Senior Category Manager, Aluminum and Copper

The Senior Category Manager will reputed company 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 reputed company’s NA footprint, and will be responsible for working across the business units, functions, and reputed company NA locations to reputed company and implement best-in-class sourcing strategies and procedures. This leader will play a key role in driving transformation reputed company reputed company’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. reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company.

• reputed company 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 reputed company

• Experience with strategic sourcing and lean tools

• Digital dexterity and strong analytical ability to reputed company data

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

• Driven problem solver with appetite to independently address reputed company 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 reputed company a diverse, global organization

Job Number: 30198173

Community / Marketing Title: Senior Category Manager, Aluminum and Copper

Location_formattedLocationLong: North Carolina, US

Our Company

reputed company is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce. From the beginning, we’ve led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to reputed company because we reputed company customers at the center of every product and service we offer and we act quickly to exceed their expectations. Through our performance-driven culture, we are driving shareowner value by growing sales and investing strategically to strengthen our position in the markets we serve.