Global Category Manager, CAPEX & COE

About Ingredion

Join Ingredion, where innovation impacts lives worldwide! Without even realizing it, you’ve experienced our work in your favorite chocolate, your pet’s food, the paper you write on, and your everyday snacks. As a global powerhouse across more than 60 industries, we harness the potential of natural ingredients to transform lives. Whether you’re just starting your career or bringing years of experience, there's a place for you here to make a real difference.

Be part of our team that values a wide range of perspectives and is committed to shaping a better world with every product we create. The Global Category Manager, Capital & COE, will be responsible for Global Capital Procurement in all aspects associated with Ingredion’s global category spend to a value of ~$300M or more, by providing input across categories, suppliers, and sourcing events as needed.

This role will require a candidate with the ability to work closely, yet remotely, with Regional and Global procurement teams regarding the utilization of strategies and techniques within the operating environment.

Ingredion is a leading global, plant-based ingredients solutions company. We make sweeteners, starches, nutrition ingredients and biomaterials that are used by customers in everyday products from foods and beverages to paper and pharmaceuticals.

At Ingredion, we embrace possibilities and inspire each other to think big. Together, we are reimagining how we can make life better through our differentiated ingredients and innovative solutions. We share an inspiring purpose — to make life better, for our colleagues, our customers, our communities, and the world. We belong to a culture of bold innovators, of people who believe that their skills, creativity, and passion can deliver solutions that can enhance people’s lives.

We create what's next, transforming our imagination into innovation.

We have a welcoming and collaborative environment to build and grow a career in a multinational company. Here, everyone can be their authentic selves and be part of a community of talented and caring people, interacting with professionals around the world, made up of varied backgrounds, cultures and industries. We are encouraged to think differently and innovate through collaboration and experimentation.

We are constantly imagining new ways to bring value to our customers, through new ingredients, solutions, and ways of working.

• Delivering on Ingredion’s capital plan and execution of sourcing events to reduce cost, drive adherence to schedule, and improve service and quality levels.
• Developing, executing, and evaluating competitive bids, including providing recommendations to business partners based on operational best practices
• Guiding the business through the sourcing process, and providing insights, advice, and resources (e.g., tools and processes)
• Develop a centralized category management approach and category strategies for key equipment
• Build and develop talent that directly reports to the global category manager
• Supporting the business in performing performance, risk, and relationship reviews at the supplier level
• Build partnerships with front-line business stakeholders
• Drive adherence in use of the company’s procurement technology platforms such as SAP and Power Steering.
• Drive adherence to CAPEX procurement policies
• Drive Center of Excellence for Global CAPEX:
  Improve templates for contracting, RFx, supplier qualification process, drive supplier performance scorecards and improve overall global CAPEX standardization
• This role will require a candidate with the ability to work closely, yet remotely, with regional procurement teams regarding the utilization of strategies and techniques within the operating environment.
• Owning analysis to identify additional levers at global & local scale
• Collaborating with local category managers to support strategy execution in the region/country
• Support regional CAPEX labor market including engineering services
• Support maintenance strategy for US/CAN maintenance labor

• A bachelor’s degree in business, supply management, engineering, life science, or other related discipline and…