.**Job Details**As a part of Johnson Controls Global Products organization, the Global Category Manager is a high visibility position and member of the Electrical and Electronics, Direct Materials Category Management team responsible for developing and driving global category strategies across all Products businesses ensuring our Products businesses source and procure material from preferred suppliers at the best price and the performance of our supply base meets Johnson Controls supplier quality and performance requirements utilizing supply base management, negotiations, and contract management methods.In this role you will provide the supply base and material supply continuity needed to support growth and profit strategies at Johnson Controls. You will work in a high volume and velocity business environment with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that our category strategies represent the full potential value for the company, maintain key supplier relationships, and provide solutions to needs of the Products businesses and Procurement execution teams while managing global, regional, and local sourcing events and programs for both existing and new products.You will develop, communicate, and implement comprehensive category strategies for assigned Electrical or Electronic categories and will be responsible for meeting Procurement KPIs and business objectives including cost reduction, working capital improvement, risk management, and service/quality improvement to Johnson Controls while managing ODM, OEM, and contract manufacturing supplier relationships. You will be expected to develop and maintain supplier relationships at an executive level and lead escalation efforts when needed to secure supply or resolve supplier related issues as they arise.In this role, you will be expected to manage ambiguity, make decisions with or without data, manage multiple priorities and can effectively manage and drive change.You believe that the best work is done in teams - you're seen as a cooperative leader, candid yet fair. You can manage multiple priorities simultaneously because of your excellent project management, organization, and time management skills. You are intellectually curious - driving continual learning for you and your team. You're also interpersonally curious - understanding that internal and external collaboration fuels improvement and best practice.You are seen as a leader and have strong indirect people management skills to influence multidisciplinary teams and peers, and to drive the global PBUs and Regional Teams towards success.**Responsibilities and how you will do it **- The scope of this position is to oversee approximately $200-400M in purchases of Direct Materials for Johnson Controls and to coordinate and execute category strategies in partnership with key internal stakeholders