Job Title: Senior Specialist, Category Management - Facilities & Operations

Job Code: 18674

Location: Melbourne, FL or Remote Opportunity with 5-10% travel

Job Description:

L3Harris’ Corporate Headquarters located in Melbourne, FL is seeking a Senior Specialist, Category Management to join our Corporate Indirect Category Management Team. This highly visible, fast-paced, multi-dimensional role provides strategic and day-to-day support in our Facilities & Operations spend.  Key responsibilities include working with functional stakeholders to support category management, strategic sourcing, and supplier relationship management. This includes creating and executing category and sourcing strategies aimed at cost reduction, supply simplification, demand management, and ensuring product availability. Strong business acumen, awareness of negotiation tactics, and knowledge of global economics and market data are required to forecast trends, reduce costs, and drive continuous improvement. Additionally, this position demands excellent interpersonal and leadership skills to influence change across functions.

This role will report to the Senior Manager, Category Management as part of the Corporate Indirect Category Management Team and our strategic supply chain organization focused on leveraging the company’s scale and deploying best practices that achieve best possible quality, technology, cost and delivery for internal customers.          

Essential Functions:

• Build, manage, and ensure execution of the category strategy for Enterprise to achieve category goals, achieve business strategies and deliver sustainable category value
• Coordinate on a continuous basis with internal customers to understand evolving business objectives, expectations and specific requirements 
• Leverage performance targets for Enterprise-wide and category specific strategic goals to monitor performance
• Generate market insights through research and data, industry developments, supply/demand dynamics, emerging technologies, leading-edge practices
• Maintain knowledge of, and experience in, requirements for services and supplier capabilities in Facilities & Operations
• Support regular communications with supply chain leadership and functional teams on category status, challenges, and opportunities
• Maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to define requirements, identify critical service providers and influence demand
• Leverage all procurement levers, including supplier rationalization, negotiations, make vs. buy analyses, vendor managed inventories, inventory reduction programs, and should-costing
• Drive significant cost savings and cost avoidance by proactively identifying new opportunities, such as enterprise discount programs, long-term contracts, and commit to consume models
• Develop multi-year sourcing strategies and advise Sourcing Specialist and Procurement
• Leverage negotiation strategies and lead negotiations with strategic and preferred suppliers to maximize benefits across L3Harris and its affiliates
• Develop contractual documentation (Master Service Agreements, Software as a Service, Enterprise Agreements, Statements of Work, etc.) in accordance with established policies and procedures while minimizing contractual risk
• Support SRM process for portfolio of strategic suppliers and resolve complex problems relating to supplier quality and service, contract disputes, and other discrepancies
• Assess internal benchmarks, supplier ratings, and enterprise rate cards (NTE values) for all major lines of category spend
• Organize quarterly business reviews with key suppliers and coordinate with Segments to drive supplier accountability
• Assess supplier risks, develop the appropriate contingency plans, and drive inclusion into overall decision-making process
• Leverage advanced procurement analytics and tools (e.g., cost modeling, price regression analysis, scenario planning, eAuctions, etc.) and drive systems and analytics best practices across the organization

Qualifications: 

• 2+ years of experience of Procurement or and Strategic Sourcing
• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 6 years of prior relevant experience
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 4 years of prior related experience
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 10 years of prior related experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Experience in Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry preferred with specific FAR/DFAR experience Demonstrated category management or sourcing experience in Facilities & Operations
• Institute of Supply Management (ISM) certification (CPSM, CPM) or equivalent
• ASCM CLTD certification preferred
• Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
• Experience utilizing eSourcing tools
• Strong interpersonal and planning skills to lead change through influencing abilities
• Ability to own collaboration across Segments and gain executive buy-in
• Coordinate across commodities and segments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to present and discuss strategy and analysis

In compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for this role inColorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Vermont, Washington State and New York State is $70,000-$130,000. For California, Seattle, Washington D.C., Maryland Greater Washington D.C. area and New York City, the salary range for this role is $80,500-$149,500. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. L3Harris also offers a variety of benefits, including health and disability insurance, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and company-paid holidays. The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.