Title:  Senior Procurement Manager

Summary:

As the Senior Manager of Procurement, you will drive company-wide strategic procurement initiatives for the 3 North American sites, optimize supplier relationships, and lead a high-performance team to ensure smooth production, while achieving cost savings and operational efficiency gains.  You will be a key member of the management team, driving process and cost optimization, and will have ownership of a procurement team focused on strategic procurement, supplier negotiation and relationship management, and master data governance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supplier and Contract Management: Negotiate favorable terms, oversee contract lifecycle management, and establish diversified sourcing strategies
• Performance Optimization: Build and lead a results-driven accountable procurement team, ensuring operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Supply Chain Analytics and KPI Tracking: Develop metrics and reporting frameworks to measure procurement performance and drive data-driven decision-making.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive procurement strategy for key cost commodities ensuring a successful supply chain in order to meet customer requirements.
• Develop strong relationships and implement alternate sourcing strategies with critical suppliers.
• Negotiate and manage contract lifecycle, including renewals of existing contracts and onboarding for vendors/suppliers into procurement process.
• Collaborate with key internal stakeholders including legal, manufacturing, quality, finance, and IT, ensuring procurement processes are efficient and transparent, and meet established controls and standards.
• Monitor company-wide inventory levels, providing the oversight and guidance needed to maintain the right inventory levels while minimizing slow-moving and obsolete parts.
• Develop the procurement team members, providing sufficient training to ensure they can handle the tasks efficiently as the business grows.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Accounting, or a related field.
• 10+ years in strategic procurement leadership and successful operational procurement in a manufacturing environment.
• An advanced degree or professional certification (CPIM, APICS, CPSM) highly desirable.
• Proven experience in leading procurement transformation initiatives and driving continuous improvement in the supply chain.
• Comprehensive understanding of procure-to-pay workflows and their impact on business, finance, and procurement operations.
• Experience in the air conditioning /humidification industry preferred.
• Strong analytical capabilities to identify cost-saving opportunities, analyze spending trends, and make data-driven decisions.
• Collaboration with cross functional leaders and stakeholders for process optimization and cost savings opportunities.
• Proficiency in SAP (ECC or HANA), Ariba and analytic tools strongly preferred.

• Ability to travel 15-20%.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:

Language Skills:

• Ability to follow written and verbal instructions. 
• Ability to read and write in English. 
• Ability to speak effectively with employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills:

• Basic math skills required.

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, use hands to finger, reach with hands and arms; stoop, and talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to walk.  The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to _50__ pounds.  Specific vision ability required by this job includes close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an office environment in a manufacturing plant.