Category Manager - Electronics

Category Manager – Electronics

Requisition Number:  115550

Location:  Lincolnshire, IL

If you are an individual who enjoys a challenge in a multifaceted, innovative product design environment, we would like to speak with you! 

Honeywell Life Safety is a strategic business unit in Automation and Control Solutions (ACS).  Honeywell Life Safety is a global leader in commercial fire systems, smoke and gas detection, personal protective equipment, and home healthcare monitoring products.  Our quality products, integrated system solutions, and services make life safer, more comfortable, more secure, and more productive in every corner of our world.

We are looking for a Category Manager to join a dynamic team of individuals who are creating Gas Detection Sensor Technology in Lincolnshire, Illinois.  This is a growing industry and we would like you to be a part of it.

If you have been handing multiple projects, indirect procurement, manufacturing contract negotiations, electrical components, printed circuit boards, plastics, and sheet metal.  We would like to speak with you!

As a Category Manager you will:

• Work on high level manufacturing contract negotiations


• Plan, organize, and control strategic activities surrounding the acquisition of materials and services that embodies major piece part and/or device commodities


• Lead cost negotiations for low volume high mix parts


• Implement Supply Chain Management strategies to achieve lowest total costs, effective asset management, continuous quality improvement, delivery, and cycle time performance improvement and early supplier involvement in product development.


• Partner closely with New Product Engineering, Product management, and Operations to develop product strategies for this business.


• Work closely with the Security Global Commodity Management Teams and Product Management to identify viable and world class suppliers that can deliver customized supply solutions.


• Develop supply partners for HLS, process definition, deployment, results and improvement, strategy development and implementation, commercial terms and conditions, and delivery of deflation savings to the operating plan.


• Analyze current spend, processes and practices, develop an overall sourcing strategy that supports the goals of the HLS business including new product introduction, supplier consolidation, process standardization, material cost reduction, transaction cost removal, and process digitization that meets the annual operating plan.


• Design and deploy processes that are consistent with the ACS identified strategies.


• Ensure appropriate sourcing measures and metrics are in place and deployed that measure progress against initiatives and develop necessary corrective action plans


• Create Power Point presentations


• Effectively consolidate indirect suppliers with identified strategic partners.


• Select and manage required suppliers who have the capacity and capability to meet the material and subcontract needs of the business.


• Manage business acquisitions to facilitate synergy savings and common process implementation.


• Development and implementation of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) covering selected commodities


• Establishes and manages key supplier performance goals and objectives; communicates periodic results to plan and manages top-level continuous improvement. Develops keen awareness of industry performance benchmarks.


• Promotes and monitors early supplier involvement in key product developments, using the supplier’s expertise to optimize quality, delivery and manufacturability


• Create Excel spreadsheets using pivot tables


• Participate in New Product Introduction


• Manage multiple projects


• Understand the total supply chain


• Act as a change agent


• Communicate with cross functional teams of engineers


• Manage an annual spend of 6-8 million dollars

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or BA degree in Business, Engineering or Liberal Arts


• 5 years experience with manufacturing contract negotiation (1 million dollars plus)


• 5 years experience leading cost negotiations


• 5 years experience pricing negotiations, benchmarking, supplier selection and negotiation planning


• 5 years experience handling multiple commodities

Additionally Desired:

• Experience with US based suppliers


• Strong Excel Pivot Table experience


• 5 years experience data analysis


• Conduct cost negotiations for low volume high mix parts


• Experience with the total supply chain and not just procurement


• 5 years experience indirect procurement


• Commodity experience preferred - injection molding, stampings, electronics (semi conductors, passives), electro-mechanical (PCB’s, terminal blocks, connectors).


• Leadership - strong managerial skills to work across all functions and levels of an organization; ability to lead change; effectively establishes high performing teams and role models high performance standards


• Six Sigma Green Belt a plus


• Project management, engineering or quality experience a plus


• Strong communication and interpersonal - crisp verbal skills, effective listening skills; effective facilitation skills; demonstrates high energy and models behaviors to motivate the team


• Strong negotiation skills; excellent knowledge of operations management and supply chain processes in a large organization; and knowledge of effective technology driven sourcing processes.


• Ability to make sound business judgments related to strategic supply philosophies and initiatives


• Persistent drive for results utilizing sound project management, organizational and problem solving skills.

We are building a world that’s safer and more secure . . . More comfortable and energy efficient . . . More innovative and productive. We are Honeywell.