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.
Requirements
- 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
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives
- Retirement Benefits
- Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation
- Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
