Global Category Manager

Ashland Inc.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity to join Ashland's Global Procurement team for a Global Category Manager responsible for developing and executing global procurement strategies for Toll Manufacturing (Tolling), Purchased For Resale (PFR), Environmental Remediation Services and Waste Management.

Work location is flexible and eligible for work from home.

This role serves as the primary procurement category manager for these categories, driving supplier performance, cost optimization, supply assurance, risk mitigation, compliance and sustainability objectives.

In addition, this role manages complex commercial relationships, negotiates multi-million-dollar agreements, oversees toller and supplier networks, supports remediation programs and leads initiatives that improve procurement processes and governance.

This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the procurement function.

This position will report to the Senior Manager, Procurement Supply Chain, Tolling Services, Remediation and Global Real Estate- Global Procurement.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following :


* Develop Category Strategy plans following 7 step strategic sourcing methodology and use appropriate support tools to drive results and deliver savings.


* Ensuring all procurement services are met for the assigned Ashland business units, plants, labs, and / or facilities.


* Negotiate, implement, and manage strategic contracts to ensure optimum cost and reliable supply.


* Identify and lead opportunities for cost savings, better efficiency, and other areas of improvement; recommend and/or implement policy or process changes, as appropriate.


* Develop and deploy supply risk assessment and mitigation programs to ensure business continuity.


* Manage the full vendor lifecycle, including supplier identification, due diligence, qualification trials,, contracting and operational and performance reviews, including resolving operational issues related to supply challenges.


* Facilitating RFP / RFQ / RFI and preparing Coupa sourcing / bidding events according to engineering specifications and / or business requirements.


* Conducting bid analysis with a cross functional team and awarding based on internal team consensus.


* Lead cross-functional global teams.

However, person would be responsible for managing assigned high value/complex spend categories directly.


* Be an active member of the Global Tolling Team and actively collaborate with other leadership team members to deliver on procurement/corporate objectives.


* Develop and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers driving optimized value through strategic relationship management program.


* Extracting and analyzing spend data by various criteria from various ERP/S2P reporting tools (Coupa, SAP, QlikView).


* Representing as Corporate Agent: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance and Corporate Policies ...