Category Manager 2 Strategic

Nouryon is a global, specialty chemicals leader. Markets and consumers worldwide rely on our essential solutions to manufacture everyday products, such as personal care, cleaning goods, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Furthermore, the dedication of approximately 7,650 employees with a shared commitment to our customers, business growth, safety, sustainability and innovation has resulted in a consistently strong financial performance. We operate in over 80 countries around the world with a portfolio of industry-leading brands.

Category Manager – Strategic

At Nouryon, our global team takes positive action every day, to reach higher collectively and individually. We create innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers to answer society’s needs – today and in the future.  

We are looking for team members who bring ideas forward, champion others and work together to do better. Does that sound like you? 

In your future role as a Category Manager – Strategic, you will

Develop procurement strategies at a regional category level for a total annual spend of 30-50 million USD of direct materials, leveraging value chain analysis to identify opportunities to optimize value across the supply base and align procurement decisions with business needs.

Actively engage with key stakeholders from relevant Business Lines and sites to understand business and technical requirements, incorporating them into the supplier selection and decision-making process while building long-term partnerships with key suppliers.

Explore cost reduction opportunities and establish a total cost of ownership approach internally and with external suppliers, actively working to improve commercial terms in line with the company’s financial objectives.

Identify, assess and mitigate supply risks within the category, including supply continuity, price volatility and supplier dependency risks, ensuring appropriate contingency measures are in place.

You will have the chance to work with various stakeholders across all levels of the organization. Amongst them is a mature procurement team, senior management teams and several site functions, and suppliers in North America. On top of that the opportunity to drive and contribute to regional and local continuous improvement projects.

You will be working in an international procurement team and reporting to the Regional Procurement Manager in Americas Region.

We believe you bring

• Bachelor or Masters Degree in a business-related area or industry, or equivalent work experience.


• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in strategic and operational procurement.


• Good understanding of regional chemical market dynamics and ability to apply critical thinking to develop effective procurement strategies that balance value with risk mitigation.


• Good negotiation skills.


• Ability to build and manage stakeholder relationships, ensuring smooth collaboration internally and externally.


• Good communication skills with the ability to engage people at all levels of the organization in a multicultural setting.


• Ability to resolve conflicts and building organizational alignment.


• Ability to apply value chain thinking to category strategy, identifying levers to create and capture value across the supply chain.


• Ability to identify and assess supply risks and define appropriate mitigation actions to ensure supply continuity and business resilience.


• Proficient with MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint


• Fluent in English. Additional languages are an asset. 


• Due to the nature of the job, travel (15 – 20 %), mainly within US.

Good to know
 

Please apply via our online recruitment system. We will not accept applications via e-mail. Once it's with us, we will review to see if we have a match between your skills and the role! For more information about our hiring process, visit: nouryon.com/careers/how-we-hire/  

We look forward to receiving your application! 

We kindly ask our internal candidates to apply with your Nouryon email via Success Factors.  
 

We encourage you as a valued Nouryon employee to share talents from your network to help us to bring in new talent through our new Employee Referral Program! Bringing new, skilled people with a great mindset is beneficial for both you and Nouryon. All info you need to make a referral is here. Join us in growing Nouryon!  

About Nouryon

If you’re looking for your next career move, apply today and join Nouryon’s worldwide team in providing essential solutions that our customers use to manufacture everyday products such as personal care, cleaning, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Our employees are driven by the wish to make an impact and actively drive positive change. If that describes you, we will gladly make way for your ambitions. From day one we support you with your personal growth, through challenging positions and comprehensive learning and development opportunities, in a dynamic, international, diverse, and proactive working environment. 

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Nouryon is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

Nouryon is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.