Johnson Controls

Logistics Category Manager

Johnson Controls

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Wisconsin

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Salary

💰 $89,000 - $115,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

PMP

About the role

  • Working closely with cross-functional teams, develop and lead implementation of global category procurement strategies for assigned Indirect Procurement Logistics categories; key areas of focus include Parcel (small packages), Full Truckload (FTL) and Less Than Truckload (LTL) and other indirect categories as assigned.
  • Lead both traditional and non-traditional supplier procurement activities, ensuring timely execution and focusing on global solutions which improve services and reduce costs
  • Facilitate supplier procurement process and negotiations relative to business requirements and cost, maximizing JCI’s leverage and negotiation position
  • Lead supplier contracting negotiations and execution, collaborating with corporate legal for escalation of certain risk-related terms and conditions
  • Identify, develop and maintain relationships with internal stakeholders to increase engagement and develop a robust procurement project pipeline across all business segments of manufacturing, corporate and service (branches)
  • For each procurement project, ensure project alignment and drive collaborative procurement efforts with the necessary cross-functional counterparts and matrix teams (e.g. Risk Management, Compliance, Legal, Operations, etc.) to maximize transactional efficiency and mitigate potential risks
  • Identify, develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers to understand the suppliers’ current services for the company as well as additional capabilities
  • Gain a comprehensive understanding of business and functional strategic roadmaps and resulting business requirements, as related to assigned categories
  • Drive cost out targets for the supply management organization; calculate and report savings
  • Drive compliance of enterprise agreements
  • Assist with key supplier issue resolution and risk mitigation, as required
  • Maintain a comprehensive knowledge of marketplace, benchmarks and industry best practices for assigned categories

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from four-year college or university is required
  • Advanced degree in business, finance, and/or legal is highly desirable
  • 6+ years related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience is required
  • Significant negotiating experience is required
  • Operational and procurement experience
  • Prior contracting experience (negotiation, implementation, management of agreements) is required
  • Fluency to speak and write in English
  • Preferred Extensive project management experience and/or PMP certification
  • Operational and/or procurement experience in most if not all of the assigned Indirect Categories
  • Leadership and Project Management Skills
  • Ability to lead complex procurement events and demonstrated negotiation skills
  • Ability to influence others and manage competing internal stakeholder priorities
  • Ability to generate alternative solutions for consideration to increase total value to the organization while reducing cost and minimizing risk
  • Ability to develop and communicate vision and strategic procurement initiatives, both verbally and in writing, to internal and external stakeholders
  • Demonstrated project management capabilities to lead multiple and complex projects
  • Demonstrated capability to translate strategies into executable implementation plans
  • Ability to identify new procurement opportunities
  • Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with diverse groups of people in a global, matrix organization
  • Clear problem-solving skills
  • Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
  • Sound prioritization skills to balance multiple tasks simultaneously
  • Comfort with ambiguity
  • Ability to embrace change in the organization
  • Supply Market Knowledge and Indirect Procurement Knowledge
  • In-depth knowledge of key industry drivers and dynamics, Understanding of categories and category-specific procurement processes/issues/strategies
  • Understanding of current supplier markets, products, customer demands, and future trends
  • In-depth knowledge of variety of procurement implementation approaches (e.g. RFX, e-auction)
  • Strong contract development skills
  • Supplier Management and Stakeholder Management Skills
  • In-depth knowledge of pricing issues, service levels, and supplier contracts
  • Ability to develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers/customers, understand supplier/customer organization and operations and identify new opportunities
  • Ability to perform sustained supplier performance management and continuous improvement
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills & ability to influence without formal authority
  • Demonstrated presentation skills and ability to interact with all levels of the organization
  • Analytical Skills
  • Strong financial analytical skills for conducting data analytics, cost modeling, business case development, reporting, and proactive interaction with Corporate Finance functional stakeholders
  • Ability to effectively forecast impact of procurement initiatives with accuracy to P&L
  • Ability to conduct bench-marking or other analysis to track global spend and savings
  • Ability to think strategically about key procurement and financial issues and quantify the underlying implications
  • Comprehension of company financials and implication on market power
  • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word