Associate Director Strategic Sourcing, Finished Goods and Contract Manufacturing

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Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world-class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day. Join us and we can make a difference together.

About this role

The Associate Director, Strategic Sourcing will lead Carriers centralized $600M+ category consisting of Finished Goods and Contract Manufacturing. This role is a key part of the Global Supply Chain organization, reporting to the Global Head of Sourcing.

This leader is responsible for providing sustained competitive advantage in product cost, quality, and production flexibility across Carrier’s global footprint, and will be responsible for working across the business units, functions, and all global locations to develop and implement best-in-class sourcing strategies and procedures.

With a global team, 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Manages global category spend for approximately $600M.

• Responsible for building short and long-term Finished Goods category strategy to ensure operational excellence and efficiencies are met

• 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

• Develops and implements a category strategy which optimizes affordability, availability, agility, and innovation. Leverages understanding of similar industry, sourcing concepts, and Lean tools to ensure parts delivered on time at best cost and quality.

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

• Collaborate within the Global Strategic Sourcing team and across Product Management and Engineering to align on long-term strategy, technology roadmap, and risk mitigation

• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets, competitors, and product innovations

• Build and develop a team of Finished Goods experts to drive global performance

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 10+ years of experience in sourcing environment and familiarity with industrial operations

Preferred Qualifications

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

• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

• Excellent negotiation skills & strategic mindset

• Experience with strategic sourcing and lean tools

• Digital dexterity and ability to leverage data

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

• Independently driven problem solver with appetite to address complex challenges in a fast-moving environment

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

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

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