Category Manager - Under tillsättning eller tillsatt, ej sökbar

We are looking for an experienced and result-driven Category Manager Fasteners to develop a world class supplier base.

Your key focus will be to develop the category and the supplier base.

Main responsibilities

• Set up a global sourcing strategy for the assigned category
• Drive strategy implementation steering lead buyers in the category team
• Develop the supplier base according to the customer requirements to support growth of Bufab
• Take the lead in managing global suppliers in the category
• Develop cost models for different manufacturing processes
• Negotiate global contracts and price lists with preferred suppliers
• Build trust towards our sister companies to remain a long-term relationship
• Coordinate with our sister companies on projects and report regularly to the Business Unit Sourcing Director on progress and target achievement

About you

You are a business leader with broad experience of production and assembly who understands the requirements to drive the business forward. Previous experience of global business and to support multi-functional projects in an international work environment with remote locations are required to succeed in this role. You need to be willing to travel extensively in Europe and Asia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Masters’ degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain
• 10 years’ experience in an international sourcing organization
• Excellent and driven negotiator
• Good communicator and able to make yourself understood at any level of the business
• Positive mindset, with a strong interest in developing relationships with stakeholders
• Entrepreneurial and with a “solutionist” mindset
• Action and goal-oriented team player with a high degree of self-management
• Fluency in English required, other languages meritorious

Other

Your location could be in any of our offices in Värnamo, Gothenburg or Täby.

For further information or questions please contact the recruiting manager, Maria Götesson, Sourcing Director BU Nordic, maria.gotesson@bufab.com, +46 725 77 69 96.

Please register your application as soon as possible but latest the 19th of June.

Please use this link to register your application: https://bufab.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:516851/?lang=se

Bufab’s business is about dedication, speed, and trust. We deliver solutions, not products. We are a large family of strong entrepreneurs with big hearts, and we believe in personal initiative locally to drive the business forward. We are dedicated to always deliver our customers’ C-Parts needs and we believe in global teamwork using the Bufab Best Practice to provide the best solutions for our customers. Or as we say: we are Solutionists.

Today, we are over 2000 team members in 28 countries. Our team members are what make our success. We offer freedom, responsibility, and development opportunities within a highly international and entrepreneurial company. At the same time, Bufab retains a lot of the down-to-earth and personable feeling that we have had, since our foundation in 1977. Read more about us: www.bufab.com.