Category Lead

Who are we?
At OSI Maritime Systems, we pride ourselves on delivering world-class navigation and bridge systems. With decades of experience serving military customers, we remain at the forefront of innovation in the maritime industry. Our collaborative and dynamic environment ensures every team member contributes to advancing marine safety and operational excellence. With a global presence, we are proud to have offices in Canada, UK, Taiwan, Australia and Germany.
The Role
The Category Lead 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.
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.

You Bring
- 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 environments, preferably in manufacturing or product development of industrial, commercial, or electronic products. (Marine experience an asset)

Why work for OSI?
- Collaborative Culture: Work with a talented and supportive team that values innovation and teamwork.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: OSI is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute their best.
- Growth Opportunities: We invest in our employees' professional development and career growth with an annual employee driven development program.
- Competitive Benefits: Enjoy health, dental, RSP, vacation and a healthy work-life balance environment

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