Sr. Category Manager

Carrier • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

About Carrier: Carrier, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure the safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier. About This Role: The Sr. Category Manager will provide daily leadership to the commodity team to ensure the development and execution of category strategies that exceed both short- and long-term targets. In this role, you own all commercial negotiations and supplier selections, while managing strategic partnerships and monitoring risk through a formal SRM process. Additionally, you will partner closely with Project and NPD teams to ensure procurement effectively supports all new product development initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree
• 7+ years experience Supply Chain or Procurement
• 5+ years experience in Category/commodity Management
• Ability to travel up to 25%

Nice To Haves

• Masters Degree
• Strong Analytic experience
• Strong negotiation skills
• Experience with large complex cross functional projects
• Direct experience in the development and management of a global supply base is preferred

Responsibilities

• Provide daily/weekly management and support to category/commodity team members while continually developing and expanding individual and team capabilities utilizing the established Managing for Daily/Continuous Improvement (MD/CI) process
• Align with regional and sector functional stakeholders to incorporate product and manufacturing strategies into category/commodity strategy while gaining leadership support.
• Lead category/commodity team members to develop and execute comprehensive. Opportunity Assessment for commodity including spend segmentation, commodity maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis.
• Develop Sourcing Strategy for commodity detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits.
• Accountable for execution of sourcing projects including RFx, continuous improvement, consolidation, etc.
• Responsible for defining negotiations strategy including supplier profiles, commercial negotiations targets, defining switching costs, and building Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Developing and executing commodity blocking strategy
• Accountable for all commercial negotiations and supplier selections within commodities - exceed spend under long-term agreement and supplier rationalization targets.
• Accountable for contract lifecycle management and compliance
• Partner with Regional and Sector Procurement teams to ensure delivery of productivity - lead team countermeasures aligned to commodities and regions/sector
• Responsible for management of strategic suppliers through formal Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process to improve supplier performance metrics including quality, delivery, productivity, and innovation.
• Engage with NPD Procurement teams to support new product development (NPD) and new technology introduction (NTI), through preferred supplier and SRM programs
• Accountable for monitoring supplier risk across all responsible commodities while developing and maintaining detailed mitigation plans for critical components and at-risk suppliers
• Accountable for team reporting and managing of category/commodity inflation, both mitigation and recovery
• Accountable for cashflow & spend under contract to meet annual targets.
• Accountable for delivering commodity productivity through price, value analysis (VA) or continuous improvement projects - responsible for supporting regional/sector countermeasures.
• Aggregate category/commodity playbooks across team members and present comprehensive team update during Quarterly Category/commodity Reviews (QCR)

Benefits

• Employees are eligible for benefits, including:
• 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; military leave; purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance
• To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here: Work With Us | Carrier Corporate
• The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
• This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level