Indirect Procurement Category Leader

Position Overview

The Indirect Category Manager will provide strategic and tactical leadership across a broad range of indirect spend categories. This role requires expertise in category management sourcing strategies supplier relationships and supply chain optimization ensuring the achievement of both costefficiency and service excellence across Ralliant and the Operating Companies. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise across several indirect categories excellent stakeholder engagement skills and a strong background in driving cost savings supplier performance and value creation through strategic sourcing and category management.

Technical and Functional Responsibilities

• Develops organizes and implements sourcing strategies that drive cost savings supplier performance and innovation while maintaining high levels of quality and service.
• RFQ selection and qualification of suppliers including negotiation of contracts NDAs MOUs while owning supplier relationship development.
• Ongoing performance management of suppliers to achieve operational and procurement metrics such as: savings delivery quality leadtime payment terms and innovation.
• Work closely with senior leadership of Ralliant and the Operating Companies to align procurement goals with broader business strategies and objectives.
• Lead a crossfunctional team that defines current and future needs of the businesses while leveraging the strength of approved suppliers and potential technology leaders in our markets.
• Balance global requirements of Ralliant with our supply base while expanding our supply chain to reduce risk.
• Manage vendor compliance contract renewals and performance reviews that deliver Ralliant business objectives
• Able to use lean tools to drive business results with a continuous improvement workshops and kaizens within an operations environment.
• Implement procurement best practices policies and tools across the organization.
• Lead and support procurement transformation initiatives including digitalization and process improvements.
• Identify and mitigate internal and external risks to the category including development of business continuity plans with highrisk suppliers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Business Supply Chain or equivalent work experience; MBA preferred but not mandatory.
• Minimum 5 years experience in procurement with demonstrated success in contract negotiation and administration quality assurance and vendor management.
• Capable of making tradeoffs between technical requirements quality commercial terms risk management logistics regional sourcing plans and price when making strategic supplier selection decisions.
• Analytical problemsolving skills and project management experience required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; demonstrated business acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a crossfunctional matrixed team with people in remote locations.
• Microsoft Office applications skills required.
• Ability to travel as necessary.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred experience in the following categories: MRO Capital Equipment HR Services including recruitment contingent labor and payroll services marketing services software hardware telecom services fleet management and legal services
• International multiplesite experience is preferred.
• Previous involvement in procurement transformation initiatives

Ralliant Overview

Every day engineers transform scientific potential into realworld impact reshaping how we live and work. At this pivotal moment in technology Fortive is creating a focused standalone company poised to capitalize on powerful longterm trends with mission critical technologies advancing an electrified and digital future. Our team of scientists engineers and technologists is joining forces to pioneer solutions that will shape the future of industry.

Introducing Ralliant Corporation a global technology company uniting trusted brands solving tough challenges to speed breakthroughs at leading companies research institutions and governments across the semiconductor/communications/diversified electronics industrial manufacturing utilities and aero defense and space industries.

Ralliant is fueled by a global team of changemakers committed to continuous improvement and a strong culture rooted in disciplined execution. For more information please visit: