Associate Manager of Procurement overseeing a team for efficient goods acquisition at L3Harris Technologies. Responsibilities include contract negotiation and supplier collaboration.
About the role
- Category Manager for Medtronic's electronics division overseeing supply management and supplier negotiations. Drive performance improvements between suppliers and the organization across multiple categories.
Responsibilities
- Advocate on behalf of the supply management function with business units and operational partners
- Negotiate contracts that provide year-over-year benefits in performance
- Identify and develop business cases for a healthy year-over-year cost reduction pipeline with suppliers
- Perform market analysis in identifying the best cost country sourcing
- Provide guidance to technical sourcing and engineering with supplier innovations
- Proactively develop forward buy agreements where appropriate
- Define and manage winning category strategies and approaches with suppliers
- Manage supplier relationships and drive performance improvements
- Lead regular business reviews with suppliers
- Analyze received quotations, select or recommend new suppliers
- Rationalize existing supplier base through stratification, market analysis, supplier development, and supplier consolidation
- Support new and ongoing supplier quality audit activities
- Conduct supply chain risk reviews
- Identify and utilize metrics, tools, business intelligence, and processes to optimize sourcing
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
- Highly skilled in developing and executing negotiation strategies
- Understanding of electronic component commodity market trends and manufacturing process technologies
- Skilled in developing category strategies, contract reviews, lean manufacturing, business case development, BCR sourcing experience, and product/process transfer/change requirements in a regulatory environment
- Experience using lean methodology processes in a manufacturing environment is a plus
- Negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Good organization, project management, and follow-through skills
- High proficiency in Microsoft, Excel, Analytics, and SAP experience preferred
- Ability to travel to vendor locations is required - domestic and international
Benefits
- Health, Dental and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
- Life insurance
- Long-term disability leave
- Dependent daycare spending account
- Tuition assistance/reimbursement
- Simple Steps (global well-being program)
- Incentive plans
- 401(k) plan plus employer contribution and match
- Short-term disability
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- Non-qualified Retirement Plan Supplement
- Capital Accumulation Plan (available to Vice Presidents and above)
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