Global Logistics Category Manager Castrol

Data led management of end-to-end category performance by working with the organization to understand demand and ensure strategies that can be implemented effectively across teams.

• Skillfully navigates Castrol's multifaceted operational frameworks, guaranteeing consistent strategy delivery and uninterrupted supply flow to make procurement easier for suppliers and partners to work with.
• Consider regional factors like laws, taxes, and market conditions in category management planning.
• Cultivates purpose-driven partnerships and robust supplier relationships to navigate business challenges and unlock triple bottom line (people, profit & planet) value

Implement transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value. Ensure supplier performance, in a dynamic business environment, and implement change across diverse partner landscapes.

• Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation
• Partner with internal teams to drive category excellence
• Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption

Work within a team of category managers, embracing culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement. Acts as an SME and advocate for their category, sharing category knowledge across teams to ensure business needs are met.

• Builds category knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure strategy execution
• Develops their technical capabilities in order to deliver category operational excellence
• Adopts accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and collaboration with both suppliers and partners
• Cultivate an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation

Uses storytelling to communicate with team members and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities.

• Leads and influences through complexity and ambiguity, handling virtual relationships with partners in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments
• Unites diverse partners, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges
• Builds relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to stakeholders
• Prepares documentation and relevant partner communication to enable key decision forums

Knowledge of category management principles and experience in undertaking procurement processes and developing category strategies.

• An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through to execution in the businesses / assets
• Strong experience in logistics category across transportation, warehouse operations, freight forwarding, last-mile delivery and related sub-categories.
• Ability to manage large global spend portfolio across multiple countries.

Stakeholder management and influencing skills in order to develop a deep understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and their priorities, including long term objectives.

• An ability to quickly develop an understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and its objectives
• Knowledge of procurement within a complex multinational business
• Knowledge in relevant procurement categories with an understanding of the market's dynamics and its influence on procurement strategies

An SME in the relevant category, who shares knowledge with the wider team and implements the strategy. Collaborates across procurement, the businesses, suppliers and beyond to achieve their categories goals.

• Experience in leading initiatives internationally, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing agile/flexible approaches
• An advocate for our code, they incorporate the Operating Management System (OMS) and our safety leadership principles into strategies and everyday work

The role requires analytical thinking to develop and evaluate solutions, as well as judgement to translate business requirements into actionable plans.

• Adopts industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneers innovative solutions whilst managing risk
• Develop strong supplier relationships, bringing multiple parties together to collaboratively solve complex business problems
• Translates business requirements into a strategic category plan
• Uses critical thinking to make informed strategic decision

Strong interpersonal skills are essential for collaborating with the category team, engaging with global, diverse partners, communicating impact-fully across organizational levels and managing change effectively.

• Networking and influencing skills to ensure buy in and adoption
• Regular interaction with external suppliers and representing Castrol externally
• Effective change management
• Persevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change

• A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the demeanor of giving back to our environment are highly valued
• Possibility to join our social communities and networks
• Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
• Life and health insurance, medical care package
• And many other benefits!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform crucial job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment.