Category Lead

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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that’s where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:

- Our Supply Chain function is integral to keeping the business running and the lights on. We’re

transforming our Supply Chain through the implementation of a full category management
capability to better meet the business’ requirements for quality, safety and reliability in what we
buy for the best total cost and to ensure mutually beneficial supplier relationships.
- As the Operations & Enterprise (O&E) Supply Chain group, we’re accountable to develop and

implement strategies for the key products and services spend categories that account for over
80% of BC Hydro’s annual $2 billion expenditures. Categories are organized into five portfolios:
Enterprise, Major Equipment, Engineering & Technical Services, Materials & Logistics, and Field
Support Services.
- Our category strategies enable us to be smart about what and how we buy from whom, and in

how we work with our suppliers, in order to deliver on BC Hydro’s vision, mission and corporate
priorities. One of our priorities is enabling the shift to use of electricity to help with greenhouse gas
(GHG) reductions and support BC’s GHG emission target reductions. This will require building
infrastructure from more distribution lines to electric vehicle charging stations. To make this
happen BC Hydro can’t do it alone - we need more suppliers and to procure products and
services. We are looking for multiple Category Leads to support electrification and various
technical categories.
- The mission of the CL is to ensure their categories are meeting performance objectives in

support of BC Hydro’s goals and priorities. To do this the CL operates like an overall 'owner/
manager' of the category and is an expert both in understanding the external category
environment (suppliers and market) and in BC Hydro’s internal drivers and requirements for the
category. CL’s leads cross-functional teams to develop and implement category strategies and are
responsible for planning and actively assessing, communicating, and managing category
performance.
- Throughout the category management lifecycle, they directly perform and/or project manage:
strategy development, sourcing, business process improvements, supplier relationship
management (SRM), benefits realization and provide support on contract management. Key to
their success is building and managing relationships across internal business groups,
stakeholders and suppliers, and being proficient at organizing and managing across projects and
constraints to ensure sourcing, SRM, contract management and business process improvement
plans are integrated effectively.

teams, and having mutually beneficial supplier relationships. They are pro-active and take
ownership. They are adept at creating and using influence where they do not have control. They
have expertise managing cross functional teams and projects gained working in a complex

executing value add category, supplier or similar business strategies to achieve specific business
outcomes.
- Our profile person is a blend of strategic and pragmatic with a project management orientation:
able to create longer-term strategic plans and able to organize and manage the multiple near-term

will be team players, collaborators with a growth mindset, and able to stay calm and focused in
pressured situations. They calibrate their excellent communications and facilitation skills to
engage people at all levels to work effectively towards desired outcomes. Their ability to listen and
connect the dots allows them to understand, prioritize and integrate business, technical and
market trends and requirements to drive business strategies. It is vital that they are able to
understand and are comfortable with changing and complex business contexts and adapt their

understand what leadership means in the context of their role and within BC Hydro, and they’re
open to learning and evolving their leadership.
High Level Outcomes
- Ensures assigned categories are operating in a way that meets performance objectives and in

alignment with approved strategies. This includes ensuring plans are in place to manage risks and
anticipate future trends,