Category Manager

Role – Category Manager, Asia Sourcing for Chemicals and Energy

Owns end-to-end category leadership, sourcing strategy, commercial execution, and capability uplift for commodity chemicals and energy in alignment with both global and regional sourcing strategy and INVISTA’s principles.

Report to Sourcing Director, Asia

Responsibilities

• Category strategy & ownership
  • Lead end-to-end sourcing strategy balancing economics, risk and working-capital impact, to ensure meet commercial and operational requirements and contribute to business growth goal.
  • Own category outcomes and drive capability development.
• Commercial economics & value creation
• Embed economic thinking and use data-driven analysis to prioritize high-impact initiatives and maximize profitability.
• Design commercially executable approaches that protect margin and track value creation, ensuring transparency to stakeholders.
• Market intelligence & trading mindset
• Maintain an actionable market point-of-view and develop short- and medium-term price outlooks.
• Apply a trading mentality to inform economic decisions and negotiations under fast-moving market conditions.
• Supplier relationship, contracting & risk management
• Build and sustain commercially profitable, high-integrity relationships and negotiate risk-adjusted agreements that align supplier incentives with our business goals.
• Lead supplier qualification, onboarding and continuous improvement programs to enable mutual benefits
• Proactively identify and mitigate supply risks and maintain contingency plans to improve competitive position.
• Cross-functional collaboration & stakeholder engagement
• Act as a principled entrepreneur to lead cross-functional workstreams, secure timely stakeholders’ alignment, and communicate impact clearly.
• Execution, digitization & continuous improvement
• Drive disciplined execution from strategy to contract, ensure benefits are sustained, and partner with sourcing excellence to deploy digital tools and automation
• Compliance, IP protection & talent development
• Ensure all activities in compliance with INVISTA policies, legal and regulatory requirements and protect INVISTA’s Intellectual Property.
• Mentor and develop team members.

Requirements:

• l At least 8 years experiences in sourcing/commercial/trading within oelfins, pretrochemcals, energy, or related commodity markets
• Bachelor degree in chemistry, Business, Supply Chain or related field;
• Proven negotiation and contract management experiences for commodity categories .
• Strong communication, coordination, interpersonal and cross functional leadership skills
• Willingness to take on challenging assignments or work under pressure when needed.
• Good English in both writing and oral