Spectrum Safety Solutions:
With approximately 1,400 employees operating in more than 20 countries, Spectrum Safety Solutions is a global leader in fire detection and suppression solutions for high-hazard applications across verticals such as critical infrastructure, oil and gas, marine and clean energy. Our global team leverages strong customer relationships across four recognized brands, Det-Tronics, Marioff, Autronica, and Fireye, to deliver differentiated lifecycle solutions and advance growth across key segments. Carved out from Carrier's Fire & Security business in July 2024, Spectrum Safety Solutions is now a privately-held company under the ownership of Sentinel Capital Partners.
About This Role:
Industrial Fire has an opportunity for a Senior Manager Indirect Procurement who can work on a strategic level to ensure that the procurements goals are met. This is an individual contributor role onsite in either Minneapolis, Minnesota, Stamford, Connecticut or Derry, New Hampshire.
Some of the duties will include to manage indirect procurement sourcing strategy and drive productivity; establish logistic and warehouse solutions for the Industrial fire business; and to build strong business partnership with Indirect, Logistic and warehouse suppliers to meet business current and future needs.
We value our people and offer a broad benefits package, with financial rewards including health insurance, retirement savings plan, and lifestyle support with flexible working and parental leave. Plus, we'll support your growth with paid-for external training programs and courses.
Key Responsibilities:
Indirect Sourcing
Provide strategic leadership & oversight for indirect procurement activities & savings opportunities
Operational and spend analysis, development & execution of annual sourcing strategies, vendor negotiations, performance management & operational support.
Develop longer-term strategies to address vendor issues & business process outsourcing opportunities
Partner with digital team on automation solutions to manage indirect procurement
Analyze suppliers' operations to determine factors that affect prices & lowest cost consistent with quality, reliability, & ability to meet required schedules
Responsible for overall relationship & escalations for key vendor accounts
Lead sourcing process from RFQ to contract signature
Ensure suppliers or vendors are performing to the designed requirements from delivery, quality, & cost perspective
Warehousing
Create 1-, 3- and 5-year strategy for warehousing optimization
Own the commercial negotiations & open items with 3PL providers
Oversee the 3PL performance i.e., initial business requirements, competitive sourcing, & implementation
Work closely with local distribution center leaders as escalation point for support & onsite leadership
Lead projects to implement new warehouses, increase automation & improve productivity
Promote the "Carrier Excellence for Warehouses" program, leverage best practices, standard procedures, performance, & innovation across all BU locations & operating regions
Incorporate emerging technologies & business trends in logistics, transportation, & distribution/warehousing into the strategic plan
Maintain regular reviews of metrics & trends, improvements, & variances with all stakeholders & maintain quarterly Distribution Centre (DC) reviews
Manage logistics costs within budget & achieve year over year improvement
Transportation
Support logistics transportation procurement for all modes
Create & maintain preferred vendor routing guides
Work with factories & broader business logistics teams to ensure process, lane & vendor compliance
Leverage data analytics & business intelligence to monitor operational performance & identify optimization opportunities
Ensure air freight compliance to the approved workflow process
Share best practices across sites & businesses to reduce costs and improve efficiency
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree
8+ years indirect or direct procurement experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Master's degree with 5+years global supply chain management experience
Lead a cross-functional global team to achieve results through leadership & influence
Business judgment to drive strategy and results
Excel in a dynamic environment
Lead analysis and resolution of complex problems and evaluate tangible & intangible variables
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