Senior Procurement Manager, NPI Air-Cooled Platform
Job Number: 8374
External Description:
Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse 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 the Role
The Senior Procurement Manager is responsible for sourcing and procurement activities to support new product development and launches in the North America Commercial HVAC Equipment Supply Chain group. This position will have a focus on Carriers Data Center initiatives.
Performing both tactical and strategic sourcing tasks, the Senior Procurement Manager manages all aspects of the sourcing and procurement process to ensure a smooth transition of activity to the producing factory Purchasing and Materials teams. Internal focus on driving WHQ sourcing strategies and platform commonality of design with the Europe and Asia platforms. External focus on developing and maintaining excellent supplier relationships, develop existing and new sources, and develop sourcing strategies to continuously improve supply chain resiliency and product cost.
Key Responsibilities
Manage the sourcing specialists who have assigned commodities
Represent supply chain in the global platform management team and influence program scope to leverage global sourcing strategies and suppliers
Meet cost targets, program launch milestones and maintaining platform metrics
Integrate global category strategies with program deliverables
Drive standard work for the sourcing processes i.e., sourcing strategies, procurement plans, request for quotations, sample part procurement, supplier and part qualification and transition to factory sustaining team
Locate suppliers of materials and components and perform quantitative supplier selection for new products
Support sourcing leads to negotiate contracts and formulate policies with suppliers including inventory stocking strategies to meet market lead time requirements and management of supplier activities in support of program milestones and production launch
Drive commodity strategy goals for cost reduction and Days-Payable-Outstanding (DPO) improvement
Develop regional, alternate qualified sources to ensure a resilient supply chain
Coach and mentor members of the NPI sourcing team
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree
8+ years of purchasing, supply chain, or operations experience within industrial manufacturing
Preferred Qualifications
HVAC industry experience
Material Requirements Planning (MRP), inventory management, factory assembly processes and bills of material
Energetic and success driven
English 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
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Job Number: 30185575
Community / Marketing Title: Senior Procurement Manager, NPI Air-Cooled Platform
Location_formattedLocationLong: North Carolina, US