What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Category Manager position at Trane?
At Trane Technologies, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what's possible for a sustainable world. Our team 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.
What's in it for you:
As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient environments, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies, sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. If you want to contribute to making a better future, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world.
Thrive at work and at home:
- Benefits kick in on day one for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – we dare to care.
- Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
- Paid time off, including in support of volunteer and parental leave needs.
- Educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.
Where is the work:
Due to the nature of this role, this position has been designated as a hybrid work schedule, with work performed onsite 3 days each week. Approved work locations include various offices across the United States.
What you will do:
Trane Technologies is hiring a Senior Category Manager directly managing the Electrical Components category focused on Electrification, Batteries, and Power Management. This is a critical role on our Procurement team, with a large, complex scope of responsibilities within the assigned category.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Manage components within the Electrical Components category.
- Identify, engage, and align with internal stakeholders to capture category requirements and ensure supplier qualification and quality.
- Partner with business unit Procurement teams to efficiently transition suppliers as needed.
- Support region/sector New Product Development (NPD) Procurement teams through preferred supplier programs.
- Develop and execute detailed category strategy, expanding the Preferred Supplier Program and segmentation based on the business needs and effective procurement principles.
- Assess opportunity for commodity, including spend segmentation, commodity maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis.
- Negotiations: Manage contract lifecycle and compliance, ensure supply continuity, and deliver best total value through RFx activities to execute supplier selection and negotiation.
- Risk Management: Actively monitor and mitigate supplier risk, including financial, capacity, quality, and compliance.
- Cost Management: Responsible for delivering category productivity through price, value analysis (VA), or continuous improvement projects.
- Supplier Management: Oversee Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and regular supplier reviews for all strategic suppliers within category to meet program Quality/Cost/Delivery targets.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree required. Masters or MBA preferred.
- 10 years of experience in Procurement/Supply Chain with large-scale, complex, and/or regional/global categories of spend plus 5 years of applicable experience in power electronics and batteries/management systems.
- Demonstrated success in assessing, negotiating, and managing vendors.
- Collaborative, facilitation, consultation, and conflict resolution skills; you will be a trusted business partner and engage both internal and external stakeholders/customers.
- Professional communication; both verbal and written are required.
- Ability to travel as needed.
- Experience or background in electrical design, application/sales engineering, or procurement of electrical systems is preferred.
Compensation:
Total compensation for this role will include a commission/incentive plan. Disclaimer: This base pay range is based on US national averages. Actual base pay could be a result of seniority, merit, geographic location where the work is performed.
