Associate Director, Supplier

Carrier is the leading global provider of healthy, safe and sustainable building and cold chain solutions with a world‑class, diverse workforce with business segments covering HVAC, refrigeration, and fire and security. We make modern life possible by delivering safer, smarter and more sustainable services that make a difference to people and our planet while revolutionizing industry trends. This is why we come to work every day.

Join us and we can make a difference together.

Lead professional and recognized thought leader in Supplier Performance, who drives supplier performance and business-wide metrics and leads on site assessments. Advises key suppliers on resolutions for significant issues that are likely to have a business-wide impact. Collaborates with executive management of key and critical supplies and leads coordination across sites and functional boundaries. Implements the resolution of company/department wide risks/obstacles with critical buyers to ensure manufacturing, supply chain, and delivery schedules are in alignment with customer needs.

• Leads onsite assessments with the most critical buyers, quality, and engineering teams to drive overall supplies improvement.
• Leads in the improvement of critical supplier performance to Supplier Gold standards by leveraging the Supplier Development Playbook and other supplier performance tools.
• Removes significant barriers to the implementation of CI for suppliers to improve on-time delivery and quality.
• Leads the evaluation of key supplier performance and applies sustainable counter measures and actions in order to facilitate improvement.
• May oversee production readiness assessments for New Product Introduction and rate increases, including capacity confirmation to ensure a timely ramp-up to production volumes with a business wide impact.
• Oversees the monitoring of critical business wide metrics and the coordination of cross-functional work teams to significantly increase effectiveness of supply chain initiatives.
• Collaborates with executive management of key suppliers to initiate appropriate major improvement programs to achieve and sustain high levels of performance.
• Leads the coordination with critical buyers across sites and functional boundaries to identify and resolve organization/department wide risks/obstacles in a pro‑active and expeditious manner to ensure manufacturing, supply chain and delivery schedules are in alignment with customer needs.

• BA/BS degree
• 6+ years of quality supplier development experience

• Master Degree preferred
• Degree in business management, procurement or supply chain management preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Cost reduction project leadership experience in a related environment preferred
• Technical acumen / understanding of commodity management and ability to quickly learn products and industry
• Ability to work effectively with cross-cultural suppliers on technical and logistics issues
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail, and superior follow-up and follow-through skills
• Team player and influencing skills required to establish and sustain a lean culture
• Strong negotiation skills

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