Purchasing Employee

At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go.
**Job Summary**：**

The Procurement Project Manager is responsible for multiple procurement projects, working with cross-functional teams and standard work to build and execute project implementation plans for productivity and continuous improvement projects. Partner with Procurement to assist with projects charter, benefits, and resource requirements. Responsible for monitoring active projects, updating status, eliminating roadblocks, and escalating issues as appropriate. Investigate, coordinate and communicate project changes. Identify gaps to goals and collaboratively develop and support countermeasures and activities to close the gap and exceed targets. Support Procurement goal achievement by leading and executing supplier rationalization, quality, and delivery improvement projects. Work to align strategies between Operations, Engineering and Procurement, as well as plant rationalization. Collaborating with Plant Operations and Procurement to ensure supply continuity.

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for Commercial HVAC procurement goals and metrics including productivity, supplier rationalization, risk management, supplier quality and supplier on time delivery, addressing any gaps in achieving targets.
- Responsible for monitoring active projects, updating status, eliminating roadblocks, and escalating issues as appropriate
- Identify gaps to goals and collaboratively develop and support countermeasures and activities to close the gap and exceed targets.
- Ensure alignment of Procurement strategies with operations, marketing and engineering platforms plans and requirements. Responsible for sharing Operations, Engineering and Marketing specific strategies with Procurement.
- Create supplier strategies for local suppliers - Build RFx activities in order to execute supplier selection and negotiation, manage supplier business review
- Evaluate Trane technologies business needs against supplier capabilities to select the preferred suppliers who meet quality, cost, and delivery requirements; leverage commercial knowledge to navigate and manage supplier relationships and contracts.
- Responsible for accurate forecasting and reporting of procurement financial metrics including productivity and inflation. Support the development of the Annual Operating Plan for productivity projects, targets, and initiatives.
- Active participant in cross functional productivity gate reviews ensuring that required cross-functional resources are allocated to execute projects as outlined. Partner with Procurement to assist with projects charter, benefits, and resource requirements.
- Participate in and represent Procurement function during plant or product Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE).

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree with minimum 5+ years of previous work experience in a diversified industrial company in the areas of procurement, engineering, project management, quality, finance and/or operations required.
- Strong understanding of the procurement processes at an operational and leadership level.
- Demonstrated success in assessing, negotiating and managing vendors.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Strong influencing and negotiating skills across organization. Possess strong interpersonal skills. Ability to lead, develop and motivate staff, foster team dynamic.
- Experience in International sourcing experience, running large complex cross functional projects a plus. Experience in supplier development, materials management, and/or supplier quality a plus. Experience in castings and machining field an advantage.
- Ability to travel up 20%

We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.