StrategicSourcingBuyer

Job Description **What you will do** As a part of JCI’s Indirect Procurement organization, you will function as a procurement business partner, interfacing directly with one or more business units to ensure category strategies, programs and corporate initiatives are effectively and efficiently deployed. You will also identify cost savings and trade working capital improvement opportunities and create/drive project plans in manufacturing plants, distribution centers and corporate offices in North America. **How you will do it:** * Be a true business partner for the assigned business unit(s). Understand procurement’s role and how this enables true business success. Understand business priorities and key stakeholder expectations, translate these requirements, and ensure corporate category strategies reflect these needs. * Be a spokesperson for the indirect procurement organization. Understand where, how and when indirect procurement can deliver value to the business. Clearly articulate how this relates to business needs, represent, and drive this agenda. * Be the enabler and change agent for the enterprise. Effectively liaise between the assigned business unit, corporate category management team and supporting functions to ensure alignment and accountability in execution and drive action. * Execute spend analysis for your assigned business unit. Identify what we buy, who we buy from, where we buy it, how we buy it and why we buy it. Understand how this fits into the broader indirect procurement landscape and how it can be optimized to meet or exceed annual goals related to savings and trade working capital improvement. * Own the effective and efficient deployment of corporate category strategies for your assigned business units. Drive preferred supplier adoption and utilization to ensure negotiated value is captured. * Drive business facing procurement strategies to standardize, manage demand and drive a lower total cost of ownership for the business. * Support daily s