Technology Purchasing & Contracting Administrator overseeing computer purchasing and vendor management for the State of Vermont. Collaborating with agencies to enhance state operations through IT procurement strategies.
About the role
- Sr. Category Manager at Carrier, leading commodity strategies and supplier negotiations in climate solutions. Managing procurement to support new product development and strategic supplier partnerships.
Responsibilities
- Provide daily/weekly management and support to category/commodity team members while continually developing and expanding individual and team capabilities utilizing the established Managing for Daily/Continuous Improvement (MD/CI) process
- Align with regional and sector functional stakeholders to incorporate product and manufacturing strategies into category/commodity strategy while gaining leadership support.
- Lead category/commodity team members to develop and execute comprehensive Opportunity Assessment for commodity including spend segmentation, commodity maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis.
- Develop Sourcing Strategy for commodity detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits.
- Accountable for execution of sourcing projects including RFx, continuous improvement, consolidation, etc.
- Responsible for defining negotiations strategy including supplier profiles, commercial negotiations targets, defining switching costs, and building Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Developing and executing commodity blocking strategy
- Accountable for all commercial negotiations and supplier selections within commodities - exceed spend under long-term agreement and supplier rationalization targets.
- Accountable for contract lifecycle management and compliance
- Partner with Regional and Sector Procurement teams to ensure delivery of productivity - lead team countermeasures aligned to commodities and regions/sector
- Responsible for management of strategic suppliers through formal Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process to improve supplier performance metrics including quality, delivery, productivity, and innovation.
- Engage with NPD Procurement teams to support new product development (NPD) and new technology introduction (NTI), through preferred supplier and SRM programs
- Accountable for monitoring supplier risk across all responsible commodities while developing and maintaining detailed mitigation plans for critical components and at-risk suppliers
- Accountable for team reporting and managing of category/commodity inflation, both mitigation and recovery
- Accountable for cashflow & spend under contract to meet annual targets.
- Accountable for delivering commodity productivity through price, value analysis (VA) or continuous improvement projects - responsible for supporting regional/sector countermeasures.
- Aggregate category/commodity playbooks across team members and present comprehensive team update during Quarterly Category/commodity Reviews (QCR)
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree
- 7+ years experience Supply Chain or Procurement
- 5+ years experience in Category/commodity Management
- Ability to travel up to 25%
Benefits
- Health Care benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; wellness incentives
- Retirement benefits
- 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
- Military leave
- Purchased vacation
- Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
- Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
- Tuition Assistance
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