Category Specialist - ROC

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.

As a Category Specialist you will performing 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 GSCS Manager and while this is a remote position, we would like you in or around Pittsburgh, PA

Key Responsibilities:

- You will support WBS 4, 5, and 8 (Mechanical Equipment) Category Team for Energy Systems Team.

- Support efforts to develop nuclear qualified suppliers and acts as primary liaison between the Category Team and suppliers – includes travel (10-20%), domestic and international.

- Provide support to AP1000 project team for supply chain related activities outside of WBS 4, 5, and 8.

- You will 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.

- Track 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 Category Managers in development of several program presentations including supplier relationship management, transformation progress, QBRs, Deep Dives, weekly High/Low lights reviews, and preferred supplier analysis.

- Daily support across CM team solving business issues and analysis.

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

- Enters and Manages Purchase Orders in SAP.

- Responsible for contract life cycle management of specific commodity codes.

- Negotiation of Westinghouse preferred terms and conditions with supply base.

- 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 regularly to ensure critical supplier invoices are paid on time.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in business ideal.

- 2 years experience Supply Chain administration.

- SAP familiarity.

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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