Category Specialist

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

About the role:

As a Category Specialist, you will perform important activities to assure supply continuity across specific commodities. You will deliver cost, quality, delivery, and reliability to reach organizational goals. Support for monitoring active projects, updating status, eliminating roadblocks, and escalating issues.

You will report to the Director, Global Category Management. Fully Remote role.

Key Responsibilities:

- Conduct business analysis of spend from PowerBI and other tools. Provide insights into the drivers of spend history and possible effects to future spend projections using SIOP plan.

- Track our performance against metrics of payment terms, on-time delivery, productivity, inflation, price variance, commodity changes, and other business critical metrics to share with Procurement Leadership.

- Support Procurement Program Managers (PPM), Commodity Managers (CM), and Senior Procurement Leaders in development of multiple program presentations including supplier relationship management, transformation progress, QBRs, Deep Dives, weekly High/Low lights reviews, and preferred supplier analysis.

- Daily support across PPM and CM teams solving business issues and analysis.

- Lead MDI (manage for daily improvement) activities to improve with Procurement Teams

- Perform competitive analysis with RFI, RFP, and RFQ development including assess results, document recommendations, and help communicate results to vendors and team members

- Work with Senior Leadership to develop analytic tools to support Category Strategy, Category Leadership, and Procurement projects.

- Research, track and communicate industry trends, best practices, applicable indices, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities for innovation, competitive advantage, and increased productivity

- Track receipts and payment price of certain commodities to ensure critical supplier invoices are paid.

- Develop a productive working relationship with peers on other teams: Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Procurement

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

- 3+ years of experience in procurement

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Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being. In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

- Competitive Salary

- Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits

- Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members

- 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match

- Paid Vacations and Holidays

- Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements

- Educational Reimbursement Program

- Employee Referral Program

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

- Safety and Quality

- Integrity and Trust

- Customer Focus and Innovation

- Speed and Passion to Win

- Teamwork and Accountability

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 11,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities