Your Future Role and Job Purpose:

IMI is looking to hire a Professional Category Management and Demand Planning Division Head as crucial strategic role. The main objective of this role is to enhance efficiency, minimize overall expenditures, and ensure quality and reliability throughout the supply chain. Additionally, this role leads and supports the formulation of comprehensive category management strategies.

Primary Accountabilities:

• Mentor and improve team performance.
• Set and implement plans for Category Management & Demand Planning team for better business participation.
• and involvement, more commitment, more innovation, creativity, and higher satisfaction at work.
• Prepare working reports and status updates of the division activities for the sourcing manager.
• Plan and implement long-term development strategies for product categories.
• Lead the development, implementation, and update of all polices strategies, procedures and process related to category management.
• Lead the team to work with the ERP team to ensure that PSCM requirements related to category management is implemented.
• Categorize Goods and services to ensure the optimum segmentation of the supply chain and the classification of suppliers according to the importance of their portfolio of goods and services.
• Conduct market assessment of suppliers and their supply chain.
• Analyze and interpret market conditions, trends, and data to identify market opportunities.
• Identify opportunities to enhance business performance through improved analytics and reporting.
• People management responsibility.
• Lead the right amount of inventory by managing the customer demand and IMI inventory stock on hand.

Who We Are Looking for:

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Operations Management,

  Engineering, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent.

• Category Management Association Certification/ MCIPS considered a plus.
• Fluent In English

Experience:

• Minimum 9-15 years of relevant experience.
• Procurement experience in working with different commodities with large volume purchases.
• Good understanding of accounting and business finance principles.
• Analytical, quantitative and Problem-Solving Skills.
• Previous experience working with ERP systems.