cyber specialists, plus those charged with ensuring environmental compliance and operational safety. Together, we help execute a strategy that enables Ameren to deliver superior long‑term value to customers, shareholders and the environment.

• Medical coverage on date of hire
• 100% employer paid cash balance pension plan
• 401(k) with company match fully vested on date of hire
• Minimum of 15 days paid vacation and 12 paid holidays
• Paid parental leave and family caregiver leave

The Category Manageris responsible for the development and implementation of Ameren-widesourcingstrategiesforassignedcategoriesofapproximate $2.5 Billion of annualsourceablespend to leverage the supply base, ensure continuity of supply, maximize cost savings/value realization, and supporttheachievement of Ameren's business strategy in a proactive manner by truly partnering with the business stakeholders as well as the vendors.

• Represent the Procurement organization to the broader Ameren businesses and implement strategies to strategically source related spend
• Utilize the sourcing process to develop, implement and manage proposal activities; lead negotiation and completion of contracts with suppliers to maximize benefits across Ameren.

• Analyze and leverage spend across all Ameren business segments. Segment spend based on category and work with stakeholders to definecurrent and futurebusiness needs.
• Ensure assigned category(ies) are procured in a manner which mitigates risk and provides the highest overall total value to Ameren through:

• Supplier assessments and rationalization
• Diverse spend
• Negotiationstrategy and execution to drive lowest
  
  Total Cost of Ownership(TCO)

• Make vs. buy analyses
• Should cost models
• Cycle time improvements
• Security and continuityofreliablesupply
  
  Continuous improvement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with team members in Ameren's sourcing organization
• Develop and maintain astrong network and foster collaboration with key internal stakeholders and suppliers to gain input into demand planning and forecasting, assist in strategy development, advocate the use of the negotiated contracts and influence strategy implementation.
• Balance commercial and contractual complexities with stakeholders, through influencing change(without authority), driving enterprise consistency and delivering valuewith internal clients and external stakeholders,e.g.manage stakeholder expectations,operational cultures and individual business requirement,establish and adjust priorities, manage supplier dispute resolution process

• Leads cross-functional teams consisting of technical SMEs, operations SCM personnel, Legal and other stakeholders, as required, in the development and implementation of sourcing strategies

• maintain company-wide demand profiles and external supply and demand MIinformation;
• interpret MI to drive category strategies and provide direction to stakeholders (i.e.raising changes in market conditions which could have an impact to cost or schedule);

• understand the marketplace for assigned category(ies), including industry structure and new and non-traditionalsuppliers;
• buildcost models, identifying value and cost drivers, to drive for better understanding of costs and results during supplier negotiations.

• for optimizing and leveraging category management processes, policies and tools with the potential for significant corporate financial impact.
• forlong‑term strategy development and implementation of a complex categories within the materials and/or equipment portfolio, to achieve lower total cost of ownership and higher value for Ameren.
• forthe development and implementation of complex category strategies that mitigate risk and deliver competitive advantage for Ameren
• understand, monitor, and be proactive to current category market conditions/trends, developing technologies, supply chain capacity/capability, product knowledge and supply/demand challenges
• apply a broad and deep subject matter expertise in category management, market dynamics, and economic and industry trends impacting
  
  Amerento support the…