Summary:
Reviews and analyzes purchase requisitions. Coordinates purchasing activities with manufacturing, planning and engineering departments to acquire inventory in a cost effective and timely manner. Processes purchase requisitions, purchase change orders and requests for quotes to suppliers. Responsible for procurement business system data input and integrity; creates and maintains bills of material and parts/commodities numbers in supply chain management or other enterprisewide systems. Participates in maximizing the procurement teams' changes, part parameters; quote table maintenance, supplier database information, error report analysis, and part number/supplier code information. Performs cost analysis and volume planning for major commodities (e.g., materials, components, equipment and services). Monitors the cost, schedule and scope of assigned subcontracts to negotiate highest quality at best value. Develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive. May recommend cost saving proposals including make-versus-buy analysis or alternative sourcing.



Interacts closely with suppliers and QA to resolve quality issues. Works with management to address all aspects of commodity management, including procurement support, commodity business plans, market trends assessment, pricing, and product availability. Requires domestic or global expertise of assigned commodities.
Duties & Responsibilities:
We are looking for a Category Manager become part of the Global Indirect Sourcing & Procurement team. We are looking for someone with strong leadership, collaboration, influencing and data literacy skills and the ability to utilize solid business acumen, and partner with internal stakeholders to drive efficiencies, reduce risk and cost for the category under management. They should be able to develop business cases, have good presentation skills and superior stakeholder communication skills, along with the ability to leverage data to drive stakeh

📌 Global Category Manager (Pune)
🏢 Viavi Solutions
📍 Pune