Manager, Strategic Sourcing

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HVAC Segment SPX Technologies’ HVAC Segment delivers mission-critical heating, cooling, and engineered air movement solutions for the world’s most demanding environments — including healthcare, life sciences, data centers, high demand industrial and commercial operations, and essential infrastructure. We operate a market-leading portfolio of trusted brands that set the standard for how HVAC systems are designed, selected, and evolved — delivering purpose-built, sustainable solutions for engineers, owners, and contractors across critical environments worldwide.

Our technologies support environments where performance, reliability, and precision are essential enabling safe, efficient, and resilient operations when it matters most.

How you will make an Impact (Job Summary)

Lead and develop the sourcing strategy for transportation and logistics services, including Truckload, LTL, Parcel, International Freight, and TMS solutions. This position will be responsible for delivering year-over-year improvements in freight cost, service, visibility, and operational performance while ensuring a reliable and resilient logistics network capable of supporting current and future business requirements

What you can expect in this role (Job Responsibilities)

While each day brings new opportunities at SPX, your core responsibilities will be:

• Develop and execute category strategies for transportation and logistics services, including Truckload (TL), Less-Than-Truckload (LTL), Parcel, Air Freight, Ocean Freight, Customs Brokerage, Warehousing, and International Logistics.
• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives, RFx events, contract negotiations, and carrier selection processes to optimize cost, service, capacity, and risk.
• Manage relationships with transportation providers, 3PLs, freight forwarders, parcel carriers, customs brokers, and logistics technology providers.
• Analyze transportation spend, network requirements, freight market trends, and carrier performance to drive year-over-year productivity improvements.
• Establish and govern carrier agreements, service-level requirements, rate structures, accessorial controls, and performance scorecards.
• Partner with operations, distribution, customer service, planning, and finance teams to align transportation strategies with business objectives and customer requirements.
• Lead freight optimization initiatives focused on mode selection, route consolidation, load planning, shipment visibility, and network design.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies to address capacity constraints, geopolitical disruptions, regulatory changes, and transportation market volatility.
• Monitor and improve key performance metrics including freight cost, on-time delivery, claims, carrier performance, lead times, and customer service levels.
• Support business growth initiatives, acquisitions, facility consolidations, and supply chain transformation projects requiring transportation and logistics expertise.
• Drive continuous improvement opportunities through data analytics, benchmarking, automation, and logistics process standardization.
• Ensure compliance with domestic and international transportation regulations, trade requirements, and company policies.

What we are looking for (Experience, Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, Education)

We each bring something to the table, and we are looking for someone who has:

Required Experience

• 5 to 8 years’ relevant work experience in global manufacturing companies with increasing responsibilities in a multi-site, multi-product, company.
• International experience strongly preferred.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Solid negotiation skills. Competent at planning and leading negotiation.…