What are the responsibilities and job description for the Procurement Category Manager position at Silgan Containers?
Procurement Category Manager
Join Silgan’s Procurement Team at our new Innovation Center in Brookfield, WI.
Silgan Containers is hiring a Procurement Category Manager to manage strategic sourcing initiatives for $50 million in spend. In this high impact role, you’ll develop sourcing strategies that enhance efficiency, drive cost savings, and improve supplier performance across multiple sites.
What We Offer:
- Compensation: Salary is considered using various factors such as years of experience, education, certifications, skills, and market conditions.
- Benefits: Comprehensive package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage.
- Retirement: 401k with six percent employer contribution.
- Time Off: 15 paid vacation days plus 10 paid holidays, you’re encouraged to take.
- Perks: Additional benefits include wellness programs, pet insurance, online workouts, a Teladoc telemedicine program, and more.
- Growth: Tuition reimbursement, professional training, and continuing education.
- Stability: Work for a reliable, environmentally conscious, publicly traded company.
- Safe Work Environment: Our Drive to Zero initiative focuses on employee safety and well being.
What You’ll Do:
- Build and implement sourcing strategies to drive measurable value and operational improvements across the assigned areas.
- Manage the strategic sourcing process by gathering data, preparing RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs, evaluating suppliers, and conducting supplier assessments to guide selection.
- Develop and maintain supplier relationships, outlining expectations and driving continuous improvement.
- Negotiate, draft, and finalize supply contracts with the legal team.
- Monitor industry trends, supply chain risks, and supplier performance to identify sourcing opportunities.
- Define and execute annual savings plans, working capital improvements, and specific category initiatives.
- Manage supplier qualification, training, and compliance efforts.
- Research and recommend sourcing models, including contracts, open market purchases, and outsourcing options.
- Deliver continuous cost reduction and value improvement through quoting, cost modeling, and strategic negotiation.
- Establish sourcing metrics and dashboards to measure supplier performance, savings, and operational outcomes.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders to align category strategies with business goals.
- Advance ESG initiatives by partnering with suppliers to implement sustainable practices and drive innovation.
What You Need to Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business, or a related field.
- At least 4 years of experience in procurement, category management, supply chain, or strategic sourcing, preferably in manufacturing.
- Background in the manufacturing sector with multiple sites or global operations preferred.
- Proven success negotiating complex contracts and managing supplier performance.
- Skilled in total cost of ownership modeling and using data to guide outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel pivot tables and PowerPoint.
- CPM or CPSM certification preferred.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally, as needed.
Who We Are:
- America's largest metal food packaging producer, dedicated to sustainability and innovation.
- Silgan Containers is rethinking how to make the metal food can through increased recycled content, modern process overhauls, renewable energy procurement, and other innovative practices.
Step into a role where your expertise drives results. Apply today!
