Global Category Management

John Cockerill, enablers of opportunities

Driven since 1817 by the entrepreneurial spirit and thirst for innovation of its founder, the John Cockerill Group develops large-scale technological solutions to meet the needs of its time: facilitating access to low carbon energies, enabling sustainable industrial production, preserving natural resources, contributing to greener mobility, enhancing security and installing essential infrastructures. 

Its offer to businesses, governments and communities consists of services and associated equipment for the sectors of energy, defence, industry, the environment, transports, and infrastructures. With over 6,000 employees, John Cockerill achieved a turnover of € 1,209  billion in 2023 in 29 countries, on 5 continents.

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Job Purpose

The Global Category Manager is responsible to manage their supplier commodity panel with a strong financial QCD performance orientation 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop the regional and global strategies of the panel under their responsibility. Enforce group and local conditions as required


• Develop and present the short / medium / long term action plan of their commodity that meets the objectives of the Industry Procurement performance strategy


• Provide market data on their category for the Sector


• Global reference for the Sector on their categories


• Accountable to present Category Roadmap up to date on 6M Rolling base


• Coordinate volume /planned productivity discounts for their global commodity panel


• Participate actively in the budget preparation of their commodity savings performance


• Participate actively in the LTP and budget preparation with regional Procurement Heads and Industry CPO


• Review supplier performance monitoring (scorecard, escalations, panel inputs/outputs)


• Develop and maintain the relationship with key panel suppliers, develop John Cockerill C-Levels associated at supplier’s


• Lead and propose cost optimization actions including VAVE, Make or Buy and other levers as needed.  Manage the associated negotiations and lead the Sourcing coordination


• Develop savings actions road map for the panel under their responsibility and share / support the Lead Buyers community associated on savings actions


• Animate the Lead Buyers community associated on their categories and project


• Manage annual and globalization negotiations


• Finalize the project buyer’s negotiation (level 2) when needed


• Provide project buyers with a structured panel for their Category


• Support management of series crisis actions (supply of product, quality issues, etc.)


• Ensure the conformity / validity of purchasing data recorded in ERP and reported in iValua


• Other duties as assigned

Education & Experience

• Master in Business and or Engineering with emphasis or experience in Procurement or equivalent; and 10 years procurement with manufacturing, engineering related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience


• 3 to 5 years of strong technical experience with Metals and Industry business


• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Must be able to assess reasonableness of the analysis performed

Background, Skills and Competencies

• Must have good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate with Engineering; Procurement, Top Management and other plant and office personnel


• Strong negotiation skills, ability to bear under pressure


• Practical expertise in office systems such as Excel and ERP tools such as SAP and Ivalua (e.g. purchasing - projects)


• Customer orientation, concern to offer a permanent quality service to internal clients,


• At ease in a matrix organization and a support department


• Analytical mindset, ability to formalize, structure and great rigor in work


• Agility in a changing professional environment


• Diplomacy, good communication skills, both oral and written, and ease in dealing with all types of interlocutors


• Very good team spirit and willingness to contribute to the team


• Reliability, integrity, honesty, discretion


• Comfortable with an international environment and multicultural aspects


• Fluency in English, both written and spoken. Fluency in other languages is a plus

John Cockerill offers you career and development opportunities within its various sectors in a friendly working environment. 

Do you want to work for an innovative company that will allow you to take up technical challenges on a daily basis?

We look forward to receiving your application and to meeting you!

Discover our job opportunities in details on www.johncockerill.com