Senior Category Manager, Aluminum and Copper

About Carrier

Carrier Global Corporation, 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 safe transport of food, lifesaving 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 on Carrier social media at @Carrier.

The Senior Category Manager will lead Carriers centralized $180M+ Copper and Aluminum categories spend. This role is a key part of the CSA Supply Chain organization, reporting to the Associate Director for Copper & Aluminum Sourcing Leader.

This leader is responsible for providing sustained competitive advantage in product cost, quality, and production flexibility across Carrier’s NA footprint, and will be responsible for working across the business units, functions, and all NA locations to develop and implement best-in-class sourcing strategies and procedures. This leader will play a key role in driving transformation within Carrier’s supply chain organization to provide the company significant savings, increasing productivity, managing inflation/deflation, and driving excellence in category strategy

Job Responsibilities:

• Manages global category spend for approximately $180M.

• Responsible for building and executing category strategy for Copper and Aluminum material which optimizes affordability, availability, agility, and innovation. Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors, and product innovations.

• Establishes a cross-functional network and fosters collaboration with suppliers, wider supply chain organization, engineering, quality, and product management

• Owns the vendor performance data and reports metrics to leadership

• Manages external relationships with suppliers and assumes responsibility for all internal activities and decisions associated with the assigned categories and suppliers, including contract negotiations, new products development, approved vendor lists, re-sourcing, dual qualification, pricing changes, quality, and capacity.

• Develop the commodity management team to drive global performance in collaboration with regional commodity teams and the Center of Excellence team.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree

• 7+ year’s experience with strategic sourcing for a global industrial manufacturer

• 30% travel including some international trips

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or professional certifications (CPM, CPSM, CIRM, CPIM) 

• Excellent negotiation skills & strategic mindset

• Experience with strategic sourcing and lean tools

• Digital dexterity and strong analytical ability to leverage data

• Strong knowledge of supply chain strategy (development and execution) and category specific experience 

• Driven problem solver with appetite to independently address complex challenges in a fast-moving environment

• Proven track record of successful leadership, negotiation, and executive communication

• Strong business acumen and experience collaborating across various levels within a diverse, global organization

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $117,500.00 - $234,500.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Other Compensation

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

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 leave; military leave; purchased vacation

• Disability: Short-term an