Emeia Indirect Sourcing Manager

Location: VIGNATE, IT, 20060- Req ID: 4593The EMEIA Indirect Sourcing Manager will provide strategic thought leadership, influence, and hands on engagement across Europe to lead the procurement / supply management of indirect materials. While this position is posted for locations in Germany or Italy, there is also the opportunity for this role to be remotely based as well.

**What You Will Do**
- Accountability for Indirect Material & Service Spend ($150M+) across EMEIA with a heavy focus in Operations Spend including MRO
- Develop category playbooks, define action plans, and drive a cadence of execution to deliver value-add savings for addressable spend
- Maintain strategic business relationship with key supplier partners aimed at being the customer of choice, opening multi-year productivity project pipelines and aligning supplier partner investments and resources to support the Ingersoll Rand business strategy
- Oversees development of sourcing strategies to identify suppliers that meet the organization's quality, cost, or service requirements
- Negotiates contracts and agreements and ensures compliance with internal or external regulatory requirements and social responsibility initiatives
- Identifies trends in organizational purchasing and identifies opportunities for cost reduction through purchase consolidation and other sourcing methodologies (RFPs, RFIs, RFQs and Reverse Auctions)
- Engage with internal business partners to understand their business objectives and challenges, build mutual understanding of current spend and key supplier relationships
- Acts as a liaison between internal stakeholders and external suppliers, maintaining relationships and ensuring satisfaction in supplier performance
- Identify and implement procurement processes and technology to advance efficiencies across the team. This will include assisting with eProcurement and eSourcing related activities as well as assist with Supplier Diversity and Sustainability programs
- Actively monitor and mitigate supplier risks, inclusive of financial, capacity, quality, and compliance

**What You Will Need To Succeed**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply-Chain, or related field
- 3-5 years of demonstrated leadership capabilities
- Demonstrated competence in developing supplier relationships, negotiating skills, contract management and defining sourcing strategies within indirect categories
- Excellent industry, business and financial acumen especially as related to supply chain and sourcing
- Skilled in influencing in a collaborative environment, negotiation, and problem resolution
- Effective communication skills to translate strategy to action for broad employee groups across Europe and Globally
- Proven experience leading and coaching to improve individual and team performance
- Uncompromised integrity, business ethics and a drive to do what is right & best for the business
- Travel required (10-25%)

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Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency.