Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
Role Summary:
The Category Manager is responsible for developing and executing category strategies that deliver sustainable value, cost optimisation, risk mitigation, and supplier performance improvement across assigned spend categories. This role combines strategic sourcing, market intelligence, stakeholder engagement, and performance analytics to ensure alignment with business objectives and longterm growth.
The successful candidate will act as the commercial owner of their categories, driving value beyond price through innovation, resilience, and total cost of ownership.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement endtoend category strategies aligned with business, operational, and financial goals.
- Analyse spend, market dynamics, and supply risks to identify costsaving, valuecreation, and resilience opportunities.
- Lead strategic sourcing activities including RFPs, negotiations, supplier selection, and contract implementation.
- Together with Supplier Managers, support the management of supplier relationships, performance reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Partner closely with internal stakeholders (Business Units, Procurement, Quality and Supplier Management) to align category plans with business needs.
- Drive contract compliance negotiations and implementation, ensuring value realization from negotiated agreements.
- Identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, localization, dual sourcing, or innovation.
- Monitor and report category KPIs including cost savings, cost avoidance, supplier performance, risk exposure, and service levels.
- Ensure adherence to procurement policies, ethical standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Support transformation initiatives such as digital procurement tools, supplier rationalisation, or ESG objectives.
Requirement:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field
- 10+ years experience in category management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain roles.
- Proven experience leading supplier negotiations and managing complex categories.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into actions.
- Experience working with ERP systems and spend analytics tools (e.g. SAP, Oracle, Power BI).
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
- Experience in Instrumentation or Electronics category
Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.
Req ID : R-18660
Job Family Group : Supply Chain
Job Family : Category Management
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