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At Orion Steel Group LLC, our strength starts with our people! As a team we collaborate to solve problems, contribute ideas and challenge each other to ensure growth and ultimately success for the business and our employees.
Job Description and Responsibilities
The Category Manager, Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) is responsible for developing sourcing strategies, driving supplier performance, and optimizing cost across a portfolio that includes Bearings & Parts, Rolls, Repairs, Machining and Safety Supplies.
This role is pivotal in ensuring of continuity of critical MRO services while delivering bottom-line impact through supplier engagement, strategic sourcing initiatives, and total cost improvements across all North American operations.
Orion Steel is committed to maintaining and promoting a safe, healthy and injury-free environment. It is required for all jobs.
* Lead the creation and implementation of multi-year category strategies that align with business goals and target improvements in cost, quality, and service.
* Own the MRO category portfolio, ensuring a competitive and resilient supply base that meets operational and commercial goals.
* Coordinate with local and regional stakeholders to drive alignment, adoption, and measurable operational impact.
* Manage end-to-end sourcing processes, including supplier identification, RFP development, negotiations, and contracting.
* Drive value through total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements, risk mitigation, and supplier consolidation.
* Collaborate with Legal and Finance teams to support contract development, internal approvals, and compliance tracking.
* Lead cross-functional teams involving Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Logistics, and Finance to define KPIs and track supplier performance, ensuring procurement delivers measurable value beyond cost savings.
* Build and maintain effective relationships with key stakeholders to drive alignment, ensure continuous feedback, and support long-term category planning and execution.
* Drive stakeholder engagement throughout sourcing and implementation phases to ensure smooth adoption of contracts, compliance with negotiated terms, and realization of intended value.
* Build and manage supplier relationships through performance scorecards and structured business reviews.
* Leverage spend data, cost models, and market intelligence to identify opportunities, validate sourcing decisions, and track category performance.
* Partner with analytics and IT teams to build Power BI dashboards and reporting tools.
* Monitor and report on KPIs, including cost savings, supplier scorecards, and service level metrics.
* Monitor global and regional market trends, capacity shifts, input costs, and geopolitical risks that impact MRO categories.
* Performs other duties as they might be assigned
Requirements
* Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufactur...
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Type: Permanent Location: Chicago, US-IL
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-08-21 08:40:43
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At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.
Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com
Job Function:
Procurement
Job Sub Function:
Category
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America
Job Description:
Abiomed, a part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for a Category Manager for Direct Precision Materials, located in Danvers, MA.
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything.
Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.
Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.
Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.
Key Responsibilities:
Category Management
* Develop and/or support the category sourcing strategy for the defined portfolio through Business needs assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.
* Proactively engage business partners to identify needs and incorporate those needs into sub-category strategies.
* Build supply network through developing, identifying suppliers applying deep subject matter expertise based on supply market analysis, industry intelligence.
* Understand supply market trends, competitor analysis to deliver proactive sourcing strategies.
Sourcing:
* Lead or support sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners, Influence decisions, delivering on-going value improvements while driving competitive advantage.
* Develop spend analysis and gather market intelligence in alignment with business goals.
* Develop and lead cost management initiatives; Prepare and execute RFQs for medium to high complexity sourcing decisions; Conduct negotiations with suppliers.
* Build short term, and long-term capacities with suppliers to support business growth.
* Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
* Build and maintain relationships throughout Abiomed that results in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions.
* Drive sourcing activities for defined categories to support new products under development.
Supplier Management:
* Develo...
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Type: Permanent Location: Danvers, US-MA
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-08-21 08:20:27
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Your Job
Koch Ag & Energy Solutions (KAES) is seeking a Strategic Buyer to join our Procurement team at our Wichita, KS headquarters.
We are looking for entrepreneurial individuals with strong problem-solving skills to help our teams and business learn, improve, and grow.
Our Team
This role will support KAES sites where methanol, fertilizer, and other related products are created.
The centralized KAES Procurement Team supports these sites by sourcing labor, and purchasing materials and equipment for the site.
The procurement team works closely with our maintenance, warehouse, engineering, and project management teams to develop procurement and execution strategy to produce best economic results.
The role will be based in our Wichita, KS headquarters and include up to 25% travel with on-call support as needed.
What You Will Do
* Facilitate collaboration between internal customers to understand purchasing or sourcing requirements (E.g.
critical project lead times, comprehensive event sourcing strategies, timelines for project deliverables, etc.)
* Obtain, analyze, evaluate and negotiate quotes, while offering recommendations to internal customers that align and balance business needs with lowest total cost of ownership.
* Review and negotiate commercial agreements in alignment with Koch risk philosophy.
* Use daily, weekly, and monthly reporting tools to support the procurement capability for your designated site and team
* Assist in implementing new processes and continuously improving existing ones.
* Promote purchasing transactional excellence through coaching procurement facing teammates, internally and externally, and increasing the output of higher efficiency tools like Ariba, Track, and others.
* Potential to require more travel during maintenance cycle years every 3-4 years.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
* 2+ years of experience as a Buyer, in procurement, and/or in supply chain management in a manufacturing environment
* Experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Excel (reporting)
* Ability to travel up to 25% of the time to our US and Canada sites
What Will Put You Ahead
* 4+ years of experience as a Buyer, in procurement, and/or in supply chain management in a manufacturing environment
* Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Supply Chain Management, Agriculture or a related field
* Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite tools including Access (database applications)
* Experience with reporting systems such as Tableau or PowerBI
* Previous experience of direct negotiation with vendors
This position is not eligible for visa employment sponsorship.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs.
This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions.
Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data...
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Type: Permanent Location: Wichita, US-KS
Salary / Rate: Not Specified
Posted: 2025-08-19 08:26:56
