Senior Category Manager, Aluminum and Copper

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The Senior Category Manager will lead Carriers centralized $180M Copper and Aluminum categories spend. This role is a key part of the CSA Supply Chain organization reporting to the Associate Director for Copper & Aluminum Sourcing Leader.

This leader is responsible for providing sustained competitive advantage in product cost quality and production flexibility across Carriers NA footprint and will be responsible for working across the business units functions and all NA locations to develop and implement best-in-class sourcing strategies and procedures. This leader will play a key role in driving transformation within Carriers supply chain organization to provide the company significant savings increasing productivity managing inflation/deflation and driving excellence in category strategy

Job Responsibilities:

• Manages global category spend for approximately $180M.

• Responsible for building and executing category strategy for Copper and Aluminum material which optimizes affordability availability agility and innovation. Develop and maintain expert knowledge of respective global supply markets competitors and product innovations.

• Establishes a cross-functional network and fosters collaboration with suppliers wider supply chain organization engineering quality and product management

• Owns the vendor performance data and reports metrics to leadership

• Manages external relationships with suppliers and assumes responsibility for all internal activities and decisions associated with the assigned categories and suppliers including contract negotiations new products development approved vendor lists re-sourcing dual qualification pricing changes quality and capacity.

• Develop the commodity management team to drive global performance in collaboration with regional commodity teams and the Center of Excellence team.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree

• 7 years experience with strategic sourcing for a global industrial manufacturer

• 30% travel including some international trips

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or professional certifications (CPM CPSM CIRM CPIM)

• Excellent negotiation skills & strategic mindset

• Experience with strategic sourcing and lean tools

• Digital dexterity and strong analytical ability to leverage data

• Strong knowledge of supply chain strategy (development and execution) and category specific experience

• Driven problem solver with appetite toindependently address complex challenges in a fast-moving environment

• Proven track record of successful leadership negotiation and executive communication

• Strong business acumen and experience collaborating across various levels within a diverse global organization

Benefits:

Employees are eligible for benefits including:

• Health Care benefits: Medical Dental Vision; wellness incentives
• Retirement benefits
• Time Off and Leave: Paid vacation days up to15 days; paid sick days up to 5 days; paid personal leave up to 5 days; paid holidays up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave;parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty; military leave;purchasedvacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance

To learn more about our benefits offering please click here: Work With Us Carrier Corporate The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives subject to plan requirements.

Pay Range:

The annual salary for this position is $146750$ which may affect pay within this range include but are not limited to skills education experience and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date. Job Posting Date: 02/12/2026

Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status age or any other federally protected class.

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