POSITION SUMMARY
The Procurement Category Coordinator/Analyst’s main responsibility is to support the Category procurement function. This includes data maintenance on trade agreements, creation of items, preparation of supplier contracts and maintaining and updating important supplier documents such as certificates and material safety data sheets. The support also includes setting up items so that inbound supply chain in Wrist runs smooth and that forecasting created to key suppliers with volume agreements.
The Category Coordinator role also includes go to market preparation such as assortment cleanup, spend calculations, forecasting and creation of negotiation packages. He/She also helps to analyze spend data for cost savings opportunities.
SPECIFIC MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Efficient use of procurement processes and tools, fix benchmarking tools, Scan market, item mapping, redirects, cost modelling, rapid package. A new category coordinator will need to learn the tools used in Wrist but it is important that a candidate are capable and willing to learn and onboarded in a good way so they over time can be masters in these processes supporting the category managers.
- Data maintenance including phase in, TA maintenance, supplier contract preparation and reporting. One of the main priority for a coordinator is to maintain the data related to ongoing activities in the category manager team. They are to a large extent, doing the leg work before and after a category activity.
- Coordinators will analyse category spend prior to tenders, actions or negotiations. Part of this involves making mapping and redirects of duplicate and equivalent products and thereby preparing the category for the strategic initiatives that will be driven by the Category Manager. It is absolute crucial being able to understand the full business impact of whatever strategic initiatives that a category coordinator executes in a holistic manner.
