Global Category Manager – Procurement | Medical Devices | Guaynabo, PR | Onsite

🌍 Global Category Manager – Procurement

📍 Location: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico (Metro Office Park, on-site 4 days/week)
🏭 Industry: Medical Devices / Manufacturing
🎓 Education: Bachelor’s Degree (required)
💼 Experience Level: Mid–Senior (10–15 years)
🚫 Visa Sponsorship: Not available
🚚 Relocation: Not available
💰 Compensation: Competitive base salary + full benefits
🕓 Employment Type: Full-Time | Permanent

🌟 The Opportunity

A global leader in medical technology is seeking an experienced Global Category Manager – Procurement to lead strategic sourcing and category management across a diverse global network of 87 manufacturing sites.

Reporting directly to the Director of Strategic Sourcing, this role will define and execute a global category strategy encompassing procurement, sourcing, vendor management, and cost optimization initiatives. You’ll partner with cross-functional and multicultural teams, driving measurable results in cost efficiency, supplier performance, and risk mitigation.

This is a high-visibility position offering the opportunity to influence sourcing strategy at a global scale while supporting the mission of advancing healthcare innovation worldwide.

🧭 Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and lead global category sourcing strategies aligned with business objectives and growth plans.

• Collaborate with global procurement leaders under a hub-and-spoke model to set category direction and drive consistency across regions.

• Monitor key spending trends, market drivers, and supply chain risks to proactively adjust strategies.

• Lead strategic sourcing efforts to minimize cost, ensure supply continuity, and enhance product quality.

Supplier & Contract Management

• Identify, qualify, and manage a global supplier base, ensuring performance against KPIs for cost, quality, delivery, and service.

• Lead complex negotiations and develop contracts for standard and specialized goods/services in collaboration with legal teams.

• Conduct supplier evaluations, site audits, and continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen vendor performance.

• Drive supplier business reviews to promote continuous improvement and partnership excellence.

Operational Excellence

• Apply Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement principles to streamline procurement processes.

• Partner with business units and R&D leaders to integrate category strategies and optimize total cost of ownership.

• Leverage technology and analytics to forecast demand, evaluate cost drivers, and support long-term sourcing decisions.

• Ensure strict adherence to corporate ethics, compliance, and fiduciary standards across procurement operations.

🎓 Education & Experience

Required

✅ Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field.
✅ 6–8+ years of relevant experience in procurement, sourcing, or category management.
✅ Strong background in strategic sourcing, negotiations, and market intelligence.
✅ Proficiency with Ariba, ERP systems, and advanced Excel or analytical tools.
✅ Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and cross-cultural collaboration skills.
✅ Bilingual (English & Spanish).

Preferred

⭐ Experience managing procurement in plastic components, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries.
⭐ Proven ability to develop category strategies using structured 5-step or 7-step strategic sourcing frameworks.
⭐ Background in multi-site, global operations management (supporting 50+ facilities).
⭐ Demonstrated success in forecasting, cost modeling, and supplier relationship management.

💡 Core Competencies

• Strategic and analytical thinker with a data-driven approach.

• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.

• Proven ability to operate in global, multicultural environments.

• Excellent project management, forecasting, and reporting skills.

• Resilient, adaptable, and results-focused leader.

🧩 Why This Role?

This position offers the opportunity to lead at the intersection of strategic sourcing and innovation, with real impact on a company that touches millions of lives through advanced medical technologies.

You’ll join a team that values integrity, collaboration, and continuous improvement, while offering support for professional growth and global exposure.

✨ Ideal Candidate Snapshot

• Experience: 10–15 years in category management or strategic sourcing

• Industry Background: Medical Devices, Plastics, or Pharmaceuticals

• Languages: English & Spanish (bilingual proficiency)

• Tools: Ariba | ERP Systems | Advanced Excel

• Leadership: Experience managing suppliers and stakeholders across multiple countries

• Travel: Occasional

🌐 Ready to lead global procurement strategy for a mission-driven organization?
Apply your category management expertise and make a global impact by driving value, sustainability, and innovation across the supply chain.

Procurement Specialist – Manufacturing & Supply Chain | San Diego, CA | $108K–$163K

🌟 Exciting Opportunity: Procurement Specialist
📍 Location: San Diego, California, United States
🏢 Office-based (not a remote role)
💼 Industry: Manufacturing & Production | Category: Supply Chain & Materials Management
💰 Base Salary: $108,834 – $163,252
📈 Employment Type: Full-time | Mid-Senior Level
🎓 Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree
🧳 Travel: Occasional

🚀 Make a Global Impact in Supply Chain

Join a high-performing team as a Procurement Specialist, where you'll directly influence supplier performance and ensure the seamless availability of materials to worldwide production locations. This dynamic role combines strategy and execution — from negotiating contracts to resolving critical supply chain issues — all in a fast-paced environment driven by innovation and customer satisfaction.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

• Manage day-to-day and strategic supplier relationships across the forging and machining supply chain.

• Lead purchase order processes, demand forecasting, contract negotiations, and risk mitigation.

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including sourcing, planning, engineering, and quality.

• Drive supplier performance improvements in cost, delivery, and quality.

• Actively participate in supply chain transformation projects from inception to execution.

• Support global procurement objectives while ensuring compliance with internal policies.

✅ What You'll Bring

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5–7 years of purchasing experience
  or
  Master’s degree with 3–5 years of relevant experience.

• Strong background with ERP systems and Microsoft Office Suite.

• Fluent in professional Business English, written and verbal.

Preferred:

• Supply Chain certification (e.g., ASCM, APICS, ISM, or equivalent).

• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma (Blackbelt or Greenbelt preferred).

• Experience with Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modeling and cost reduction strategies.

• Strong communication, analytical thinking, and stakeholder influencing skills.

• Membership in professional procurement associations a plus.

🎁 Perks & Benefits

• Competitive base salary with room for growth

• Comprehensive benefits package

• Dynamic, collaborative work environment

• Opportunities for professional development

• Impactful projects with global reach

Ready to take your procurement career to the next level? Apply now and bring your expertise to a team that values innovation, precision, and operational excellence.

Plant Engineer | Manufacturing Leadership | Willows, CA

Plant Engineer
Location: Willows, California, United States
Job Category: Engineering - Mechanical

Job Description:

The Plant Engineer is responsible for overseeing, managing, and maintaining the engineering and maintenance functions within a manufacturing facility. This role includes management of both capital and maintenance budgets, focusing on equipment reliability, productivity improvements, and staffing of the Maintenance department. The Plant Engineer will also ensure safety and environmental compliance while supporting the achievement of business goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, staff, and coordinate the Maintenance department

• Develop and manage Capex Programs, and report monthly on Capex spend

• Oversee the Plant maintenance budget, reporting monthly on expenses

• Monitor plant equipment reliability and implement improvement programs

• Drive productivity improvements across operations

• Implement and manage maintenance skills programs

• Control plant energy management programs

• Ensure environmental and safety compliance

• Troubleshoot and diagnose complex equipment issues

• Collaborate with Plant Leadership to achieve organizational goals

• Perform other related duties as assigned

What You Bring to the Team:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering

• Minimum of 6 years of manufacturing/project engineering experience and 2 years in a leadership role

• Experience managing a team of 55 hourly and 4 salary employees

• Strong understanding of mechanical systems, environmental, and safety regulations

• Proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills

• Problem-solving and analytical skills

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Lean and Six Sigma experience preferred

• Ability to lift, carry, push, or pull up to 25 pounds

• Willingness to travel occasionally (minimal, about 2 weeks per year)

Work Environment:

• The work environment is typical of a manufacturing facility, which may include exposure to noise, dust, fumes, high heat, and mechanical parts.

