SENIOR PROCUREMENT ETO CLUSTER MANAGER

Company: Schneider Electric
Location: Franklin
Posted on: September 2, 2024

Job Description:

The Procurement Cluster Manager - ETO, is responsible to lead, develop and operationalize the procurement plan for a group of plants of ETO (Enginering to Order) cluster, by executing and delivering the supplier and financial performance for a group of plants of ETO cluster. This position is a team management role to be based in Nashville, TN , with traveling necessary to perform the core responsibilities of the role.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Focusing on Supply Chain Resiliency.
• Ensure Business continuity respective ETO(Engineering to Order) business scope.
• Work closely with Supply Chain planning team and category management to ensure Resiliency program / capacity enhancement program in place for respective scope.
• Work closely with Line of Business and North America Region ETO industrial team to prepare future evolution of ETO Procurement function towards business growth and Industrial footprint.
• Manage day to day operation with ETO specific suppliers for respective scope.
• Ensure the involvement of the procurement function, the introduction of supplier strategies as earlier as possible in the project stage.
• Plan and deploy procurement levers to drive cost savings and performance improvement.
• Drives productivity projects such as Quality Value Engineering (QVE), Change of Supplier (COS)/Re-balancing, Lean at Supplier.
• Formulate cross functional levers for Supplier performance, innovation, and sustainable growth with key stakeholder validation.
• Develop and maintain productivity forecasts.
• Maintain and track performance dashboard, accountable for the consolidated cluster productivity performance.
• Support & align development and execution of procurement categories strategy.
• Support negotiation. Ownership of delegated global Negotiations and regional categories.
• Share Strategy, Supplier base and best practices with the organization.
• Maintains accuracy of financial records at the cluster level and drive the Annual Procurement Operational Plan (APOP)
• Manage Regional cross functional team partnership with the Business Owners.
• Compliance to Procurement Excellence System (PES)
• Lead of team of 10+ procurement professionals across 5-7 plants in North America.
• This position has travel expectations of 25% within North America.
  Who will you report to? NAM ETO Procurement Leader
  
  What qualifications will make you successful for this role?
  
  • Bachelors in supply chain management or engineering or any other related field is required MBA (Preferred - not mandatory).
  • Minimum 5 years' experience of ETO business.
  • Be able to navigate in a complex environment and organization.
  • Be able to connect with people and create strong networking in ETO organization.
  • Be able to build strong relationship with Plant's different teams.
  • Be able to influence, convince and drive positive change management.
  • Customer Centric, Strategic Thinking, Decision Maker, Problem Solving.
  • Capability of handling multiple tasks and priorities.
  • Have full accountability and leadership of the topics managing end to end governance.
  • Navigate and adapt in front of different stakeholders and peers.
  • Experience in procurement or category management.
  • Effective communication - ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner internally as well as externally.
    We know skills and competencies show up in many ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.
    
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