Sr. Category Manager, Mechanical Systems

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Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company®, operating over 260 data centers across the globe. Digital leaders harness Equinix's trusted platform to bring together and interconnect foundational infrastructure at software speed. Equinix enables organizations to access all the right places, partners and possibilities to scale with agility, speed the launch of digital services, deliver world-class experiences and multiply their value, while supporting their sustainability goals.

Joining our operations team means that you will be at the forefront of all we do, maintaining critical facilities infrastructure as part of a close-knit team delivering best-in-class service to our data center customers. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

Job Summary

Accountable for all technical scope for Medium Voltage, Medium/Low Voltage Transformers, Protection & Control and Generator categories. Manages multiple and complex categories with cross-functional and regionally diverse teams up to executive staff. May participate in the development of the business strategy while impacting business direction through the development of innovative strategies or services. Accountable for building, creating and managing the category plan(s). Responsible for proactive communications to leadership regarding plan(s) performance and collaborating closely regarding SWOT areas.  May support both regional and global category management functions. 

Responsibilities

Category Strategy 

• Drives a global perspective in determining and executing on category strategy

• Leads a vendor management strategy to reduce and consolidate global vendors for the category

• Develops, communicates and executes against consistent global procurement strategies and best practices

• Establishes and delivers procurement goals, metrics, and work plans to meet operational objectives

• Accountable for spend category management strategies and action plans

• Monitors and maintains full industry and market knowledge of category, suppliers, best practices, competitive landscape, etc. 

• Communicate and collaborate with all key stakeholders including executive level staff to ensure alignment of the overall strategy

• Communicate and implement strategy effectively throughout the relevant teams

Product Development 

• Leads global standardization and regional productization

• Establishes and delivers technical, engineering and procurement deliverables for products

• Drives cross-functional technical engagements with internal and external stakeholders. 

• Accountable for new product insertion implementation and process

• Ownership of full product lifecycle, from inception through general availability to end of life

• Drive product innovation and value engineering

Supplier Management 

• Leads the end-to-end supplier management process

• Builds and maintains supplier relationships and drives improvement in the areas of cost, risk, and quality