Strategic Sourcing Specialist jobs in Rock Hill, SC

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Intelligrated is a ~$2.5B global business and part of the ~$8B Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) Strategic Business Group of Honeywell. Honeywell Intelligrated (IGS) designs, manufactures, integrates and installs complete material handling automation solutions, including conveyor, IntelliSort® sortation, Alvey® palletizers, Honeywell Robotics, automated storage and retrieval systems, and voice- and light-directed picking technologies — all managed by advanced machine controls and our best-in-class Momentum™ warehouse execution system. By drawing on an ever-expanding portfolio and deep industry expertise, we provide best-fit, scalable solutions to help businesses optimize and manage their entire fulfillment processes, from receiving to shipping — and everything in between.

The Connected Distribution Center from Honeywell Intelligrated is designed to help companies make the digital transformation from manual to automated processes and keep up with the rapidly escalating pace of modern commerce demands. Through the seamless integration of sensors, controls, automation and labor, we’re providing the real-time business intelligence to help our customers make informed business decisions, ensure worker safety, and maximize equipment uptime and lifecycles.

From concept and integration to industry-leading lifecycle support services, Honeywell Intelligrated is committed to our customers’ successes — delivering sustained distribution and fulfillment productivity and continual performance improvements through increased flexibility, efficiency and accuracy. We back every project with 24X7 multilingual technical support and access to lifecycle support services through a network of national, regional and local service centers.
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Establish and drive procurement of material and services in alignment with business Leadership for your assigned commodity / category and/or region as per Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan. You will have site responsibility for driving competitive commodity and category supply strategies to achieve lowest Total Cost for your site, reduced Working capital via Negotiation planning and execution, High Growth Region Sourcing, Value Engineering and Sole/ Single Source elimination. You will manage Supplier Performance to support your commodity/category and/or region and ensure supply continuity. You will be managing several projects in dynamic environment. You will ensure compliance with company business policies and procedures, Export /Import regulations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

•  Manage and drive procurement of material and services of assigned commodities. Specific to this Requisition HRD167485 the assigned commodity is Software.
• Drive and execute Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Strategic Plan with supporting strategies
• Develop Commodity Strategy to support short, mid to long term Honeywell AOP
• Align with Sales, Marketing, Technology, Business, Operations, Finance and Quality and Other Honeywell Businesses on strategies to support AOP
• Right and fast execution of strategies to align with business growth and new product introductions plan
• Manage Commodity Strategies including Spend Analysis, Benchmarking, Cost and Market Analysis and Global Technology / Economic trends
• Manage Supplier selection, RFQ and RFI process, Negotiation, Contracting and Supplier Performance (OTTR and PPM) processes
• Research software suppliers to find optimal cost-effective solutions to support SPS global business enterprises.
• Working with Engineering, Offering Management and Legal to negotiate and execute strategic supply/service agreements (SSA), statement of work (SOW) and non-disclosure agreement (NDA) with global software and professional service suppliers in support of new product introduction (NPI) and engineering proof of concepts (POC).
• Lifecycle management of all assigned software contracts in global contract lifecycle management (CLM) system.
• Lead contract negotiation from initiation to implementation to meet Honeywell requirements
• Reduce single and sole source suppliers to reduce supply chain risk
• Ensure relationship development and management of key suppliers
• Lead negotiation with suppliers for annual cost reduction and identify/drive cost reduction projects to meet Annual Operating Plan (AOP)
• Improve Working Capital thru Payment Terms extensions, Payment cycle optimization, Vendor Managed Inventories Inventory and Lead time reductions
• Understand and lead supplier selection/transitions and identify/develop/grow preferred supply base to support Commodity Strategy
• Assist in Site Tactical Procurement escalations, reconciliations and reporting as required