Compensation:

• Base Salary: USD $127,000 to $165,000

• Benefits: Full

• Relocation Assistance: Available for ideal candidate

• Interview Travel Reimbursed: Yes

Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate will be a strong technical leader, with the ability to manage both the Engineering and Maintenance departments. This person will need to be people-focused, able to manage a large team, and drive improvement projects. The role includes managing a capital improvement budget of $5-6M per year. Experience in a non-union environment is a plus.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering

• Minimum 5 years' experience in a plant engineering environment

• Proven leadership and problem-solving skills

This is a full-time position with excellent benefits and opportunities for growth.

Lean Manager - Huntersville, NC - $88,200 - $147,000

Lean Manager

Huntersville, NC

$88,200 - $147,000

Job Description

This role is responsible for driving the development and implementation of continuous improvement projects consistent with and in support of the strategic plan and the business operating plan. The Lean Manufacturing Manager will own the Lean maturity assessments and improvement initiatives for the site. They will also partner with site leaders on strategy and deployment objectives.

Key Responsibilities

·        Documents and works with site controller to validate achieved Lean savings.

·        Make recommendations on designing new procedures and methods for operational processes using their knowledge of the operation and in partnering and collaborating with various other departments.

·        Utilize project charters with deliverables to work with site leaders to identify, modify, and sustain desired changes including reducing waste and improving efficiencies.

·        Lead projects and initiatives from idea generation to strategic execution. Provide strategic insight and evaluation of the organizations progression.

·        Act as a mentor for the Continuous Improvement leadership, supervisory staff and frontline personnel.

·        Develop and influence strategy, planning, and execution depending on project or initiative needs.

·        Lead goal setting, assignment of projects, and review of progress, approval, and feedback for respective site.

·        KPI goal setting with the site via semi-annual business assessment, reporting and leading site reporting for KPI’s. Monthly updates on CI resource and engagement activities.

·        Be a change agent: challenge organizational leaders to drive continuous improvements; remove organizational barriers to continuous improvement processes.Develop, implement and monitor site Lean training initiatives.

Qualifications and Experience

·        BS/BA or equivalent experience.

·        4-8 years of successful leadership in executing continuous improvement/Lean/Six Sigma efforts and enabling efficiency, effectiveness resulting in demonstrable tangible financial benefit.

·        Lean Master or Master Six Sigma Green Belt certification or equivalent.

·        Prior leadership or management experience required.

·        Experience designing, implementing and leading continuous improvement projects/programs.

·        Must have thorough understanding of cycle time reduction, waste reduction, yield improvement, productivity, OEE and throughput improvement.

·        Intimate knowledge and hands-on experience using operational excellence and continuous improvement methods; ability to personally conduct events and effectively train others in industry standard VSM, LMS, 5S, TPM, SMED, MPS, TPI, SD, 7 Wastes, Standard Work, various 3P, problem solving and action planning.

·        Proven leadership skills to coach and lead teams to fully deliver chartered objectives and projects.

·        Ability to establish self as credible leader and partner with site leadership as a trusted member of site staff.

·        Excellent project management skills.

·        Ability to be a self-starter with excellent organizational skills in planning and organizing to handle multiple tasks concurrently.

·        The ability to travel up to 25% of the time.

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Director Global Accounts Payable - USA. Remote - $100,000 - $137,000

Director Global Accounts Payable

USA. Remote

$100,000 - $137,000

Job Description

Our company is a world leader in gaming entertainment, offering a diverse range of products and services, including electronic gaming machines, social gaming, and casino management systems. We’re licensed in 240 gaming jurisdictions and operate in 90 countries around the world. Our team of over 6,500 employees deliver outstanding results by pushing the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and technology. Our mission is simple, we create the world’s greatest gaming experience, every day.

Job Description Summary

The Global Director Accounts Payable & Client Success, prime responsibility is to lead and manage the Accounts Payable team to deliver accurate and timely AP services, standardizing, and globalizing processes as well as partner with our key internal stakeholders to ensure continuous improvement to software that enhances their Accounts Payable experience.

Leading a team of up to 15 based in different regions, you will be accountable for ensuring our AP strategy is developed and executed in line with the organization’s objectives and goals with consideration of ensuring services are delivered on time and accurately in the Americas (USA, Canada, LATAM), Australia, New Zealand, Asia, EMEA, India, Digital.

