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
eRFx, 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 assigned.
Qualifications:

* 5+ 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.
* Capability to learn and understand the business and the assigned
categories, to develop business judgment, which will allow the candidate to
better execute and generate value for JCI.
* Management of multiple ERPs preferred (SAP, Oracle, MAPICS, MACPAC, among
others.
* Demonstrate analytical capabilities. Data skills and software is a plus.
* APICS or ISM CPSM training or certifications are a plus.
* Business/conversational English is a must due to the nature of the role and
Japanese is plus.