Regional Procurement Manager

What you will do

As the Regional Procurement Manager, you will be the main procurement contact for your assigned Regions.  You will support and manage the selection of 3rd party subcontractors used on JCI projects within your Regions and will work with Sales, Engineering & Operations teams in full support of projects from inception through execution.  You will drive best practices, ensure proper quoting, supplier rationalization, contract execution and lead supplier negotiations upon project award.  You will develop and lead cost saving initiatives in collaboration with category managers and branch teams.  Activities include supplier development, contract management, maintain existing and develop new supplier relationships, supply base rationalization, price negotiations, trade working capital optimization and improve communication between procurement and local branch installation and service offices.  You will directly engage with the Regional Leadership to ensure that you are an active member of their leadership teams and all Regional and branch offices within your areas are aware of your activities and pro-actively working with you to achieve common goals and objectives.

Field Procurement Managers assigned to key markets with your Regions will report directly to the Regional Procurement Manager.

How you will do it

The Regional Procurement Manager must be able to develop, align, and implement multiple supply chain strategies to deliver the most cost-effective methods for field teams to procure subcontract labor from suppliers.  A key deliverable of this role is to ensure branch installation and service teams are efficiently executing our supply chain strategies allowing our extended field procurement team to influence a greater percentage of spend to increase year over year savings.  One of your core objectives will be supply base rationalization, where you will work with field leaders to ensure we have the proper qualified suppliers in each market and take leverage full JCI spend to drive cost savings.

• Cost Savings, TWC, quality, supplier rationalization, supplier diversity spend and other agreed objectives.

• Provide input to category management team regarding the unique/specific regional needs during category strategy development.

• Create personal development plans for team members to ensure continuous evolution and development of the team and ensure full alignment with JCI’s overall strategies.

• Work with suppliers and internal teams and act as escalation point to ensure continuity of supply to support the business unit requirements.

• Collaborate with field offices within assigned Areas to identify new/critical products and services to expand the line card product of field offerings.

• Ensure branches are utilizing approved subcontractors and material suppliers as per policy / work instruction.

• Draft and monitor appropriate controls to ensure processes and procedures are performed in a compliant manner. 

• Develop appropriate dashboards, metrics and measures to identify ongoing areas for improvement across all facets of the procurement operation.

• Establish annual goals for Field Procurement Managers on your team providing support, guidance and clear expectations in alignment with business priorities to ensure the success of your team, overall procurement and the business.  Ensure that quality and delivery requirements are met.

• Work JCI legal department on the execution of supplier contracts to ensure contracts are issued in accordance with corporate terms and conditions

• Guarantee compliance with Business Operating Standards and Delegation Of Authority requirements.

• Establish and maintain effective relationships with suppliers and internal customers.

• Track and report project-based cost savings.

• Ensure validation and approval guidelines are met.

• Cultivate and promote diverse supplier relationships.

• Work with regional teams to report project based diverse sourcing opportunities.

• Align procurement metrics with the Area leadership teams and communicate regularly with internal customers.

What we look for

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required

• 5-8 years of procurement experience; construction procurement is favored

• 5-8 years of field project management with experience in the construction industry and/or HVAC, Fire and Security trades. Electrical industry/ installation knowledge a plus.

• Ability to negotiate with subcontractors in the electrical and mechanical industry.

• Ability to read blue prints, scope of work documents, understand cost assumptions and local labor laws to ensure project requirements are met.

• Experience in cost analysis and strong financial knowledge

• Must be experienced with Microsoft Excel and Office suite of products, Email & Online Reporting Tools

• Must be goal-oriented, with ability to track daily/weekly/monthly project activity and results

• 1-2 years of managing a team is preferred

• Candidates must be self-motivated, with strong inter-personal skills to ensure compliance from sales, administrative, engineering and operations teams; looking for strong personalities able to engage & develop shared cooperation between diverse teams of employees

• Effectively work with people at all levels both inside and outside the organization.

• Ability to empower others to achieve results through professional motivation, recognition and performance feedback. Candidate should coach and develop best-in-class organization.

• Provide leadership not only to their direct team but also branch teams and greater procurement team to establish and achieve team goals and objectives.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to express information and ideas in a professional manner to JCI employees, suppliers and customers at all levels.  Strong English skills required.  Multi language capabilities preferred.

• Ability to take action, make informed decisions and generate ideas to improve overall business performance on key metrics directly influenced by this position.

• Ability to influence decisions & results even when all elements are not under the individual’s direct control.

• Establish goals consistent with company objectives and to adapt plans to a changing environment.

• Ability to work remotely (preference with US-North East) with travel

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