[Hiring] Strategic Sourcing Category Manager @WD-40 COMPANY

Role Description

We're looking for a Category Manager to join our Americas Strategic Sourcing team and own real packaging categories: plastics, cans, Smart Straw, and corrugate. This is not a role where you forward emails and wait. You'll build the case, bring the data, and sit across the table, whether prices are heading up or down.

• Own supplier price management, end to end.
• Track market and raw material cost drivers.
• Respond to supplier increase letters, dig into index data, recommend positions, and negotiate.
• Engage suppliers and their upstream supply chains to negotiate cost reductions.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across Planning, QA, R&D, and Marketing.
• Support can sourcing, our single biggest savings lever, as we grow across Latin America.
• Keep the fast lane moving with corrugate spend management.
• Build cost models, price lists, and variance reviews.
• Help fix stuck projects, such as custom molding solutions for bottle conversion.
• Up to 30% travel to suppliers and contract manufacturers in the US, Mexico, and Brazil.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years in strategic sourcing or procurement for direct materials (packaging, components, or raw materials).
• Contract manufacturing experience, on either the client or the supplier side.
• Hands-on experience with plastics: resin, bottles, injection or blow molding.
• A track record of managing supplier pricing with data.
• Strong Excel skills and the patience to work through detailed cost data.
• Critical thinking and curiosity.
• A collaborative mindset.

Requirements

• Bonus points for experience with can or metal packaging, corrugate, Power BI, Microsoft D365, and international sourcing.

Benefits

• A strong values-aligned organization where contributions are acknowledged and rewarded.
• A learning-based culture where 78% of our team believe they can achieve their career objectives.
• Over 94% employee engagement as of the January 2025 global employee survey results.
• 99% of our people report that they "love to tell people that they work for WD-40 Company!"