Regional Procurement Manager - Remote, US-Northeast

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What we offer: 

• Competitive salary and bonus

• Relocation assistance available

• Paid vacation/holidays/sick time 

• Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care - available day one!

• developmental opportunities 

• Encouraging and collaborative team environment 

• Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy 

What you will do

As the Regional Procurement Manager, you will be the main procurement contact for your assigned Regions.  You will support and manage the selection of 3rd party subcontractors used on JCI projects within your Regions and will work with Sales, Engineering & Operations teams in full support of projects from inception through execution.  You will drive best practices, ensure proper quoting, supplier rationalization, contract execution and lead supplier negotiations upon project award.  You will develop and lead cost saving initiatives in collaboration with category managers and branch teams.  Activities include supplier development, contract management, maintain existing and develop new supplier relationships, supply base rationalization, price negotiations, trade working capital optimization and improve communication between procurement and local branch installation and service offices.  You will directly engage with the Regional Leadership to ensure that you are an active member of their leadership teams and all Regional and branch offices within your areas are aware of your activities and pro-actively working with you to achieve common goals and objectives.

Field Procurement Managers assigned to key markets with your Regions will report directly to the Regional Procurement Manager.

This role is remote and based in the Northeast region. Candidates must reside in the Northeast region to be considered for this role.

How you will do it

The Regional Procurement Manager must be able to develop, align, and implement multiple supply chain strategies to deliver the most cost-effective methods for field teams to procure subcontract labor from suppliers.  A key deliverable of this role is to ensure branch installation and service teams are efficiently executing our supply chain strategies allowing our extended field procurement team to influence a greater percentage of spend to increase year over year savings.  One of your core objectives will be supply base rationalization, where you will work with field leaders to ensure we have the proper qualified suppliers in each market and take leverage full JCI spend to drive cost savings.

• Cost Savings, TWC, quality, supplier rationalization, supplier diversity spend and other agreed objectives.

• Provide input to category management team regarding the unique/specific regional needs during category strategy development.

• Create personal development plans for team members to ensure continuous evolution and development of the team and ensure full alignment with JCI’s overall strategies.

• Work with suppliers and internal teams and act as escalation point to ensure continuity of supply to support the business unit requirements.

• Collaborate with field offices within assigned Areas to identify new/critical products and services to expand the line card product of field offerings.

• Ensure branches are utilizing approved subcontractors and material suppliers as per policy / work instruction.

• Draft and monitor appropriate controls to ensure processes and procedures are performed in a compliant manner. 

• Develop appropriate dashboards, metrics and measures to identify ongoing areas for improvement across all facets of the procurement operation.