As a leader you will also drive team engagement initiatives and support, through active participation in, broader finance team initiatives to drive culture, engagement, training, and transformation. The aim is to create a team culture of cross collaboration and establish cross functional teams based around same processes.

You will be in control of the entire AP function for us which include the end-to-end processing, payments, data integrity, compliance, controls and more. In addition, you will play a key role in the establishment of processes and their own new ERP and OCR and workflow system.

A part of the role is to support initiatives and projects with a view of expansion of AP services across the companies Group.

Job Requirements

·      Leading a team of up to 15, including 3 regional direct reports. Responsible for direct reports performance and development reviews, Drives cultural and engagement initiatives and positive leadership across the team.

·      Drive the cross regional collaboration leveraging best practices of AP processes and software usage to deliver results that exceed customer satisfaction.

·      Standardise and globalise process further using LEAN and process improvement tools and techniques. Having had some background or experience as a practitioner in prior roles.

·      Building effective relationships with key internal stakeholders to seek feedback on current AP services, software features, with a view to making improvements to processes as well as facilitate software enhancements.

·      Formulate and execute the current and future AP strategy to deliver superior customer experiences. Socialise and continually evolve the strategy with key stakeholders.

·      You will build out our stakeholder network by analysing, engaging, and maximising opportunities to improve the efficiency of their processes. Success in this role will be the design of innovative enhancements to the tools that generate improved efficiencies enabling long term user advocacy.

·      Your focus will be on identifying opportunities for product utilisation and being the subject matter expert for our users to operate and grow using Concur.

·      The ideal candidate will have impeccable relational skills and can create win/win environments for all parties that he or she works with. This candidate will be responsible for providing an excellent customer experience and helping our users achieve their desired goals.

·      Develop the global strategy on concur expansion globally through keeping a pulse on the Business.

·      Engage with Senior leaders on the Concur expansion strategy. Participate in the Concur global expansion.

·      Provide consultation to key internal stakeholders and potential new areas on enhancing Concur to improve internal controls and improve usage and adoption.

·      Identifies and problem solves issues and challenges and works proactively with other departments to put in place sustainable solutions, to avoid critical delays that could jeopardise overall services.

·      Ensures monitoring of team’s activities to ensure adherence to policy and procedures.

·      In-depth understanding of the following processes: invoice processing, payment processing, vendor enquiries, vendor master data, Expenses & Corporate Credit Card, Concur administration, intranet maintenance.

·      Directs the team to deliver accounts payable services to support these processes. Drives cross-training across the team as well as ensuring processes are documented and maintained.

·      Identifies, sponsors, or leads initiatives to support finance transformation to drive more efficiency, accuracy and scalability within the Accounts Payable team, including supporting robotics, BI and other automation/technology driven programs.

·      Supports external audit requirements by preparation of requested audit information, including process walk-throughs, sample evidence, analytics and responding to audit queries.

·      Undertaken number of expenses and AP transformation projects. Experience in on-boarding new businesses is valued.

·      Worked with both in house and externally hosted finance systems. Experience in finance system implementations would be an advantage

·      Support key business priority projects.

Qualifications

·      Degree qualitied in an accounting related or similar field.

·      LEAN Six Sigma skills with at least 3 years of practitioner experience.

Advanced Concur System Admin experience is required.

·      Minimum 5 years relevant experience in a similar leadership role.

·      Experience in a global organization with multi-regional teams and processes

·      Team management – including building and developing teams, with preference to multi-site teams. Be a driver of team culture and engagement.

·      Lead change initiatives across the team to support process improvement.

·      Attention to detail to support this gatekeeper role for compliance and control practices.

·      Willing to challenge the status quo

·      Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, including management of multiple deliverables to tight deadlines.

Why Us?                                       

·      World Leader in Gaming Entertainment

·      Robust benefits package

·      Global career opportunities

·      Supports Diversity, Inclusion and Equality

·      Flexible working policy