This role will support to establish and drive procurement of materials, Softwares and services in alignment with business Leadership for assigned area of responsibility / commodity / category and/or region as per Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan. You will have global/regional Responsibility for driving competitive supply strategies to achieve lowest Total Cost ownership, reduced Working capital via Negotiation planning and execution, High Growth Region Sourcing, Value Engineering and Sole/ Single Source elimination. You will manage Supplier Performance to support your commodity/category and/or region and ensure supply continuity. You will be managing several projects in a energetic global environment. You will ensure compliance with company business policies and procedures, Export /Import regulations. + Drive and execute Annual and Strategic Operating Plan with supporting strategies. + **Category Management for Business Software products & solutions,. Understand, formulate and manage Master Service Agreements Reseller Agreements, EULA, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and different Capex & Opex costs for Software Procurement.** + **Category Management for Computing Hardware like Storage, Services, Antivirus, IT Hardware.** + Right and Fast execution of strategies to align with business Growth. + Manage Project, Category and Commodity sourcing Strategies including spend analysis, Benchmarking, Cost, Market Analysis and Global Technology / Economic trends. + Ensure Relationship development and management with key Suppliers. + Align with Sales, Marketing, Technology, Business, Operations, Finance and Quality and Other Honeywell Businesses. + Manage Supplier selection, RFQ and RFI process, Negotiation, Contracting and supplier performance processes + Support **Presales pursuits aggressively for 3rd party buyouts** products / services to achieve competitiveness and increase win rate.



+ Work with **Proposals & Estimation** manager and optimize the cost of products & services, evaluating vendor's offers techno-commercially, align **terms & conditions on back-to-back** basis before recommending e-gap approval to Sourcing Leadership. + **Deliver metrics** meeting/exceeding Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and Strategy Deployment targets. + Drive **Functional excellence** and Key metric include- early engagement, win rate, productivity, working capital, eAuction, Digitization & on-time delivery. + Apply effective Sourcing supplier risk assessment methodologies to ensure supplier continuity. + Improve Working Capital through Payment Terms extensions, Payment cycle optimization, Vendor Managed Inventories Inventory and Lead time reductions + Achieve material spend of bought outs & it's associated services as per **project schedule and revenue plan.** + **Engage with project** **management** when projects are awarded to develop procurement plan and delivering metrics and expectations. + **Drive Process compliance and Excellence** , initiate & support HOS (Honeywell Operating Systems) / improvement programs. + Create, maintain & **benchmark pre-sales buyout / procurement database** across verticals from quotes and/ or projects executed. + **Collaborate with global category management / CoE Teams** to identify and develop suppliers, establish contracts, cost models and price agreements. Develop alternate suppliers and solutions. + Support timely submission of data/ reports monthly metric reporting.



+ **Drive and Ensure compliance** with PA and Global **Sourcing procedures and policies** ; leverage global tools. + Bachelor's degree in engineering + Post graduation / MBA / CIPS / CPSM would be added advantage. + 12-14 years of experience in Strategic Sourcing, Supply Chain and Procurement Experience in Process &/or Building Automation, Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) or Large Oil & Gas industries highly preferred. + **Experience in Sourcing of Software, IT Business Solutions, Computing Hardware (Servers, Storage, Networking) is essential.** + Strong Negotiations & Interdepartmental stakeholder management skills. + Exposure to dealing with multi-regional based cross functional teams. + Data analysis, Interpretation & Presentation skill. + Execution - persistent drive for results, utilizing sound project management, organizational and problem-solving skills and Strategic thinker. + Travel up to 20-40% Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world's most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector's transition from automation to autonomy. Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.

📌 Sr Strategic Sourcing Spec (Pune)
🏢 Honeywell
📍 Pune