**What you will do?**:
**You will be responsible for procurement of 3rd party direct materials for JCI's AHU & Data Center Solutions business units. You will also be part of a global category team supporting the Global Category Manager with category strategy development and enterprise compliance to the strategy. A key deliverable of this role is to ensure organizational stakeholders and JCI plant purchasing are executing our category strategies and utilizing our preferred suppliers to ensure we maximize the Total Value of Ownership for JCI.**:
**How you will do it?**:
**Meet or exceed profit plan goals related to: Commodity strategies, cost savings, TWC, quality, supplier rationalization, and other agreed objectives.**:
**Ensure alignment between category management team and the unique/specific needs of stakeholder and site buyers during category strategy development.**:
**Implement category strategies and associated actions to achieve cost reduction goals, including PO-to-PO (Purchasing Order) reductions and rebates.**:
**Control and improve the traceability and transparency of purchasing related savings, manage cost saving tracking and get proper approval on Wave platform.**:
**Support efforts concerning supply base rationalization and supplier development.**:
**Manage and can take lead negotiation projects.**:
**Perform supplier spend analysis including spend patterns by category/ region and supplier.**:
**Implement collaborative optimization strategy.**:
**Qualifications / Requirements**:
**Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.**:
**Advanced English skills**:
**At least 3 years of Procurement experience in a manufacturing environment with a deep understanding of Supply Chain Management.**:
**Good PC / software and project management knowledge/skills.**:
**_ JCI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any protected categories._**: