Regional Category Manager

About this role

What will you be responsible for?

Reporting to the Director Regional Category Management (Americas), the Regional Category Manager is responsible for leading from “end to end” the development and execution of sourcing strategies for specific assigned goods and/or services categories across the region. This position will work closely with Asset Management, Inventory Control, Warehousing and Operations & Maintenance to provide consistent, efficient and effective processes and procedures and ultimately drive cost savings whilst also improving Total Cost of Ownership.

Business Segments addressed through Category Management include:
Consumables – Fuel, Lubricants, other energy categories, Reagents and other basic consumables used by the operations, which have strategic importance and high risk of criticality to operations.
HME: Dealers’ relations and support to the GCM.

In this role you will

Here is a snapshot of what your day to day will look like:

• Leads and handles the assigned categories sourcing and supplier relationships: Ultimately responsible for identification and support of realization tracking of cost savings and process/service improvement opportunities annually. 
• Leads the development and implementation of category procurement strategies for assigned categories regionally.
• Coordinates with the technical services and project teams in the region and with suppliers to evaluate assigned categories commercially and technically for all projects in the region.
• Provides technical assistance and project management to the projects and sites related to operational issues.
• Establishes relationships with internal and external customers as technical expert related to issues for assigned categories.
• Develops and handles technical documents, documents, business case documents, Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models, should cost and price discipline models for assigned categories as the need arises.
• Leads relevant commodity, service and product information necessary to recommend regional and local supply chain solutions; may liaise with external third party providers to provide business intelligence and build reports.
• Identifies, develops and fosters strategic customer and supplier relationships.
• Conducts internal customer requirement analysis to understand customers’ procurement needs and requirements and align these with corporate requirements.
• Responsible for awareness and adherence to First Nations Agreements and existing local community relationships in region as they relate to sourcing and procurement activities.
• Facilitating successful adoption of the Supplier Risk Management (SRiM) program with selected strategic vendors, including but not limited to tracking suppliers’ prequalification, onboarding, management plans, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) spend management, and any other metrics specific to the vendor performance.
• Develops, reviews, and analyzes data for management reports.
• Responsible for development of new contracts with suppliers and coordinating legal reviews; provides commercial recommendations/modifications for existing and developing contracts according to Corporate and regional guidelines.
• Maintains awareness of market trends, conditions and changing technologies to produce market intelligence reports to go out to the business.
• Establishes category priorities based on potential technical and commercials benefits and opportunities.
• Develops and records category performance metrics customer satisfaction metrics.
• Ensures that led categories are in compliance with all Newmont policies and procedures (including Supply Chain Management, Ethics, Health and Safety, and Environmental and Sustainability).
• Increase integration with Stage Gate process: Supports stage 1 – 5 stage gate process requirements and provides inputs and deliverables to get to operational readiness. Improves organizational effectiveness and human performance:
• Makes the overall corporation more effective and efficient, through an understanding of local cultural norms, political and social issues.
• Demonstrates and coaches “team values” to all employees to foster a teaming culture.

The above duties and responsibilities are representative of the nature and level of work assigned and are not necessarily all-inclusive.

Your training, skills & experience checklist

Here is what we would need to see from you!

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Accounting or related field or equivalent experience.

Experience:

Ten (10) years of directly related strategic sourcing & portfolio management experience or equivalent combination of training and experience are necessary. 
Mining experience strongly preferred.

Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated strong verbal and written communication skills. 
• Must have ability to effectively use Microsoft Word and Excel applications.
• Strong PC skills using MS office software.
• Knowledge of SAP, Ariba or equivalent enterprise level software packages is necessary.
• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills at all levels within organization and externally.

Working conditions & location

Where you will be located!

The preferred location for this position is our Denver Corporate Headquarters but qualified candidates in proximity to one of our operations or regional offices in North America are also encouraged to apply as remote options may be considered.  

Travel to domestic and international locations and sites required.