Senior Category Manager, Valves

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About the Role

Carrier is hiring for a Senior Category Manager. This position will develop a strategic plan for the valves. commodity. They are responsible for the overall relationship for multiple strategic suppliers for this specific commodity group.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for building short and long-term steel 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

• Responsible for building short and long-term steel 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.

• 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.

• Coordinate appropriately with supplier quality team for specific commodity issues including relentless root cause analysis and error-proofing to mitigate impact to the business

• Lead in negotiating prices, assessing supplier capabilities, selecting new suppliers, narrowing supplier base, and working with suppliers to establish mutually beneficial relationships and improve their ability to provide quality, cost effective materials while minimizing inventory

• Ensure compliance with applicable federal and/or state laws, regulations, and/or company policies, procedures, work rules, standards and guidelines, etc.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of sourcing and category management experience, or Master’s degree and 5+ years of sourcing and category management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Supply chain management professional certifications (CPM, CPSM, CIRM, CPIM)

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills

• Cost reduction project leadership experience in a related environment preferred

• Technical acumen / understanding of commodity management and ability to quickly learn products and industry

• Ability to work effectively with cross-cultural suppliers on technical and logistics issues

• Highly organized with strong at