Global Category Lead

Vor 2 Tagen


Hamburg, Deutschland DNV Vollzeit

Local Unit & Position Description:
**GSS Real Estate & Procurement** (REM&Proc) delivers services out of two Global Centres and 9 Regional Offices.

**Procurement transformation**:
DNV’s procurement organization, REM&Proc, is currently undergoing a transformation in order to increase its maturity, professionalism and capabilities across indirect spend categories and geographies. A new vision and strategy for procurement has been developed resulting in that a new global procurement operating model is being implemented within DNV. A key part of this new operating model is related to new talent and in particular new talent related to the new Global Category Lead roles. These roles are essential for the new operating model and form a critical success factor for the procurement transformation.

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**Role description**:

- The global category lead role within GSS REM&Proc organization will have a far-reaching global mandate related to the category and an accountability across the processes in scope for the category
- The role takes a holistic, macro view on the category “**Insurance”** and manages it from a strategic life-cycle perspective
- The holistic view extends from demand management to category strategy development to management of all sourcing, purchasing and supplier management related to the category. In other words from identifying value to capturing value and sustaining value
- The strategy development scope includes supplier-, sourcing-, contract-, pricing-, and purchasing strategies
- The life-cycle perspective extends 3-5 years into the future
- The global category lead manages his/her category in a cross-functional manner through a category team consisting of relevant representatives from GSS REM/Proc (global and regional), business and other GSS functions and covers all aspects of the relevant category
- The global category lead will serve as a business partner to the business, be a good relationship builder, and have the ability to combine procurement, business, and technical (category specific) as well as strategic, tactical and operational considerations
- Reporting to the Global Category Lead Operations

**Key responsibilities**:

- Accountable for category performance and value delivery across processes and levers
- Lead cross-functional category team
- Analyze external category insights and internal category spend data
- Lead the development, documentation, and execution of category (value) strategies including:

- Supplier strategies
- Sourcing strategies
- Contracting strategies
- Pricing strategies
- Purchasing strategies
- Lead the development, documentation, execution and follow-up of annual category plans
- Develop, measure and report on category specific KPI’s
- Measure the performance and value delivered within the category
- Manage key suppliers within the category
- Support and steer Regional Managers within the category
- Support and steer Sourcing, contract and supplier experts within the category

**The category**:

- The global category lead needs to have sufficient domain knowledge related to the “Insurance”category he/she will be managing:

- A general understanding of the “**Insurance**” market and its market dynamics, market characteristics, market practices, market intelligence, and market supplier and contract structures (access, conclude category insights)
- A detailed understanding of the DNV Business´ **“Insurance”** needs
- A detailed understanding of DNV’s current and future “**Insurance**”scope of purchase, suppliers, contracts, pricing structures, and the supplier performance within the category
- An ability to analyze the category in detail and develop and execute **Insurance** specific category strategies including value strategies, supplier strategies, sourcing strategies, contract strategies, pricing strategies, purchasing strategies
- This would allow him/her to:

- Lead his/her category team and absorb and leverage the category expertise within this team
- Make the right procurement prioritizations and decisions balancing procurement, business and technical considerations to maximize the strategic value delivery for DNV from the “**Insurance**”category and otherwise optimize the spend with the **”Insurance”**category

Position Qualifications:
**Qualifications**:

- University level degree or above within engineering, economics, procurement or similar
- Typically 5-10 years of experience within procurement and 3-5 years of category management experience
- Experience specifically as Category Lead or Category Manager within **”Insurance”** beneficial.
- In addition to local language, excellent communication skills in English (oral and written)

**Characteristics of successful Category Leads**:

- A strategic profile
- Attention to detail and deadlines whilst maintaining focus on the "broader picture"
- Performance driven, have a strong interest for commercial aspects, engaged, curious and have a high level of professiona


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