Job Description

About This Role

This role manages global strategic sourcing for our Climate Solutions Transportation Business Unit with over $1B in spend. You’ll lead category strategy, optimize cost, and drive supplier performance across all key Categories within this Business Unit. Key responsibilities include, fostering cross-functional collaboration, managing vendor relationships, and leading a team of 6-8 category managers. The role also focuses on cost optimization, innovation, and aligning sourcing with long-term product and technology strategies.

• Manages global strategic sourcing for our Climate Solutions Transportation Business Unit with over $1B in spend.

• Providing strategy input to category managers for our Climate Solutions Transportation Business Unit Categories

• Responsible for building short and long-term categories strategy to ensure operational excellence and efficiencies are met.

• Establishes a cross-functional network and fosters collaboration with suppliers, wider supply chain organization, engineering, quality, and product management.

• Owns the vendor performance data and reports metrics to leadership.

• Develops and implements a category strategy which optimizes affordability, availability, agility, and innovation. Leverages understanding of similar industry, sourcing concepts, and Lean tools to ensure parts delivered on time at best cost and quality.

• Manages external relationships with suppliers and assumes responsibility for all internal activities and decisions associated with category and suppliers, including contract negotiations, new products development, approved vendor list, RFX, re-sourcing, dual qualification, pricing changes, quality, and capacity.

• Collaborate within the Global Strategic Sourcing team and across Product Management and Engineering to align on long-term strategy, technology roadmap, and risk mitigation.

• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors, and product innovations.

• Continuously evaluate supplier category markets to evaluate new suppliers, report on market conditions, and understand trends related to cost drivers and global pricing, to ensure our strategic sourcing competitiveness.

• Work with suppliers and internal teams to identify VA/VE opportunities and lead initiatives to drive cost-out, eliminate inefficiencies, and achieve supply surety.

• Will work closely with Engineering, Quality, and NPI teams to enhance our global product generation process to ensure we incorporate our strategic supplier partnerships in our new product innovation process.

• Manage a team of 6-8 category team leaders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 10+ years’ experience with Category Management Experience

• Ability to travel up to 30-40% of the time both domestically and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, finance, or business

• MBA or professional certifications (CPM, CPSM, CIRM, CPIM)

• Strategic sourcing experience

• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

• Experience with strategic sourcing and lean tools

• Digital dexterity and ability to leverage data

• Strong knowledge of supply chain strategy (development and execution) and category specific experience

• Independently driven problem solver with appetite to address complex challenges in a fast-moving environment.

• Proven track record of successful leadership, negotiation, and strategic communication

• Strong business acumen and experience collaborating across various levels within a diverse, global organization.