As a
Regional Category Manager, Americas
,
you will define and implement strategies for critical raw materials on a regional basis by creating strategies, negotiating key deliverables, and administering contracts that meet operational and functional business goals. Identifying opportunities to enable PPG growth and improve productivity while establishing a more sustainable footprint working are key areas of focus to support PPG's integral operation. Networking and collaborating skills are essential. The role is expected to deliver cost savings through competitive bids, negotiations, consolidation, program efficiency gains, cost reductions. Identifying and implementing opportunities to reduce the complexity of how PPG manages their raw materials and launches its Sustainability objectives is critical to PPG success.
This role is a highly visible position and will interact with the Americas Director of procurement and global Procurement. PPG's Procurement organization manages approximately 11B USD of spend.
As a
Regional Category Manager, Americas
,
you will define and implement strategies for critical raw materials on a regional basis by creating strategies, negotiating key deliverables, and administering contracts that meet operational and functional business goals. Identifying opportunities to enable PPG growth and improve productivity while establishing a more sustainable footprint working are key areas of focus to support PPG's global operation. Networking and collaborating skills are essential. The role is expected to deliver cost savings through competitive bids, negotiations, consolidation, program efficiency gains, cost reductions.



Identifying and implementing opportunities to reduce the complexity of how PPG manages their raw materials and launches its Sustainability objectives is critical to PPG success.
This role is a highly visible position and will interact with the Americas Director of procurement and global Procurement. PPG's Procurement organization manages approximately 11B USD of spend.
Key Responsibilities
Establish and align sourcing strategies by country, region for designated categories adhering to Category Manager best practices and implement the strategy.
Take responsibility to analyze markets and advise business partners in SBUs of + / - of each potential strategy, you will become PPG's expert on your category.
Master category area knowledge base, it's upstream source generation through downstream distribution outlooks for timely reactions to market changes to set PPG's strategic sourcing direction
Manage competitive contract negotiation or price bidding process for total ownership cost reduction, pay term extension and follow contract agreement approval and documentation process.
Develop innovative sourcing approaches using risk mitigating analytics to determine scenarios, benefits, risks and change management impact of each of those options.
Design, deploy and execute key sustainability performance objectives.
Provide monthly and ad hoc category forecasting & budget input plus Raw Material Index (RMI) forecasted outlooks to present to multiple information networks with PPG.




Update cost saving and working capital improvement projects into savings tracking systems, provide weekly report as per required format of designated material category on timely basis.
Share and support as appropriate to Procurement SBU Business Partner and Site Procurement Operation team market information, sourcing strategy, key projects and supplier performance and working capital improvement.
Other job tasks assigned by management.
Qualifications
A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Chemistry or science related field of study; an advanced degree such as an MBA or related field of study is desirable, as well as a minimum of 5+ years previous analytics, business, and/or procurement experience is required
Comfortable with coordination of global initiatives and navigating in a matrix organization across time zones and diverse cultures and working styles; ability to work across cultures and across diverse management styles
Sophisticated skills in MS Excel such as building BI, macros and automating reports and other complex computer and analytical skills are required
Others: Work proactively & independently and competently trouble shoot supply issues.
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