Category Manager, Logistics

**Job Details**

**Who we are**

Johnson Controls is the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings.

At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play.

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**What you will do**:
The Category Manager is responsible for Logistics spend for APAC region. Responsibilities include supplier scouting, selection, supplier management, price & contract negotiation and working capital management. The Category Manager will develop and execute a category strategy that supports the company’s profitable growth plans. She/He will be the primary owner of cost savings and working capital improvements.

**How you will do it**:

- Drive the team to deliver financial results for field, corporate and plants
- Engages Key influence network to build sponsorship for change
- Supports team's decisions in the face of uncertainty
- Creates strategies to achieve long term goals across business
- Coaches team for their development, improves team capability and skillset
- Build integrity culture
- Develop Logistics category strategy by category cluster, implement category strategy in sourcing decision of Logistics spend
- Optimizes and rationalize the supply base
- Supplier account management for selection of suppliers
- Manage supplier performance and organize regular business reviews with suppliers of responsibility.
- Negotiation and maintenance of contracts and supply conditions
- Insights to supply base market intelligence & dynamics, scouting new suppliers to support the business growth
- Build significant process muscle in VAVE, which will increase profitability
- Deploy a global preferred supplier strategy to improve supplier quality, delivery and cost
- Drive year-over-year improvement in Logistics spend through supplier negotiation
- Drive year-over-year improvement in working capital through supplier DPO management
- Monitor and support procurement productivity improvement projects complete on schedule
- Report monthly operation result by category cluster

**What we look for**:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Supply Chain Management, or related Business Degree. MBA is a
- distinct advantage
- 8-12 years sourcing/procurement experience, at least 5 years’ experience in Logistics management and 3 years’ experience in team management
- Excellent negotiation skills, being able to build a compelling case and convince others, familiar with
- contracting
- Experience in market investigation, purchasing strategy establishment and implementation, familiar with cost reduction methods and tools
- Good interpersonal skills to enable and manage strategic relationships
- Adaptable towards a rapidly changing environment
- Experience in working in multi-cultural teams
- Experience in working in multifunctional development teams
- Preferably experience in an innovative but also cost-driven environment
- Experience in international trade
- Honest and Integrity
- Willing to travel

**_Diversity & Inclusion _**
- Our dedication to diversity and inclusion starts with our values. We lead with integrity and purpose, focusing on the future and aligning with our customers’ vision for success. Our High-Performance Culture ensures that we have the best talent that is highly engaged and eager to innovate. _Our D&I mission elevates each employee _’ _s responsibility to contribute to our culture. It _’ _s through these contributions that we’ll drive the mindsets and behaviors we need to power our customers’ missions. You have the power. You have the voice. You have the culture in your hands. _

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