We believe that there is always a better way. This spirit drives us to provide leading edge technology, innovative and sustainable products, as well as best in class service to our customers around the globe.

That's where you come in – we believe our people make it happen. We provide a collaborative, inclusive and flexible work environment along with competitive compensation and comprehensive wellness & benefits programs.

Category Manager

Develop and implement direct material category and supplier strategies in line with Divisional and local procurement strategy. Establish critical supplier partnerships & relationships. Identify, drive and program manage supply chain transformation and supplier continuous improvement projects to deliver sustainable, agile and high performing supply base.

Supplier relationship management

• Develop high performing supply partners, with aligned business strategies and long-term sustainable performance
• Deploy performance management tools and techniques to create a continuous improvement culture
• Maintain awareness of supplier opportunities, risks, vulnerabilities and levers. Evolve strategies to exploit or mitigate
• Ensure continuity of supply as part of a structured escalation process

QCD supplier development to support Business objectives (OGSM)

• Identify and implement supplier development projects including VA/VE, lead time, waste reduction
• Responsibility for cost down projects and negotiated savings for defined categories and suppliers

Supplier agility & sustainability

• Lead risk assessment and develop mitigation plans through improving existing suppliers or developing new sources
• Actively monitor supplier health in multiple dimensions of supply continuity including financial, capacity, quality, compliance

Develop category knowledge & deploy category management processes

• Category analysis & part understanding to segment spend in relation to supply market
• Deploy cost modelling techniques to define should-cost
• Understand, mitigate or exploit impact of material commodity pricing
• Supply market research and benchmarking

Category and supplier strategies

• Application of portfolio analysis to understand supply market balance of power
• Identify spend areas of opportunity and risk, and projects to optimise
• Develop supply base knowledge, including supplier profiles, power structures, dynamics and competitors
• New supplier search and selection

Sourcing projects and program management

• Identify and execute projects to deliver the strategy and optimise category supply chain
• Project justification & resource planning, defining costs and benefits
• Internal stakeholder communication ensuring management buy in and cross functional support when needed
• Managing supplier expectations and risks due to change
• Seamless implementation, working closely with operations to avoid any interruption to production

Supply contracts & negotiation

• Deploy global contract framework with critical Partner suppliers. Establish appropriate legal and commercial foundation for long term supply, investment, cost reduction and new product developmen
• Technology and innovation
• Ensure category and supplier strategies support NPI roadmaps
• Drive early supplier engagement in Technology and innovation projects
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• Synergies
• Support cross divisional and VTBA procurement synergies
• Leverage best in class suppliers across regions and divisions
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• Processes and compliance
• Support deployment, compliance and evolution of VTBA Purchase to Pay procurement processes
• Ensure supply base compliance with AC Business Code of Practice and any related legal requirement.

About Us

We are a leading developer and manufacturer of sophisticated vacuum products, exhaust management systems and related value-added services. Our solutions are integral to manufacturing processes for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells. They are also used within an increasingly diverse range of industrial processes including power, glass and other coating applications; steel and other metallurgy; pharmaceutical and chemical; and for scientific instruments in a wide range of R&D applications.

We have over 4,000 employees worldwide engaged in the design, manufacture and support of high technology vacuum and exhaust management equipment. Edwards has state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Europe, Asia and North America.