In September, Sonoco announced it is performing a strategic review of the Thermoforming Flexible Packaging (TFP) business unit. In order to support a newly formed global packaging company with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion, we are seeking a Category Manager that be responsible to ensure the business units have goods and services to operate at the most competitive cost.

In this role you directly affect TFP cost structure and will have a direct impact on profit and loss (P&L). You will lead the development of cost reduction, process improvement, and productivity projects. You will align with the business unit and identify, develop, and execute category strategies across their assigned area to ensure customers are supported at best value for TFP

What you’ll be doing:

• Create a clear vision and develop long term strategic plans for the specific category spend area to support overarching category plans.
• Ensure that the category strategies are highly aligned to current and future business needs (and overall category strategy) and that the supply base is aligned with and capable of supporting these strategies.
• Drive communication/reporting of strategy to keep internal clients informed of progress and benefits
• Identify and initiate focused projects (sourcing, demand management, etc.) and manage pipeline of projects within selected categories to ensure results meet targets
• Engage strategic sourcing team and tactical sourcing team to drive execution of projects in support of category strategies
• Lead supplier relationship management for strategic suppliers within category
• Define KPIs and Targets and manage scorecards
• Become subject matter expert in this functional area and provide commodity knowledge to internal clients on spend data, supply base, industry trends, benchmarking, and best practices
• Areas of focus will include, but not limited to, MRO, Services, IT, Packaging Supplies, and other indirect materials.

This position can be located in Hartsville, SC, Charlotte, NC or Chicagoland areas)

We’d love to hear from you if:

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Business, Operations or Supply Management; MBA preferred
• 5 or more years of experience in Supply Management or related Leadership.
• Annual spend is $150M-$200M

Compensation:

• The annual base salary range for this role is from $132,160 to $148,680, plus an annual target bonus of 12.5% of the base salary.