Group Regional Europe Category Manager

Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

THE ROLE

Reporting to the Group Global Category Director, the Group Regional Category Manager is accountable for
the overall procurement performance on his scope (CMA CGM and CEVA)

WHAT ARE GOING TO DO ? 

• Manage a team of 5 category buyers
• Define categories and supplier base strategies, in close liaison with the Global Category Director
• Develop on his category scope annual spend reduction plans (supplier prices reduction and internal
  demand optimization), ensuring the activation of all possible performance levers: value analysis, cost
  breakdown, supplier base rationalization, country synergies, benchmarking, near-/offshoring, etc.
• Leverage all possible CMA CGM group synergies
• Lead all key Request for Proposal (RFP) processes (RFP strategies and supplier selection) in close
  collaboration with business owners / stakeholders.
• Implement internal working groups, aiming at identifying cost-saving opportunities, disruptive business
  model changes to generate additional savings.
• Identify all potential synergies across countries and other CEVA regions (Europe, Latam, APAC, IMEA):
  multi-country RFPs, supplier base rationalization
• Monitor Suppliers risk: financial health, CSR, compliance, dependency,…develop corrective actions when
  necessary.

Main KPIs will be :
- Spend reduction (hard savings & cost avoidance, suppliers price reduction & demand optimization)
-- Number of annual innovation committees with strategic suppliers

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR ? 

• Master degree in business school
• Experience 7-10 years industrial or indirect Procurement
• Strong negotiation skills
• Leadership skills
• Ability to develop strategies and work operationally
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multicultural, and matrix organization.
• Sense of details

Come along on CMA CGM’s adventure !