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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

The Category Manager is responsible for leading strategic sourcing activities across all aspects of Archaea strategic spend. This includes taking strategic ownership of entire category and/or sub-category spend, developing strategies to drive the best pricing and commercial terms. This role will lead total cost of ownership reduction including vendor management, demand management, equipment standardization and governance/compliance to deliver savings. The Category Manager will coordinate sourcing efforts, drive RFQ process and supplier selection for assigned projects and execute sourcing initiatives. This will also involve partnering with functional stakeholders in Engineering, Project Management, Manufacturing, R&D, Operations and other functions to drive excellent service levels to the organization.• Develop and implement strategies within the assigned category, sub-category or project spend, including analysis of external markets.• Execute savings and cash targets through leveraged spend projects.• Lead complex commercial negotiations (pricing, payment terms, terms and conditions.)• Drive streamlined standard process for Capital purchases.• Develop strategic suppliers and purchase catalogues to reduce cycle time from demand identification to PO placement.• Work closely with Operations and Supply chain to initiate, lead and execute demand management initiatives (e.g., equipment standardization, catalogue opportunities identification, spare parts and service cost price reduction)• Oversee end-to-end Sourcing process: strategy, market analysis, negotiation process (RFXs), supplier selection and contract creation.• Drive value through supplier relationship management• Promote best practices, measure and track internal performance, monitor strategy implementation to ensure benefit realization within the assigned category spend.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Operations purchasing

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Develop, implement and manage programs to maximize the value of supplier relationships via ongoing monitoring, measurement and management of supplier performance• Handle all aspects of the procurement process for projects of moderate to high complexity including, but not limited to pre-qualification of potential suppliers, RFP issuance, proposal evaluation including complex pricing analysis and negotiation of resulting agreements• Identify cost savings opportunities through experience-based solutions focused on leveraging current and projected spend, product/service/supplier consolidation, analytics and market knowledge• Negotiate and prepare purchase orders of highly technical long lead engineered equipment in excess of 50 million dollars

Pittsburgh

• Read and evaluate technical drawings• Review terms and conditions established in purchasing contracts • Review quotes to ensure accuracy to bill of materials• Enter material requisitions for pipeline and compression projects into Oracle• Utilize surplus material when possible to reduce overhead cost and increase profit• Issue and track status of purchase orders• Meet with vendors and distributors to discuss value in their products and services• Manage and load purchase PO’s, MTR’s and other certification reports to shared drive• Act as liaison between the engineering department and the supply chain department

Canonsburg Pa

• Demonstrated high levels of organizational ability and leadership through managing the open orders report, keeping track of the status of manufacturing, shipping and customer satisfaction• Sourced products for clients and negotiated pricing • Maintain close working relationships with vendors and field locations to problem solve and to reconcile pricing and quantity discrepancies • Developed and maintained relationships with customers, vendors and manufacturers• Organized logistics from several locations to source material for customers in a timely manner• Managed inventory levels through reducing dead inventory and administering cycle counts to confirm accuracy• Gained extensive knowledge of oilfield products through managing multiple customer accounts• Meticulously entered sales orders to insured order accuracy from cradle to grave• Manage daily operations and update management with progress through weekly reports• Effectively trained co-workers• Reduced freight costs to maximize operating profit• Regulate inventory levels in order to achieve optimum inventory turnover

• Provided excellent service to people of all different types• Improved abilities to work well in teams and communicate effectively• Enhanced ability to successfully multitask and prioritize • Managed and maintained large work loads• Acquired ability to read guests and situations quickly

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.9

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations

Activities and Societies: Mock Trial, Spanish Club and Accounting Society

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration, Management And Operations