.**How will you make an impact?**The **Sr Procurement Manager - Mechanical**, drives the execution of sophisticated global category strategies vital to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates and leads a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and handles selected supplier relationships.**What will you do?**- Responsible for strategy input and implementation for complex and strategic categories- Delivers key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc- Develops multi year global sourcing strategies passionate about identifying and contracting with selected suppliers that meet key business category management goals**Technical Responsibilities**:- Applies structured Category Management process to provide input into category strategies- Analyzes market intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Proficient in category and supplier segmentation to optimally focus on key suppliers- Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other colleagues to qualify key suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers- Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals- Leads supplier based business reviews with selected suppliers to drive strategic priorities as well as lead key performance indicators- Represents and drives key initiatives with suppliers including Diversity, Sustainability and Risk Assessment- Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy**Leadership Responsibilities**:- Influences cross-functional colleagues(quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities. Influence without authority- Ensures category strategies and priorities are aligned with divisional business priorities- Works with external supply partners and leads cross-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance- Selectively may work to develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers (e.G. tool/asset management)- Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics- Acts as a coach/mentor to colleagues on category strategy process**How will you get here?**- Bachelor's degree in Business or technical field
