Sr. Manager, Global Procurement (Hard Home)
Core
Lead global cost strategy and savings initiatives for hard-home categories, balancing product quality, competitive pricing, supply continuity, and sustainability.
Role type
Senior Manager, Global Procurement
Builds
Global sourcing strategies, vendor distribution plans, and scalable procurement processes for consumer goods.
Domain
Consumer goods / Retail / Hard Home / Supply Chain
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure
Required skills
Global procurement strategy, clean-sheet costing, RFP management, supplier negotiation, commodity costing, supply chain verticalization, data-driven analysis, cross-functional partnership, AI-enabled tool integration, cost transparency.
Preferred skills
Experience with international manufacturing partners, upstream sourcing, market-making, price-risk management, AI-enabled procurement tools.
Technologies
AI-enabled procurement tools, vendor-management tools, product-catalog tools, data analytics platforms.
Responsibilities
Define and execute category-level procurement strategies and commercial roadmaps; Drive product-cost reductions through analysis and negotiation; Design and lead end-to-end RFP processes; Develop repeatable negotiation frameworks; Build AI-enabled tools for RFP execution and scenario analysis; Create component-level clean sheets for pricing transparency; Review buy plans and validate category costing; Partner with technology teams to integrate procurement capabilities; Identify opportunities for supply-chain optimization through verticalization and volume consolidation.
Seniority
Senior Manager, strategic leadership with hands-on execution
