Logistics Category Manager

Why work for Lafarge?:
As the global leader in innovative and sustainable building materials, we’re committed to shaping a
**greener**,
**smarter** and
**healthier** world. At Lafarge Canada Inc.,
**safety** comes first,
**collaboration** matters and
**diversity** is celebrated with people who share our desire to continually
**make our materials better.**

Do you have the drive, the skills, and the passion to join us?

Overview:
Support Lafarge Eastern Canada by maximizing benefits associated with the strategic sourcing within the Logistics Category. The portfolio consists of all transportation modes (Truck / Rail / Maine) across all markets within Easter Canada. This management level role, will be responsible for delivering optimal cost and efficiencies to improve profitability and leverage size, volumes and innovation with suppliers, through know how, strong expertise and credibility in the category. Extensive collaboration with the Regional Category Manager of Logistics for North America and the various logistics mangers across the company will be critical to the success of this role.

**Responsibilities**:

- Act as the procurement lead for all logistics modes across ECAN (Cement truck Haulage / Aggregate Haulage / Raw Material Vessels / Cement Vessels / Inbound Raw Material for cement plants
- Be the procurement lead on all logistics systems initiatives (Tread, etc.)
- Under the leadership of Head of Procurement, support the realization of savings, supply efficiency, quality, and process improvements in Country, in line with regional and global strategies
- Identify saving opportunities and initiatives in assigned product lines or geographical area.
- Negotiate in close coordination with the various Procurement Managers for local volumes, processes, quality levels and prices.
- Develop and maintain relationships with internal senior stakeholders (such as Managers, Directors and VP’s), key suppliers and third party sourcing partners to enable accelerated achievement of business objectives.
- Bring a high level of professionalism and analytics to this critical role.
- The ability to benchmark and standardize logistics activities and costs
- Lead cross functional teams through supplier selection and recommendation activities including: qualitative and quantitative analysis, selection criteria, RFI and RFP development and analysis.
- Support achievement of benefit targets and ensure targets and Key Performance Indicators are achieved on a set portfolio of spend categories.
- Achieve targets for strategic sourcing activities; spend coverage, compliance rates and benefits generation, track implementation, compliance and benefits against targets.
- Drive, develop and execute negotiation strategy with suppliers while managing supplier performance on a structured basis.

**Tasks**:

- Maintain close business relationships with the Regional Category Manager of Logistics and local management to anticipate procurement needs and take appropriate action to ensure optimized cost of goods and services.
- Identify potential cost savings, spend reduction, supplier consolidation and standardization opportunities in assigned Category
- Ensure global & local policies and procedures are conveyed to end users in the Procurement of goods and services.
- Drive, develop and execute negotiation strategy with suppliers while managing supplier performance on a structured basis.
- Conduct and Lead RFQ/RFPS processes according to procurement policies.
- Measure performance through KPI’s according to existing templates.
- Work closely with legal and operations on the implementation of key contracts within the category
- generated savings are reported as required, and according to category guidelines.
- Track achieved results.

**Relationship with Other Jobs**:

- Internal_:_
- Operational Management (e.g. plant managers, operations managers, GM)
- ABS
- Operational Procurement
- Global and Regional Procurement - participates in Global & Regional initiatives.
- Communicates those initiatives to the local teams and ensures compliance.
- External_:_
- Vendors

**Dimensions**:

- External annual spend of $300M+

Qualifications:
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Education: _**
- University Degree in Business or Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

**_ Experience and Skill Set:_**
- Understanding of business drivers in local market area product lines.
- More than five years in procurement role (category management, sourcing, operations) with exposure to supply chain management and/or logistics, strategic sourcing and optimal procurement processes and standards, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated performance in working within cross-functional teams, with requisite drive and energy.

**_ Technical/Functional Skills:_**
- Ability to write procurement contracts
- Ability to understand the technical aspects of LafargeHolcim product lines from a procurement perspective.
- Excellent computer skills.

**_ Leadership & Manageri