Description

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Procurement, the Category Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and optimizing category management strategies for purchasing groups. He or she acts as an internal expert on markets, trends, and strategic levers to ensure sustainable value creation for the Montreal Port Authority.


Strategic Category Development and Management
  • Develop short, medium and long-term category strategies in collaboration with business units.
  • Conduct spending, market, risk, and trend analyses.
  • Identify optimization levers (standardization, consolidation, supplier segmentation, etc.).
  • Recommend contractual strategies aligned with corporate objectives.


Governance and Performance
  • Establish performance objectives for categories and monitor their progress
  • Coordinate annual or periodic supplier performance reviews in collaboration with procurement advisors and requesters.
  • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and recommend action plans.


Market Analysis and Strategic Monitoring
  • Conduct ongoing monitoring of local, national, and international markets.
  • Assess supply risks, availability issues, technological innovations, and best practices.
  • Provide operational teams with strategic analyses and recommendations to guide procurement initiatives.


Strategic Support for Procurement Activities
  • Support procurement advisors in defining tendering strategies as needed.
  • Provide negotiation templates, evaluation matrices, and strategic guidance.
  • Contribute to the development of business cases.


Supplier portfolio management and optimization
  • Develop the supplier segmentation strategy (critical, strategic, transactional).
  • Coordinate evaluations and improvement programs.
  • Support the director in decisions regarding the addition, retention, or removal of suppliers from strategic portfolios.


Collaboration and Organizational Influence
  • Serve as a central point of expertise for category management.
  • Contribute to the maturity of the procurement function by introducing structured approaches (TCO, SRM, segmentation, complex analyses).

Perform any other related tasks.

Qualifications
 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a specialization in Operations and Logistics Management or a related field.
  • 10 years of relevant experience.
  • Excellent analytical and synthesis skills.
  • Strong project management and change management skills.
  • Knowledge of best practices in category management
  • Experience with ERP systems, ideally SAP (MM module).
  • Bilingual in French and English.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
  • Bilingual in spoken and written French and English.
  • Able to act as an influential leader without direct supervision.