Category Manager

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.
 

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.
Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.
Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Category Manager Plastic Components. to join us at any of our locations in Europe. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role
As the Category Manager Plastic Components your responsibility is the European-wide category sourcing plan for specific Components -sub-categories (Plastic Components). You are responsible for delivering the benefits associated with the sub-category for which he/she is accountable. You are fostering European supplier relationships associated with the sub-category and will work closely with the stakeholders in all functional areas to deliver benefits across the specific sub-category. You are also maintaining close relationships with stakeholders to manage the innovation process with suppliers and to align on long term development needs. 

Responsibilities:

• You will manage the Plastic Components sub-categories to make the category work efficiently and to make sure all KPI’s are met.
• You contribute to the Europe-wide -sub-category sourcing plan, focusing on the benefits achievement and plans related to all sub-categories.
• You continuously drive for optimizing working capital, costs and service and you oversee and deliver annual value improvements in the relevant sub-categories.
• You oversee and deliver selection strategies, processes and management of key suppliers.
• Your task is to measure and track performance of spend sub-category and define budgetary impact.
• You develop and manage relationships with key groups of business stakeholders.
• You manage the network of Territory representatives for activities or projects related to the specific sub-category.
• You coordinated and aligned methods with Supply Chain Team to continuously monitor and enhance sub-contract partners (and 3rd party vendors) in the Components category.

Profile:

• You have a relevant degree (Bachelor’s or equivalent).
• You have experience in procurement in an international environment.
• You are an effective and pro-active communicator across all mediums to a wide audience.
• You have very good analytical skills.
• You have good manufacturing inventory management experience in a high volume environment.
• You have demonstrated ability to think strategically and argue persuasively for a course of action.
• You are a strong problem solver and bring analytical expertise.
• You have project management skills.
• You are business fluent in English. 

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers
Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization
Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.
Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

Contact us
If you have questions or want to know more about the position, please contact Teppo Laakso, Manager Global Talent Acquisition via teppo.laakso@orbia.com. To apply, use the ‘apply’ button or e-mail your cover letter and English CV to Teppo.laakso@orbia.com.

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