Category Expertise Center Leader

at  Nokia

The Category Expertise Center Leader holds the people manager responsibilities for all CEC team members. CEC Leader co-owns the master category specific priorities with the Master Category (MC) Head and is responsible for task prioritization.

The CEC Leader acts as a single point of contact to balance the workload across the team.

• Solid line manager for all assigned Category Managers in the CEC responsible for handling people’s day-to-day topics. Supports, develops, coaches and grows the team (competence and career development, engagement, inclusion and diversity, feedback and recognition, wellbeing)
• Ensure team members have right capabilities to secure current and future business needs
• Managing teams’ workload and syncing team members across all projects
• Translate Master Category strategy into team direction and objectives
• Ensure CEC Team is operating according to Nokia Essentials, People Strategy and Culture
• Co-owns the identification of supplier managers/SRMs with respective SSMs
• Agrees & monitors the KPIs with SSMs and MC head, and ensures understanding of and contribution to KPIs by the team
• Ensures and promotes best practices among the CEC community
• Helps team members exchange ideas, to seek help in project or problem statements, and discuss new technologies or methods
• Has a good knowledge of the Categories including its key technical elements market trends and developments, supported by the Strategic Sourcing Manager community.
• Develops further CEC ways of working incl. tasks automation, introduction of AI, tools and advanced task management approaches for more efficient management of pooled tasks & remote resources.
• Develops the capabilities cross CEC members where applicable towards a project driven organization instead of a supplier driven organization.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Management experience across several functional areas or businesses. Mastery of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and practice or expertise across several different disciplines within a function. Command of content of sub function. Recognised thought leader. Typically requires 10-12 years extensive relevant experience and/or a graduate / postgraduate equivalent degree. PhD degree would normally be expected in R&D stream.

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