Do you enjoy leading a team and developing new and creative ways to drive improvement through strategies and initiatives around service, quality, and cost? If you do, Delta Faucet Company has an excellent opportunity for you to join our Indianapolis corporate Supply Chain team!

Purpose:

Lead a team of commodity professionals to achieve company objectives through directing all aspects of strategy development, supplier performance metrics, pricing negotiations and agreements, initiative execution, employee coaching and mentoring, etc. In addition, creates a professional and collaborative relationship with internal stakeholders and external suppliers. This role reports to the Director of Global Sourcing and Supplier Development.

Responsibilities:

As a Category Manager within Delta Faucet Company, you will have direct influence over sourcing strategies deployed globally to enable world class service, cost, quality and working capital returns.

• Establishing the vision of the category through development of commodity strategies and execution of action plans for a diversified global supply base
• Team Training & Development
• Works closely with cross-functional areas of quality, value management, engineering, marketing, operations and finance to ensure alignment and execution to maximize the company’s goals while proactively minimizing internal conflicts
• Implements cost savings using various tools such as: value management, competitive bidding, outlier analysis, creating competition, supplier development and improvements
• Keeps current with ongoing changes with VAT laws, currency changes, commodity changes, and code changes required to protect the company’s assets in an always changing market
• Builds a proper relationship with suppliers that should be maintained in order to bring in products that consistently meet or exceed Delta’s supplier performance goals.
• Assures awards are done per strategy and assures the best total cost of all new NPD projects
• Oversees supplier on time delivery, defective parts per million, lead time, and PPAP approval metrics and related business practices (i.e. business continuity/risk)
• Leads efforts for early-stage R&D or front-end projects to assure supplier compliance and capabilities
• Supports related cross-functional supply chain and service activities
• Assures compliance and auditing of department standard work
• Completes timely and successfully on special projects and ad-hoc management requests

Education & Experience:

• The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor's degree with an emphasis in Supply Chain, Purchasing, Engineering, Operations or related field.
• 5+ years of working experience in related field(s) above
• 3+ years of management / leadership experience in developing team members
• Proficient use of SAP (or equivalent ERP), Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent negotiation, problem solving and communication skills
• Understanding of continuous improvement tools (Lean, Six Sigma)
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively in a cross functional team setting

Diversity & Inclusion:

At Delta Faucet Company, we view diversity as a mosaic of thoughts and perspectives that come from people’s varied cultural backgrounds, experiences, education, career paths and other influences that make each of us unique. For us, inclusion means welcoming differing opinions, collaborating, allowing people to come to work as who they are and recognizing everyone’s contributions. We know that in a diverse, inclusive company, ideas flow freely, all voices are heard and all perspectives are valued. Delta Faucet Company continuously strives to be this kind of organization. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) supports our inherent values, makes us more relevant to customers and consumers and inspires innovation. It is not a goal or a program; it is a vital ingredient in our formula for success and a key to our future growth.

Company: Delta Faucet Company

Delta Faucet Company (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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