Dir, Commodity Management & Sourcing

Carrier • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

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

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years’ experience with Category Management Experience
• Ability to travel up to 30-40% of the time both domestically and internationally

Nice To Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees