What you will do

• Lead functionally Indirect buyers to deliver results on key financial metrics – Yearly cost savings and trade working capital improvement, in Professional services scope including Marketing, Finance, HR, Insurance, travel, and other related service, with spend of $105m
• Support global 12 manufacturing sites and multiple sales entities to meet their business objectives by managing Professional service sourcing.
• This role solid line reporting to: Indirect Category Director of JCH.

How you will do it

• Develop category strategy to manage suppliers of Professional service to support S&OP practice with competitive cost and agile responsiveness.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and support to buyers to execute Category Strategies at sites.
• Participates in JCI Global related Indirect Procurement Categories strategy definition and optimize usage of global agreements ensuring leverage from the Global agreements to all regions.
• Strive towards achieving world class supplier performance by driving continuous improvement initiatives and active collaboration with strategic suppliers, supplier rationalization, value engineering, knowledge-based sourcing etc.
• Create, manage and communicate RFX documents for Professional service requirements, leading the Global tender process through tender evaluation, post tender negotiation, Supplier Adds, contracting, purchase order and delivery.
• Maintain a global supplier contact database for all Global Professional service Procurement.

What you will need

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Diploma preferably in Supply Chain Management.  MBA would be preferred
• Min. 7-8 years in Large Manufacturing or Multi-industry global organization
• Min. 10 (5+) years of experience in a Strategic Sourcing role, supporting multiple Plants & Regions in the scope of Professional service.
• Capability to interface with Senior Leadership across Regions both internally & externally
• In depth understanding of purchasing tools and practice (E-auction, E-RFX, BI Tools etc.)_
• Strong MS Office skills– focus on Excel proficiency. 
• Strong costing & analytical skills
• Working knowledge of SAP or other equivalent ERP systems
• Travel 20% (Global and Domestic)
• Ability to analyze and learn cost structure models in different regions.
• Strong procurement fundamentals, such as: RFx process, cost modeling, contract negotiation, principles of category management, forecasting, negotiations, among others. 
• Capability to synthesize large amounts of data, to effectively communicate with key stakeholders, including Procurement, Supply Chain, Marketing, Finance, and HR leaders.