.**What do you do?**Join us in the Procurement Execution Center as a **Procurement Manager - Direct Materials**.In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of Analysts to enable our Category Managers and PBU Buyers with an effective execution of our Category Strategies, streamlining our procurement processes, and driving automation and performing meaningful analyses.**How will you do it?**- Lead our team of Analysts to execute multiple Procurement Operations such as eRFQ, data/drawing collection, CLM, fact packs, spend analysis.- Drive process automation, standardization and simplification across the multiple activities executed by the PEC. Best practice sharing across Towers and PBUs must be always pursued.- Build robust process guidelines and playbooks for all employees, to ensure new and existing hires can effectively perform their work and reducing non-value-added steps in the processes.- Hire, coach, develop and promote the best talent to ensure adequate career progression within Procurement.- Support Savings and Cash initiatives by leading ideation sessions with our team of analysts- Drive best practices within Category Management by being a POC for best practice sharing, while aligning processes and practices across Procurement.- Support Market Intelligence activities, Economics measurements, and putting together meaningful reports for different levels of stakeholders.- Drive improvements in our Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) process by ensuring contracts are properly stored in CLM, as well as driving compliance by regularly engaging with Legal to ensure proper contract deployments.- Support Business Continuity Plans (BCP) by deploying actions such as Financial Assessments, Sustainability Surveys, ensuring contracts are executed, among others.- Build and maintain a Master Supplier Contact lists for all of GP Procurement.- Deploy relentless root-cause analysis (RRCA) practices to troubleshoot pricing discrepancies between our bills and ERP prices, to reduce waste within the process and build a more effective PO-Invoice-Pay (PTP) process.- Other procurement duties as assignedQualifications:- ** +6 years' experience in Direct Materials Procurement**. Knowledge of specific categories (Electrical, Electromechanical, Mechanical, Metals) is required.- Strong procurement knowledge**,** including: RFQ processes, strategic negotiation, category management, contract lifecycle management (CLM), PTP process.- Should costing, cost modeling and target costing skills are preferred.- Strong MS Software skills required - advanced excel preferred (e.G. Arrays, INDEX/MATCH).- Ability to influence others and drive continuous improvement, by identifying opportunities, streamlining processes, and utilizing Lean/Quality tools to reduce waste and maximize throughput.- Demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills.- Management of multiple ERPs preferred (SAP, Oracle, MAPICS, MACPAC, among others.- Demonstrate analytical capabilities