Global Logistics Category Manager Castrol

Job Family Group: Procurement & Supply Chain Management Group Job Description: This is a role within the Castrol organisation and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence. If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership. Let me tell you about the role The Global Logistics Category Manager provides category leadership for key sub-categories in support of their global category. This role will also have leadership accountability for logistics in the Aspac region. They undertake category management and global supplier relationship management, driving end-to-end spend management to mitigate supply chain risk and improve value delivery, including sustainability, within their category. They do this through collaborating across and beyond procurement, including with regional, business, and cross-functional resources. They know their categories intimately and support development of innovative strategies which deliver business objectives and strong category guidance which ensures efficient end to end category execution. They work with regional and Capability Centre resources for optimal, compliant, and competitive procurement outcomes, collaborating across and beyond procurement. Problem solvers with good commercial acumen, they create solutions to category challenges, they cultivate senior stakeholder relationships and work with businesses to understand their evolving needs alongside developing deep insights into supply markets, including disruptors and technological advances. They bring value through orchestrating development of transformational strategies in support of Castrol’s strategy, collaborating cross-functionally to realize identified value and working with delivery teams to ensure that their global strategies are implemented locally. Leads end‑to‑end category strategy, sourcing, contracting, and supplier performance management across the global logistics portfolio. This category covers major spend areas including road transportation, warehousing, freight forwarding, rail logistics, offshore support vessels and similar services, making it a critical indirect category with high operational impact. Analyse spend, market trends, demand patterns, and cost drivers across logistics sub‑services such as transportation, warehousing and freight forwarding. Identify consolidation, standardisation and optimisation opportunities across high‑volume buying markets (e.g., US, China, Germany, Australia, India, Belgium). Develop commercial models for freight, warehousing, transportation lanes, and value‑added services. Handle logistics supplier relationships across regions, ensuring adherence to service levels, delivery performance, safety, capacity, and availability. Oversee performance dashboards, Key Performance Indicators, scorecards, quarterly business reviews and continuous improvement programmes. Partner with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Operations, Planning, Finance and regional logistics organisations to support business demand. What you will deliver Category Strategy leadership: Collaborate to develop creative category strategies that address business needs, both globally and regionally, supply chain risk and sustainability. Analyze market factors to inform strategy excellence, remaining attuned to market dynamics, balancing needs with proactive transformational strategies. Category excellence: Data led management of end-to-end category performance by working with the organization to understand demand and ensure strategies that can be implemented effectively across teams. • Skillfully navigates Castrol’s multifaceted operational frameworks, guaranteeing consistent strategy delivery and uninterrupted supply flow to make procurement easier for suppliers and partners to work with. • Consider regional factors like laws, taxes, and market conditions in category management planning. • Cultivates purpose-driven partnerships and robust supplier relationships to navigate business challenges and unlock triple bottom line (people, profit & planet) value Transformation and Change Management: Implement transformation initiatives, which deliver incremental business value. Ensure supplier performance, in a dynamic business environment, and implement change across diverse partner landscapes. • Leverage digital solutions to drive innovation, enhancing efficiency, effectiveness and value creation • Partner with internal teams to drive category excellence • Use influencing, storytelling and communication to encourage adoption Team integration: Work within a team of category managers, embracing culture of collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement. Acts as an SME and advocate for their category, sharing category knowledge across teams to ensure business needs are met. • Builds category knowledge across the wider procurement organization to ensure strategy execution • Develops their technical capabilities in order to deliver category operational excellence • Adopts accelerator skills; curiosity in external markets, innovation and technological disruption, digital fluency, data-driven insights, and collaboration with both suppliers and partners • Cultivate an environment of psychological safety as a foundation for collaborative learning, ideation and innovation Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Uses storytelling to communicate with team members and external partners, respectfully challenging to achieve the right outcomes, resolving conflict and focusing on priorities. • Leads and influences through complexity and ambiguity, handling virtual relationships with partners in multi-discipline, multi-cultural environments • Unites diverse partners, ensuring both advantageous supply avenues and collaborative solutions to business challenges • Builds relationships, bringing market insights and championing supplier value whilst taking time to understand business needs. 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