- Define, implement, and continuously improve global category strategies to deliver value improvement, productivity gains, and risk mitigation.
- Lead end-to-end sourcing processes including supplier evaluation, selection, negotiation, contracting, and supplier performance management.
- Build strong, collaborative relationships with regional procurement leaders, ensuring alignment of objectives, sharing of best practices, and achievement of global productivity targets.
- Manage strategic supplier partnerships, ensuring delivery of cost, quality, service, and innovation objectives.
- Lead and develop cross-regional procurement teams, driving global alignment and execution consistency.
- Partner with engineering, operations, and quality to ensure supplier capabilities meet technical, operational, and compliance requirements.
- Monitor global market trends and supply chain risks, proactively adapting strategies to secure business continuity and competitiveness.
- Report progress on productivity and value improvement targets to senior leadership.
- 10+ years of experience in global category management, ideally within a multinational environment.
- Demonstrated success in delivering productivity and value improvement initiatives across complex categories.
- Proven ability to work with and influence regional procurement organizations to achieve global objectives.
- Strong expertise in one or more of the assigned categories (Composites, Filters, Molding, Plastics, Pipes, Valves).
- Experience in managing and developing international teams.
- Excellent negotiation, stakeholder management, and cross-cultural communication skills.
- Fluent in English; Spanish is a strong plus.
- Willingness to travel internationally (20–30%).
- 9/80 work week schedule (EVERY OTHER FRIDAY OFF!)
- 3 weeks of paid vacation
- 11 paid Holidays
- Free parking for Atlanta Airport for both business and personal travel.
- Full range of health benefits including medical, dental & vision, short & long-term disability
- 401(K) matching (100% of first 3% contributed, 50% of the next 2%)
- Health and wellness programs / gym reimbursement
- Educational assistance up to $7,000 per year
- Company sponsored FUN events!
- Generous product discounts
Top Skills
What We Do
We’re an industry‐leading, global company with a legacy of innovation. Our reach extends worldwide across both the residential and commercial pool and wellness markets. We now have over 7,000 employees, a presence in over 45 countries and the combined resources to accelerate innovation in critical areas like energy-efficiency, robotics and the Internet of Things.
Offering an extensive array of quality‐designed pool and spa equipment, our portfolio includes some of the most trusted brands in the business: Polaris®, Jandy®, CMP, S.R. Smith, and Zodiac®. We also sell products under the Cover‐Pools®, iAquaLink®, Grand Effects®, Dell® and Nature2® names.
Our focus is on creating the perfect pool and wellness experience responsibly. We take our mission to heart, and our employees embody the passion for results, teamwork, and user focus that get us there.
Why Work With Us
Our company culture is what makes us all look forward to coming to work each day. It’s innovative, energetic, ambitious — and dare we say — FUN. Built on a solid foundation of corporate values that prioritize our employees and customers, our values are the code by which we live and breathe — not just writing on the wall.
Gallery
