Category Manager, Sheet Metal (K3)

Category Manager: Sheet Metal

Procurement - Global Supply Chain - Global Engineering to Order Organization

Your Mission

The Category Manager - K3 Sheet Metal is a key strategic leadership role within Schneider Electric's Global Engineering-To-Order (ETO) Procurement organization, covering both Europe and the International Region and reporting to the Europe Procurement Director.
You will lead the procurement strategy for one of the most critical and fastest-growing categories within the Global ETO business.

The category scope includes traditional sheet metal fabrication, tank Manufacturing, and skid solutions, representing a procurement portfolio of €200M annual business and directly supporting SE growth ambitions across 10 European plants and 9 International plants.

Your mission is to:

• Build and deploy a future-ready category strategy tailored to G ETO business needs and market dynamics.
• Coordinate plant and regional buyers, aligning local needs with regional and global priorities.
• Develop a competitive and resilient supplier base through robust supplier mapping, long-term agreements, and capacity planning.
• Ensure supply security, cost competitiveness, and operational excellence across the full value chain.
• Act as Strategic Supplier Leader for selected global suppliers, driving performance, partnership, and long-term capability development.

In this role, you connect with internal /external stakeholders with strategic procurement vision at Global ETO organization level.

And build the right suppliers, the right capacity, and the right competitiveness to grow today and ready for tomorrow.

Essential Responsibilities:
1.

Category Strategy & Planning
o Build and deploy 3 - 5 years category strategy and the APOP (Annual Productivity Operation Plan)
o Define category strategies that reflect plant level, product level, local, and global requirements, ensuring alignment with COE (center of excellence), Category management and G ETO priorities.
o Conduct comprehensive demand and risk assessments to anticipate capacity needs and supplier readiness.
o Guide & orient strategic suppliers to customer project buyer for project-based business development
2.

Deployment & Execution
o Deploy category strategy through buyers management and to ensure consistent execution of category strategy across G ETO plants
o Partner with cross functional teams (Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Tendering, industrialization, product owner) for strategy execution.
o Lead critical supplier-related escalations (supplier capacity, pricing, lead time improvement) and secure resolution on supply, quality, or service issues.

3.

Strategic Supplier Management
o Lead negotiations for MSAs, capacity agreements, long-term commitments, innovations and performance roadmaps.
o Drive supplier engagement through SRM and executive business reviews.
4.

Cost, Productivity & Competitiveness
o Drive YoY productivity through: Negotiation, COS (Change of supplier), QVE (...