Sr Director, Strategic Sourcing – Installation Category Management
Atlanta, GA - USA
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Job Summary
Honeywell is seeking a Senior Director of Strategic Sourcing to lead the Installation Center of Excellence as part of the Projects Center of Excellence. This is a transformation role not business as usual with a mandate to modernize how Honeywell sources contracts and partners with installation and subcontracting suppliers globally.
The role owns the enterprise subcontracting strategy across Honeywell businesses representing approximately $500M in annual external spend and is accountable for driving cost speed and competitiveness through standardized processes fitforpurpose contracting shouldcosting value engineering and AIenabled automation.
This position requires a leader who can define strategy and execute it alongside the team with a hands-on leadership style and the ability to personally engage in analysis executive materials and critical discussions. The role operates in a highly matrixed environment and relies on influence credibility and delivery to achieve results.
Responsibilities
Enterprise Strategy and Transformation
- Lead Honeywells global installation and subcontracting sourcing strategy across businesses
- Drive transformation from fragmented manual practices to standardized scalable operating models
- Act as senior change leader to ensure enterprise adoption and value realization
Financial and Performance Ownership
- Own pre and postaward savings delivery in partnership with business teams
- Drive RFQ cycletime reduction bid quality improvement margin expansion and winrate enablement
- Establish and track performance metrics across savings speed and preferred supplier utilization
Process Commercial and Risk Excellence
- Deploy standardized value engineering and postmortem processes for major projects
- Partner with Legal to implement fitforpurpose subcontracting and risk frameworks
- Support and lead escalation of complex highimpact subcontracting negotiations
Tools Digital and AI Enablement
- Lead deployment of shouldcosting RFQ tools and AIenabled process automation
- Serve as key stakeholder and decision preparer for sourcing technology investments
- Ensure tools materially simplify daytoday execution and drive measurable outcomes
Leadership and Stakeholder Engagement
- Lead a global matrixed team of regional Installation COE leaders
- Influence senior business project and functional stakeholders without direct authority
- Represent Honeywell with strategic subcontractor partners globally
What Success Looks Like (1824 Months)
- Shouldcosting value engineering and AI automation are fully deployed and embedded in daily project execution
- Subcontracting processes are faster simpler and consistently adopted across regions and businesses
- Preferred subcontractor frameworks are active scaled globally and used by the businesses
- Sustainable savings are delivered above AOP while improving execution quality and subcontractor engagement
- Sourcing is viewed as an enabling partner that improves speed competitiveness and outcomes
Qualifications
Must Have
- Significant experience in Strategic Sourcing
- Proven track record leading largescale transformations in complex matrixed organizations
- Strong problem-solving capabilities and comfort operating in ambiguity
- Handson leadership style with the ability to personally drive analysis and executive materials
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders across multiple functions and regions
Strongly Preferred
- Bachelors degree in engineering or supply chain management
- MBA in Supply Chain Management
- Experience with projects EPC installation or subcontracting sourcing
- Exposure to construction or trade subcontracting environments
- Experience with shouldcost modeling and contract management
- Familiarity with digital sourcing tools and AIenabled process automation
- Global experience working across diverse regional markets
Additional Information
- Expected travel less than 25 percent
- Location is flexible between Atlanta Houston and Charlotte
- Role requires both strategic leadership and hands-on execution
Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the worlds most critical challenges around energy safety security air travel productivity and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state of the art technology solutions to improve efficiency productivity sustainability and safety in high growth businesses in broad-based attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer more comfortable and more productive world enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe. Learn more about Honeywell: click here
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