Job Description

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About this role

The Purchasing Manager will oversee the procurement function to ensure that customer orders are fulfilled on time while maintaining operational goals.
This position reports directly to the Strategic Supply Chain Manager, collaborating with the full spectrum of Kidde Fenwal leaders, including product management, operations, finance, engineering, and sales.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify tools, processes and metrics to optimize supplier value
• Maintain and provide current understanding of industry best practices and technology trends
• Lead by example and motivate team to create a challenging, empowering, and collaborative working environment
• Leverage metrics and other tools to drive supplier performance and on-time delivery
• Negotiate contractual conditions to include materials indices, delivery dates and shipping terms
• Provide leadership on purchase of materials and services for projects
• Ensure uninterrupted product supply from supplies in accordance with project needs to support production activities
• Monitor supplier performance and on time delivery, with support of tactical buyers for data collection
• Lead project and functional teams in area of expertise
• Prepare, monitor and budget staffing and business/operational activities of the functional ream
• Directly manage individual contributors as well as supervisors and/or group leaders as necessary
• Coordinate with cross-functional business teams to develop the best strategy for production planning to support customer demand
• Establish and implement methods and best practices related to the systems and process that support inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control
• Coordinate and work with quality, engineering, machining and assembly operations to ensure 100% on-time delivery by establishing and monitoring schedule to proactively identify and address any issues
• Achieve financial objectives by working with management group to prepare the materials budget, schedule expenditures, analyze variances and initiate corrective actions
• Participate as a member of the operations team in making cross-functional operational decisions
• Participate in MRB and CAR meetings to resolve quality issues working with both internal and external resources
• Collaborate with Engineering, Manufacturing, Process Engineering and Quality to achieve cost reduction targets

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 4+ years of experience in manufacturing, operations or supply chain

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge and understanding of ERP/MRP systems and their use in a manufacturing environment
• Good technical writing, documentation, and record keeping skills
• Strong analytical problem-solving ability (proficient use of analytical tools such as Excel, etc.)
• Leadership skills with demonstrated experience in leading in a cross functional collaborative environment
• Project management skills with ability to manage multiple projects to implementation
• Experience in total quality, six sigma, or other similar environments
• Experience in implementing LEAN processes
• APICS certified CPIM

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