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*join a team recognized for leadership, innovation and diversity*:honeywell procurement has an opening for a sr category manager based in monterrey, nl, mexico.
reporting directly to the strategic sourcing director for facilities and global real estate, this role is part of the indirect procurement team and will lead develop and implementation of sourcing strategy for major categories of global real estate spend, including categories such as construction, interior design, furniture and transaction management.
*key tasks and responsibilities*:the role of senior category manager is to lead sourcing strategy development and implementation for key global real estate globally.- leads in responsible area to deliver aggressive year over year savings via price reduction, value engineering and consumption reduction.- improve working capital performance by increasing payment days.- deploy auctions to competitively bid responsible areas.- leads the development of category strategies incorporating supplier rationalization, quality, cost, service requirements, market conditions and preferred supplier listings.- closely aligns with sbg and coe functional leadership to ensure coordination and integration of procurement strategies.- ensure effective and timely negotiation of all supplier agreements and holds regular business reviews with key suppliers.- develops metrics to analyze and measure supplier's performance against commitments.- develop staff to ensure personal growth and development.- create succession plans to ensure long term skillsets and capabilities exist on the team.
*you must have*- bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, procurement, supply chain or business.
have certifications from apics, pmi, cpsm or formal training on procurement.- mba/master's degree preferred- 3+ years' experience in construction/project management procurement- excellent communication skills, native like english communication skills, as role will be required to liaise with customers / partners and global leaders- experience in dealing with multiple erps, sap & oracle preferable.
experience in dealing with web-based tools such as tableau and comfortable with working on various reporting tools.- strong computer skills ms, proficient on excel is highly desirable, able to gather disperse data, create statistics analysis, provide sound rational recommendations, and present to external audiences.
*you must have*- lean six sigma and simplification process orientation on administrative processes.
category management, project management experience.
green belt or black belt certification is desirable.- strong and demonstrated sourcing, category management, project management background, driving productivity strategies for value engineering projects, experience providing support to a variety of projects addressing different negotiation strategies to achieve both strategic and operational objectives