Category Manager - Fabrication
Key Skills for This Role
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Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the global category strategy for fabrication, welded components, assemblies, and related services.
- Identify, evaluate, and qualify new suppliers based on capability, capacity, quality, cost, delivery, and technical requirements.
- Assess supplier manufacturing capabilities through audits, site visits, performance reviews, and technical evaluations.
- Partner with Engineering and Quality to establish WPSs, specifications, inspection requirements, and process controls.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing and Operations to ensure supplier capabilities align with production and customer requirements.
- Conduct market analysis and develop a competitive, resilient, and scalable supply base.
- Lead sourcing events, supplier negotiations, contract development, and commercial agreements.
- Drive cost reductions through competitive sourcing, value engineering, standardization, and continuous improvement.
- Establish and monitor supplier performance metrics for quality, delivery, cost, capacity, and responsiveness.
- Develop corrective-action and supplier-improvement plans when performance does not meet expectations.
- Identify and mitigate supply, capacity, quality, geopolitical, and business-continuity risks.
- Support the expansion of local fabrication capabilities in alignment with NOV’s localization strategy.
- Provide regular updates on category performance, sourcing initiatives, savings, supplier risk, and strategic priorities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business, operations management, or similar field. MBA or other post graduate training/certifications such as APICS or CPIM preferred.
- 10 years combined experience and education in Procurement or Supply Chain Management in a global, multi-site environment, preferably with experience in dealing with suppliers.
- Must be skilled in project management with demonstrated leadership ability.
- Experience developing or implementing WPSs and welding-related quality requirements.
- Knowledge of supplier quality systems, manufacturing standards, and process qualification.
- Experience supporting localization, regionalization, or supply-base development initiatives.
- Familiarity with ERP, sourcing, supplier-performance, and cost-analysis tools.
- Experience working in the oil and gas, energy, industrial equipment, or heavy manufacturing industries is preferred
About NOV
Provider of technology and equipment for the energy industry.
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