Sr Manager of EII Category Management

Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion.

Reporting to the EII Procurement Director, you as a Senior Manager of Category Management, will be responsible for leading the EII Category Management team. Role is designed as a working manager role, candidate will take direct responsibility for one key category as well as managing a small team of five direct reports. Role is has global category management responsibility for materials consumed at all EII facilities globally.

Key responsibilities include: Setting category strategy, maintaining AVL, lead
sourcing, commercial negotiation, supplier management, and supporting special initiatives as necessary.

About Your Job:

• Manage Category Management Team inclusive of team structure, staffing, and people management. 35%

• Manage category strategy and work with cross-functional team to implement strategy on different product lines, consolidate and renationalize our global supplier base, transfer more spend/allocation to strategic suppliers; 20%

• Manage suppliers in cost, quality, delivery and service to ensure the competitiveness of Littelfuse (including price and commercial terms negotiation), regular business review with strategic suppliers, drive actions for poor performance suppliers.20%

• Develop and execute annual cost reduction plan (including VeVa projects and negotiation) to achieve annual cost reduction targets with cost model implementation, work with engineering team to implement cost saving projects on time; nego payment term to ensure competitive DPO. 15%

• Monitor industry trends, rules, performance, market conditions; collection of market, competitors’ status and information analysis. Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver the market intelligence, industry insight. 10%

About You:

• 10+ years of experience in procurement, especially focused on category management.

• 10+ years experience with manufactured products (industrial end markets experience preferred).

• Experienced developing strong, mutually beneficial relationships with key stakeholders.

• Ability to analyze and interpret multiple sets of data and work out concise, insightful analysis

• Skilled in sourcing process, contracting and negotiation.

• Ability to think deeply when analyzing the data and presenting the result.

• Experience setting category strategy and applying strategy setting models such as Porters 5 forces, SWOT analysis, AT Kearney Chessboard, etc.

• Ability to interact and engage with peers with good communication skills.

• Able to work independently and under pressure as well as be a strong team player, always seeking to improve team and organizational performance.

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