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. Becomes a trusted advisor and critical partner to stakeholders
Prepares documentation and relevant partner communication to enable key decision forums
Essential Experience and Job Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree/ Post graduate qualification in something related to Logistics, Supply Chain, Procurement (or equivalent relevant professional experience)
Functional knowledge: Knowledge of category management principles and experience in undertaking procurement processes and developing category strategies.
An understanding of how to ensure strategies flow through to execution in the businesses / assets
Strong experience in logistics category across transportation, warehouse operations, freight forwarding, last-mile delivery and related sub-categories.
Ability to manage large global spend portfolio across multiple countries.
Business expertise: Stakeholder management and influencing skills in order to develop a deep understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and their priorities, including long term objectives.
An ability to quickly develop an understanding of the supported businesses / regions / assets and its objectives
Knowledge of procurement within a complex multinational business
Knowledge in relevant procurement categories with an understanding of the market's dynamics and its influence on procurement strategies
Leadership: An SME in the relevant category, who shares knowledge with the wider team and implements the strategy. Collaborates across procurement, the businesses, suppliers and beyond to achieve their categories goals.
Experience in leading initiatives internationally, recognizing cultural nuances, analyzing data-driven trends & insights, and employing agile/flexible approaches
An advocate for our code, they incorporate the Operating Management System (OMS) and our safety leadership principles into strategies and everyday work
Problem solving: The role requires analytical thinking to develop and evaluate solutions, as well as judgement to translate business requirements into actionable plans.
Adopts industry challenges and technological disruption, pioneers innovative solutions whilst managing risk
Develop strong supplier relationships, bringing multiple parties together to collaboratively solve complex business problems
Translates business requirements into a strategic category plan
Uses critical thinking to make informed strategic decision
Interpersonal skills: Strong interpersonal skills are essential for collaborating with the category team, engaging with global, diverse partners, communicating impact-fully across organizational levels and managing change effectively.
Networking and influencing skills to ensure buy in and adoption
Regular interaction with external suppliers and representing Castrol externally
Effective change management
Persevering through organizational complexity and resistance to change
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