Category Leader, Energy

Georgia-Pacific LLC is seeking a Category Leader for its Energy Sourcing team. This role involves developing category strategies, managing spend, and executing cost reduction initiatives. The Category Leader will drive supplier management and customer relationships while leading transformation efforts. The position offers a hybrid work schedule, combining remote work with office days in Atlanta, making it flexible for candidates.
Your Job

SS&P is seeking a Category Leader to optimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) as part of the Energy Sourcing team. This role will be responsible for developing the category strategy and managing key drivers of the category spend, including setting the contract and pricing strategy, cost reduction initiatives, and demand plan. The Category Leader will also provide priorities to all capability partners to achieve the category strategy and manage execution, directly as well as through their team.

These roles are based in GP Center in Downtown Atlanta. This role has hybrid schedule of remote and office days.

Our Team

Georgia-Pacific’s Strategic Sourcing & Procurement (SS&P) organization is responsible for the strategic category management, sourcing and procurement of the critical supplies and materials that support 140+ locations across the US. The SS&P organization is currently undergoing an exciting transformation where we are partnering with our business partners and leveraging best practices to build internal capabilities that uniquely position the team to improve decision making capabilities and capture significant savings and efficiency opportunities. It is an exciting time to be part of a growing team and at the center of the transformation to help mold the future state of the SS&P organization!

What You Will Do
• Set & communicate category vision and strategy to maximize value
• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective supply markets, competitors, and product innovations; understand competitive landscape to identify threats/opportunities; leverage insights to drive strategy
• Apply category management knowledge processes to all spend categories, including should-cost analysis
• Frame up category opportunities using economic thinking with supporting financials; identify and size new TCO opportunities, prioritize and execute initiatives aligned with cross-functional teams that drive maximum value
• Own and track category spend, suppliers, savings, and category strategy adherence
• Manage any price changes consistent with the category contract strategy
• Plan and execute effective negotiation processes with suppliers
• Own category supplier management – including supplier pioneering & development, dispute management/resolution, supplier performance management; identify supplier risk areas and quantify risk exposure within category portfolio and execute risk mitigation actions
• Own category customer relationship management – including GP operations and business partnerships, lead category cross-functional teams, and support cross-Koch company stakeholder development and alignment
• Drive transformation & change management – Facilitate implementation of change initiatives within category to improve business performance

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
• Proven track record in delivering year-over-year cost savings and driving cost reduction and transformational change projects by applying economic thinking principles.
• Demonstrated ability to use marginal analysis to evaluate the benefits and costs of specific changes in strategy.
• Experience in identifying and prioritizing opportunities based on opportunity cost, ensuring the most valued use of resources.
• Strong capability in assessing and managing risks associated with decisions to maximize value creation.
• Ability to travel at least 10-25%

What Will Put You Ahead
• Bachelor’s Degree with a preference towards Engineering, Supply Chain, or Business focus.
• At least 2 years of experience in managing total cost of ownership (TCO) and/or P&L ownership across multiple spend and/or product categories, with a focus on optimizing resource allocation.
• Experience analyzing procurement/category spend data to form meaningful insights and aid effective business decision-making, considering both financial and non-financial costs.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing best-practice market processes regarding category strategies/points-of-view (POV’s), competitive bidding/benchmarking, and should-cost/price-setting analyses, using sound economic measures.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day –to make everyday products even better.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

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