Sr. Category Manager

About Carrier

Carrier, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions, is committed to creating innovations that bring comfort, safety and sustainability to life. Through cutting-edge advancements in climate solutions such as temperature control, air quality and transportation, we improve lives, empower critical industries and ensure the safe transport of food, life-saving medicines and more. Since inventing modern air conditioning in 1902, we lead with purpose: enhancing the lives we live and the world we share. We continue to lead because of our world-class, inclusive workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. For more information, visit corporate.carrier.com or follow Carrier on social media at @Carrier.

About This Role

The Sr. Category Manager will provide daily leadership to the commodity team to ensure the development and execution of category strategies that exceed both short- and long-term targets. In this role, you own all commercial negotiations and supplier selections, while managing strategic partnerships and monitoring risk through a formal SRM process. Additionally, you will partner closely with Project and NPD teams to ensure procurement effectively supports all new product development initiatives.

Job Description

• Provide daily/weekly management and support to category/commodity team members while continually developing and expanding individual and team capabilities utilizing the established Managing for Daily/Continuous Improvement (MD/CI) process
• Align with regional and sector functional stakeholders to incorporate product and manufacturing strategies into category/commodity strategy while gaining leadership support.
• Lead category/commodity team members to develop and execute comprehensive.
• Opportunity Assessment for commodity including spend segmentation, commodity maturity, cost drivers, and supply market analysis.
• Develop Sourcing Strategy for commodity detailing projects, sourcing levers, timing, resources, and expected benefits.
• Accountable for execution of sourcing projects including RFx, continuous improvement, consolidation, etc.
• Responsible for defining negotiations strategy including supplier profiles, commercial negotiations targets, defining switching costs, and building Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Developing and executing commodity blocking strategy
• Accountable for all commercial negotiations and supplier selections within commodities - exceed spend under long-term agreement and supplier rationalization targets. Accountable for contract lifecycle management and compliance
• Partner with Regional and Sector Procurement teams to ensure delivery of productivity - lead team countermeasures aligned to commodities and regions/sector
• Responsible for management of strategic suppliers through formal Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) process to improve supplier performance metrics including quality, delivery, productivity, and innovation.
• Engage with NPD Procurement teams to support new product development (NPD) and new technology introduction (NTI), through preferred supplier and SRM programs
• Accountable for monitoring supplier risk across all responsible commodities while developing and maintaining detailed mitigation plans for critical components and at-risk suppliers
• Accountable for team reporting and managing of category/commodity inflation, both mitigation and recovery
• Accountable for cashflow & spend under contract to meet annual targets.
• Accountable for delivering commodity productivity through price, value analysis (VA) or continuous improvement projects - responsible for supporting regional/sector countermeasures.
• Aggregate category/commodity playbooks across team members and present comprehensive team update during Quarterly Category/commodity Reviews (QCR)
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• 7 years experience Supply Chain or Procurement
• 5 years experience in Category/commodity Management
• Ability to travel up to 25%
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree
• Strong Analytic experience
• Strong negotiation skills
• Experience with large complex cross functional projects
• Direct experience in the development and management of a global supply base
  
  

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

• Health Care benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; wellness incentives
• Retirement benefits
• Time Off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty; military leave; purchased vacation
• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment
• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Healthcare Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account
• Tuition Assistance
  
  

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here: Work With Us | Carrier Corporate The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

This position is entitled to short-term cash incentives, subject to plan requirements.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is $146,750–$205,250. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Applications will be accepted for at least 3 days from Job Posting Date. Job Posting Date: 02/26/2026

Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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