Electrical Category Senior Manager

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If you are looking to join a company that can offer long term career opportunities on a global scale backed by a positive, and high energy culture, then Equinix is the place for you! Under Global leadership, the Electrical Category Senior Manager manages multiple and complex categories for Major Capital Equipment (MCE), with cross-functional and regionally diverse scope. Accountable for building and creating the category plan and managing the plan closely with leadership.

Summary:

Accountable for all technical scope for Medium Voltage, Medium/Low Voltage Transformers, Protection & Control and Generator categories. Manages multiple and complex categories with cross-functional and regionally diverse teams up to executive staff. May participate in the development of the business strategy while impacting business direction through the development of innovative strategies or services. Accountable for building, creating and managing the category plan(s). Responsible for proactive communications to leadership regarding plan(s) performance and collaborating closely regarding SWOT areas. May support both regional and global category management functions.

Responsibilities:

Category Strategy

• Drives a global perspective in determining and executing on category strategy.

• Leads a vendor management strategy to reduce and consolidate global vendors for the category.

• Develops, communicates and executes against consistent global procurement strategies and best practices.

• Establishes and delivers procurement goals, metrics, and work plans to meet operational objectives.

• Accountable for spend category management strategies and action plans.

• Monitors and maintains full industry and market knowledge of category, suppliers, best practices, competitive landscape, etc.

• Communicate and collaborate with all key stakeholders including executive level staff to ensure alignment of the overall strategy.

• Communicate and implement strategy effectively throughout the relevant teams.

Product Development

• Leads global standardization and regional productization.

• Establishes and delivers technical, engineering and procurement deliverables for products.

• Drives cross-functional technical engagements with internal and external stakeholders.

• Accountable for new product insertion implementation and process.

• Ownership of full product lifecycle, from inception through general availability to end of life.

• Drive product innovation and value engineering.

Supplier Management

• Leads the end-to-end supplier management process.

• Builds and maintains supplier relationships and drives improvement in the areas of cost, risk, and quality.

• Identify and mitigate supplier risks in the areas of design, product definition, new product insertion and root cause analyses

• Educates suppliers on the mechanics of doing business with Equinix.

• Identifies and resolves various supplier management problems.

• Supports selection of new suppliers

• Acts as point of escalation for suppliers when needed.

Contract Management

• Works with business partners to develop and agree SOW, business and commercial requirements.

• Negotiates contract details with suppliers.

Negotiations

• Interacts globally and cross-regionally and partners with Regional Procurement, business leaders,

and other key stakeholders to execute capital and operational purchases that deliver cost savings, reduce supplier lead times, and improve vendor performance.

• Aligns with internal customers regarding best negotiation positions and provide stakeholders with a balanced view of contract risk and liabilities.

• Directly engages suppliers at the appropriate levels to influence the best outcome for Equinix that exceeds the business requirements.

Cost Savings

• Drives and delivers cost savings opportunities above and beyond expectations.

• Owns cost savings proposals and interacts closely with suppliers, and internal customers, to achieve the cost savings, commercial and other demonstrable business benefits.

Qualifications/Experience

• Engineering experience required in medium voltage equipment, protection and control systems and utility and distribution transformers.

• Over 10 years of engineering experience in Electrical discipline required.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

• Master's degree preferred.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law.