Category Manager

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Category Manager, CSS North America Sourcing

Mocksville, NC

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At Ingersoll Rand, this role sits at the intersection of innovation and execution—where precision engineering meets high-speed delivery. It’s where ideas turn into impact, and operations become a true competitive edge. Reporting to the Director, Sourcing, the Category Manager will manage global and/or regional commodities for Compression Systems and Services, North America. This includes working with internal stakeholders to understand requirements, developing and executing commodity strategies to deliver material productivity, managing supplier relationships, overseeing supplier development, and working with our New Product Development(NPD) teams to utilize preferred suppliers and ensure best cost and quality.

• Manage global and/or regional commodities
• Identify and engage with internal stakeholders (engineering, regional procurement teams, product management, operations, quality) to capture commodity requirements and ensure supplier qualification and quality - partner with regional teams to efficiently transition suppliers as needed
• Responsible for developing & executing detailed commodity strategy:
  • Assess Opportunity for commodity including spend segmentation, commodity maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis
  • Develop Sourcing Strategy for commodity detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits
  • Accountable for execution of sourcing projects including continuous improvement, consolidation, etc.
  • Responsible for defining negotiation strategy including supplier profiles, commercial negotiations targets, defining switching costs, and building Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) models.
• Conduct or support negotiations and supplier selection - accountable for contract lifecycle management and compliance
• Responsible for delivering commodity productivity through price negotiations, supporting value analysis/ value engineering projects (VA/VE or i2V) and other continuous improvement projects.
• Support supplier segmentation, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and quarterly supplier reviews for all strategic suppliers within commodity.
• Support commodity continuity of supply - engage with plants to help teams resolve escalations.
• Support region/sector NPD Procurement teams through preferred supplier programs and RFQ's.
• Responsible for forecasting, reporting, mitigating, and recovery of…