.Responsibilities:Deliver year over year cost savings and productivity.Lead product development commodity strategies in line with corporate initiatives to improve supply chain efficiencies and reduce the total cost of supply chain management.Provide commodity support to New Product Teams as required to meet target costs and establish program cost models.Build collaborative working relationships with other Supply Chain departments to collectively optimize business performance.Develop ongoing planning to reflect changes in the supplier and industry landscape, matching the needs of the organization, and communicate this information on an ongoing basis.Negotiate and execute purchase orders or supplier contracts as needed to support the critical business needs.Establish and maintain measurable key performance metrics for all levels of procurement activities to include but not limited to supplier performance, supplier quality, internal order placement performance, buyer activity levels, financial (AP) performance, and material shortage elimination.Manage material flow to ensure inventory is maintained to the optimum level to support on time customer deliveries while keeping inventory holdings at the appropriate levels.Manage all activities that develop relationships with suppliers.Develop an overall supplier base which creates and sustains a competitive advantage, via global market exploitation, leveraging spend, and leveraging of technologies.Define an end-to-end strategy focusing on total life cycle management.Owner of RFI's, RFP's and RFQ's - ensuring all commercial terms are agreed and documented.Ensure NDA, SOW's and Master Purchase Agreement are positioned appropriately before business is initiated.Drive price negotiations processes to ensure that Vertiv's commodity pricing are best in class.Address all areas of category management including category business plans, global market and pricing analysis and procurement support.Monitor current category market conditions, technology roadmaps and identify supply/demand challenges & opportunities.Analyze current spend and evaluate current suppliers. Consolidate spend across supply base to create leverage, analyze purchasing trends and develop sourcing alternatives. Identify new high potential suppliers on global basis.Develop key performance measures for chosen suppliers and negotiate on multiple variables to award longer-term strategic contracts that result in significant cost reduction and improved service levels.Lead the vendor selection process with engineering teams.Evaluate supplier business proposals and present recommendations that will result in cost savings, avoidance or containment.Develop sourcing and negotiation strategies that deliver against business objectives and achieves sustainable relationships with suppliers.Create competitive environments with suppliers to support a negotiation strategy