Job Description

About This Role

Senior Procurement professional with significant experience. Implements Supply Chain strategies, processes, and operational plans in support of Procurement goals. Develops programs for effective vendor selection and management to minimize the organization's purchasing costs without compromising quality or reliability of supply. Manages and resolves client issues and problems.

Job Description

• Integrate global category strategies with program deliverables
• Partner with engineers on assigned programs to ensure product design includes the category sourcing strategies for concept and engineering check samples
• Prepare and process requests for quotation, requisitions, and purchase orders to support prototype unit builds.
• Project management of supplier activities for assigned commodities and deliverables for program passports.
• Represent supply chain function on cross functional program team. Responsible for delivering program milestones on schedule and product cost at target.
• Facilitate smooth transition of the program to the factory purchasing and materials teams
• Determine inventory stocking and logistics strategies for suppliers with lead times longer than market driven customer lead time requirements
• Assist and execute cost reduction strategies and projects
• Collaborate with category teams to develop regional, alternate qualified sources to ensure a resilient supply chain
• Periodic leadership updates of program status of supply chain deliverables

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• 10+ years of purchasing experience or a cumulative 10+ years purchasing and operations experience
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time (internationally as needed)

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters degree
• HVAC industry experience
• PMP Certification
• Material Requirements Planning (MRP), inventory management, factory assembly processes and bills of material 
• SAP experience
• Energetic and success driven
• Spanish verbal and written communications skills
• Ability to be persuasive and make management presentations
• Succeed in the day-to-day management of competing priorities
• Technical knowledge / understanding of the commercial HVAC product industry or ability to learn expeditiously
• Organized with attention to detail, follow-up and follow-through skills
• Advanced quantitative spreadsheet analysis skills to organize and analyze data efficiently