Company:
Mitsubishi Chemical America, Inc.
Job Description:
Category Buyer – Technical Services & Technical Goods
Drive Procurement Strategy Across North America
Mitsubishi Chemical Group is seeking a strategic and results-driven Category Buyer to lead sourcing initiatives for Technical Services and Technical Goods across our North American operations. This is an opportunity to make a measurable impact by developing category strategies, strengthening supplier partnerships, negotiating high-value agreements, and delivering cost savings while ensuring a reliable and resilient supply base.
If you're passionate about strategic sourcing, enjoy collaborating with cross-functional business leaders, and thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
As the Category Buyer, you'll manage a portfolio of approximately $20–40 million in annual spend and partner with stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, Maintenance, Finance, and Procurement to deliver business value through strategic sourcing and supplier management.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies that align with business priorities across North America.
- Lead competitive sourcing events, supplier negotiations, and contract management from strategy through execution.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships while driving continuous improvement, innovation, and performance.
- Analyze spend data, market trends, and total cost of ownership to identify sourcing opportunities and optimize supplier portfolios.
- Monitor supplier performance, risk, and compliance while ensuring supply continuity.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to understand operational needs and provide strategic procurement guidance.
- Support digital procurement initiatives, including SAP Ariba, spend analytics, automation, and AI-enabled procurement tools.
- Lead supplier consolidation and regional standardization initiatives that create enterprise-wide value.
- Champion sustainability, supplier diversity, ESG, and Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) objectives through responsible sourcing practices.
- Mentor junior procurement professionals and provide project leadership as needed.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for someone who combines strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence stakeholders and build long-term supplier partnerships.
Qualifications include:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field preferred. Candidates with a high school diploma and 10 or more years of relevant strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement experience will also be considered.
- Five or more years of strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement experience within a manufacturing, chemical, industrial, automotive, or similar environment.
- Experience developing and executing category strategies.
- Proven success negotiating complex commercial agreements and managing supplier relationships.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using spend analytics and market intelligence to support sourcing decisions.
- Experience with SAP, SAP Ariba, or other Source-to-Pay procurement platforms.
- Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
Pay Transparency
The salary range for this position is $95,300-$119,100. Factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and business considerations may influence base pay offered. This salary will be subject to a geographic adjustment (according to a specific city and state), if an authorization is granted to work outside of the location listed in this posting.
