The NAM Procurement Strategy Manager will report to the NAM VP of Procurement and will help drive strategy and organization improvement projects. This role provides broad exposure across regional Supply Chain domains (e.g., quality, sustainability, risk management, process excellence) and procurement categories (e.g., electronics, fabricated parts, raw materials, etc.) as well as the platform to work with executives and other levels.

What will you do in this position?

• Drive key procurement strategy topics and coordination of such strategy execution across the region and the NAM Procurement organization.
• Be an instrumental part of procurement organizational improvement projects, in alignment with broader supply chain and corporate strategy.
• Manage independent work-streams to formulate data-driven insights/recommendations.
• Understand the problem and context.
• Conduct data gathering and analysis across applicable Procurement and Supply Chain teams.
• Synthesize and align with stakeholders.
• Develop and validate proposed path forward; coordinate Procurement organization to implement.
• Help prepare executive level presentations (e.g., Excom Reviews, Executive Business Reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews)
• Support ad hoc assignments to drive strategic topics and coordinate project launch of such topics.

What skills and capabilities will make you successful?

• Bachelor's in Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Business Management is required. Master's degree is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience of driving Procurement strategy-related topics problem definition, analytics, stakeholder alignment on solution exploration, and coordination of global execution, preferably in combination of both top tier management consulting firms and industry settings
• Direct or indirect category management, Procurement operations process execution working knowledge required.
• Experience working in a complex global matrix organization.
• Ability to connect qualitative and quantitative data points to distill the big picture
• Strong communication and influence skills
• Proficient in MS Power-Point, Excel, etc.

We know skills and competencies show up in many ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.

What's in it for me?

Schneider Electric offers a robust benefits package to support our employees such as flexible work arrangements, paid family leave, 401(k)+ match, and more.

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