Manager Procurement Excellence

Description

The Manager of Procurement Excellence will support the implementation of the Copeland Business System best practices across the enterprise with a strong focus on procurement and supply chain through lean capabilities. They will be responsible for collaborating cross-functionally and with the procurement operations materials and supply chain leaders to ensure successful implementation while being a driver of culture change. The right candidate will have experience in lean management as well as experience in the procurement function ideally within a manufacturing organization.

As the Manager of Procurement Excellence you will:

• Lead the Process Excellence function within the larger Procurement Excellence team

• Apply Copeland Business System tools and methodologies to achieve continuous improvement

• Facilitate impactful global improvements specifically focused on the procurement function in alignment with strategic objectives and expectations

• Manage the Process Excellence team while mentoring training and guiding the group to achieve business goals

• Collaborate with the Oracle IT teams to enhance the Oracle platform to align with global policies

• Connect with the analytics organization to develop standardized metrics and dashboards

• Document newly rolled out processes as per global policies and train key business users

• Become the SME on Oracle procurement and planning processes for the center-led procurement organization; build trust with the BU procurement and materials teams

• Analyze business metrics trends and processes to develop improvement strategies

• Design new analytics and KPIs focused on process improvement and system parameter accuracy; train users to adopt new dashboards and reports

• Utilize a team-oriented structured problem-solving approach to analyze current conditions diagnose problems and identify improvement opportunities; demonstrate success with data

• Uncover and investigate complicated problems using data and various systems; make recommendations to cross-functional teams to resolve any issues

Required education experiences & skills:

• Bachelors degree in business supply chain finance engineering or IT field

• Minimum 7-10 years of related work experience in a continuous improvement procurement materials management or IT functional analysis role

• Experience in a manufacturing environment

• Prior work focused on driving system and process change

• Intermediate to advanced experience with Oracle EBS or Oracle Cloud but will consider other ERP experience

• Experience with lean transformation and rollout across multiple businesses with a global platform

• Proven knowledge with developing business analytics preferably with tools such as Power BI Tableau Sigma or Domo; SQL or other programming experience is desirable

• Prior experience leading projects and tracking goals and milestones

• Experience building presentations and presenting to functional business leaders

• Ability to engage with all levels of the organization including training of peers as well as executives

• Approachable leader always willing to train and mentor direct reports as well as others

• Ability to travel 10-25% (mostly domestic travel)

Preferred education experiences & skills

• Masters degree in business supply chain finance or engineering preferred

• Prior ERP implementation experience highly desirable
  
  Why Work in the Greater Miami Valley Area Our facility is located in Sidney OH conveniently located within driving distance to several larger cities such as Dayton Troy and Columbus. The areas generally low costs of living excellent school systems and low crime rates create a family-friendly environment. The area is home to several growing communities with restaurants festivals shopping and arts scenes that make them exciting places to live and work.

About our Location

The newly renovated Sidney campus has 1M square feet of manufacturing floor with an additional 120k square feet of leading-edge lab facilities. This location is the headquarters for the air conditioning and cold chain businesses. Through our 30 years of scroll compressor expertise our air conditioning related products help bring comfort and convenience in commercial industrial and residential spaces. The cold chain business helps ensure that food safely and efficiently travels from farm to fork. Approximately 1600 employees work in Sidney who all support a multitude of business functions. With the blend of businesses and functions represented under this one roof there are many opportunities for advancement within the Sidney location

Collaboration First Hybrid Work Arrangements:

This role is hybrid eligible with the requirement to be in office at least three days per week. Colleagues are expected to demonstrate a collaboration first mindset which is the understanding that teams will work together in-person and colleagues should be flexible to adjust their hybrid days based on business needs. You will have an opportunity to work with your team and leader to determine when you should be in office to drive meaningful connections and to best serve our customers.

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