Category Lead

7 months ago

Burnaby, Canada OSI Maritime Systems Full time

About Us

The Role
The incumbent will be focused on developing, implementing, and administering the Category Management function for a select group of categories within OSI’s Supply Chain. This role is accountable for establishing a category management strategy based on available data that will effectively support OSI’s current and future purchased products and services. Activities include analyzing data, strategic sourcing, conducting competitive procurements, contract negotiation/management and vendor performance management. Objectives will include improving OSI’s current purchasing function and business processes with a focus on increasing efficiency and driving adding value initiatives through OSI’s supply chain. The incumbent will work closely with other OSI departments, including Accounting, Project Management Office, Proposals, Engineering, Production and Customer Support to ensure the provision of timely Supply Chain support. The incumbent will be required to ensure that OSI’s commercial interests are protected by observing all applicable laws and regulations, maintaining proper records related to contractual obligations, and following corporate policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities
- Accountable to support the development and implement long-term supply strategies for purchased parts critical to OSI's core product offerings.
- Identify a supply strategy based on a category management model, strategically source, select, and support the negotiation, and execution of long-term supply contracts.
- Ability to lead categories of supply from tip to tale including but not limited to understanding programmatic requirements, demand analytics, strategic sourcing, order management, deep stakeholder collaboration, risk management and continuous improvements.
- Conduct contract management of complex supply contracts, leveraging supplier performance management best practices.
- Support and lead aspects of the negotiation of complex supply contracts, understand key terms and conditions and ability to create a negotiation strategy/plan to arrive at a mutually beneficial executed agreement.
- Strategically source new potential suppliers, lead the evaluation, and qualify capabilities which may involve visiting supplier facilities.
- Ensure supplier relationships maintain focus on achieving OSI's strategic objectives and support product delivery while maintaining a positive and mutually beneficial outcome to support supply chain longevity. This includes measuring supplier success through KPIs, setting targets, facilitating continuous improvements, and completing supplier scorecards.
- Collaborate closely with PMO, Production and Support to understand organizational requirements, release, and schedule purchase orders to support programmatic and production requirements and OSI's inventory management strategy.
- Manage the return of defective material to OEMs and suppliers and be responsible for timely disposition of materials that require vendor repairs or replacement, including returns through the Material Review Board process.
- Maintain and enforce supply chain governance documentation which may include policies, procedures, and work-instructions. This includes ensuring that all purchase requisitions are complete and properly approved; and that corporate procedures for agreement review, authorization, execution, recording, and filing are followed.
- Produce periodic statistical reporting and KPI's, as required.
- Develop and maintain detailed knowledge of category products.
- Knowledge of ERP/MRP systems, theoretical and practical understanding of Material Requirements Planning and how to leverage system functionality to provide efficient and accurate supply chain practices.
- Determine the optimum range and scale of inventory holding to support OSI’s customer contracts including system delivery and in-service support obligations.
- Balance inventory between multiple distribution centers by analyzing the inventory requirement in each location and determining optimum inventory movement strategies.
- Assist and mentor junior team members on category management philosophies including, but not limited to, strategic sourcing, conducting competitive procurements, contract negotiation/management and vendor performance management.

You Bring

**Education/ Experience**:

- A university degree in an appliable discipline with a minimum of five years of progressive experience in Supply Chain Management roles or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Certification or Designation in Supply Chain Management preferred, such as: CPIM, SCMP, CPSM, P.Log etc.
- Experience working with complex processes, standards and specifications in areas such as lean manufacturing, ISO, JIT and MRP/ERP (experience with Epicor is an asset).
- Experience managing Purchase Orders, supplier contracts, RFX and vendor scorecards.
- Experience conducting procurements and managing supply contracts in engineering/technical

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