Senior Project Category Leader

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The Role: Senior Project Category Leader

The Senior Project Category Leader supports selected Product Development projects within the Offer Creation Process (OCP), securing an efficient supplier selection and supplier management process, reaching & beating end-to-end cost, time-to-market, and Quality objectives.

He/she is a key contact for the coordination of purchasing activities between the Global Supply Chain (GSC) organization and the Line of Business organization (LoB).

He/she supports the development of a panel of Best-in-Class suppliers that match the LoB needs in terms of growth and technical challenges.

He/she is a strong team player in the Offer Creation Process, GSC, and the Schneider Electric Purchasing community, where they are recognized for supplier market expertise.

What will you do?


* Responsible for all Purchasing activities within product development projects.



* Lead the selection of Procurement Deliverables to apply on every project and ensure they are done on time according to OCP guidelines.


* Create the Project Procurement Strategy, get project approval and secure implementation.


* Promote Co-Development with suppliers and Early Supplier Involvement on OCP projects.

Bring supplier market knowledge into OCP projects.


* Participate in Make or Buy (MoB) analysis for components & sub-assemblies in OCP projects.


* Monitor and ensure competitive material cost to meet product target cost (design/redesign to cost).

Participate to product cost estimation.


* Supplier selection and business award for components & sub-assembly/suppliers in consistency with global/regional commodity strategy and supplier strategy.

Guide components & sub-assembly selection with a purchasing approach (quality, Total Cost of Ownership, innovation, avoid mono source situations, promote standardization, supply chain flexibility, etc.).

Analyze and challenge the needs.


* Contribute to the achievement of OCP project targets (quality, product cost, project cost, and time-to-market) while respecting the purchasing processes and strategies.

Responsible for negotiations with suppliers in all Purchasing terms and conditions not already defined by the commodity manager/contract.

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