Manager, Category Management

About the role

Purpose of the role Own the end-to-end performance of an assigned portfolio within HVAC Category — cost, quality, continuity of supply, supplier risk, innovation and sustainability — by building and executing a global sourcing strategy and a qualified, competitive, resilient supplier panel that supports both the installed base and the new-product pipeline.

What you'll do

• Maintain a live view of the supplier market: capacity, capability, technology roadmaps, financial health, ownership changes
• Run structured cost-driver analysis — raw material indices (copper, aluminium, steel), energy, labour, freight
• Deliver savings through the full lever set: negotiation, competitive re-sourcing, volume consolidation, design-to-value/QVE, specification simplification
• Build and use should-cost and clean-sheet models for the main component families; open supplier cost breakdowns rather than negotiating on lump-sum price
• Manage inflation and raw-material exposure actively — index-linked clauses, hedging support, timing of price agreements, cost-avoidance tracking

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Supply chain
• Logistics
• SAP
• Excel
• HVAC
• AC repair
• MBA or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• Root cause analysis
• PPAP
• SOP writing
• Performance management
• Power BI