Sr Manager Procurement-China

About Kennametal

With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2.1 billion in revenues in fiscal 2023. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Responsibilities:

•     Lead Purchase requisition to purchase order conversion for the region supporting Direct Material, Indirect Services, and Custom Project Orders.
•     Lead development, communication, and performance monitoring for supply base.  Coordinate with cross functional stakeholder to meet deliver, quality, cost, lead time, and inventory targets for supply base.  
•     Attract, develop, retain, and lead performance improvement actions to manage talent.
•     Interface with regional sourcing leaders on drive system and process standards.  Identify and manage projects to drive performance and efficiency improvement coordinating with sourcing transformation team.
•     Provide regional leadership for purchasing process performance and optimization for Kennametal.  
•     Lead the optimization of tactical purchasing tasks from sourcing, plant buyers and support operations to maximize performance and minimizing the cost to serve the business.
•     Execute to the global category strategies and promote with cross functional stakeholders.  Provide input to the global category strategies to drive continuous improvement and risk reduction.
•     Provide sourcing leadership with operations and the business teams.  Act as the first escalation point for sourcing and procurement execution issues.  Engage category managers, supplier quality and sourcing leadership as appropriate for systemic or critical issue resolution.

Requirements:

•     Bachelor and/or master within a relevant field of study (Business, Supply Chain, Engineering). 
•     Experience in supply chain or relevant discipline in a manufacturing environment preferred.
•     Proven track record within strategic procurement and/or category management (+10 years). 
•     SAP or other ERP system usage experience.
•     5 years or greater of team leadership experience; Advanced people management skills.
•     Motivated by leading negotiations. Goal-oriented and proactive. Strong communication skills.
•     Business Acumen – Driven by entrepreneurship.  Able to set priorities and establish priorities.  This role provides a unique opportunity to develop and manage a key commodity area. 
•     Business Performance Measurement – Ability to understand internal business processes, external market segments, establish strategic direction and business objectives, and gain alignment with cross-functional stakeholders. 
•     Customer Relationship Management - Understands organization of internal customer groups, key users and characteristics of these customers. Drives to understand customer requirements and uses this information as an input to create effective strategies and reach timely decisions to foster mutually beneficial customer relationships.
•     Data Management – Skilled in analytics; able to maintain key data, leverage raw data to organize and prioritize information for decision making.
•     Project Management – Designs, plans and manages projects to deliver value-added solutions within defined time and cost parameters.
•     Financial Analysis – Able to create cost savings scenario summaries and track purchase price performance to commodity markets to differentiate between cost movement due to commodity markets versus supply chain improvement.  Understand financial concepts including invoicing, accounts payable and other financial business processes. Interprets financial data, analyzes cost structures, and determines financial impacts of decisions.
•     Experience working with a global corporation and matrixed environment a plus.
•     Experience in a sourcing role and following compliance requirements for a global company and highly regulated industries.  

Equal Opportunity Employer