Lennox (NYSE: LII) is an industry leader in energy-efficient climate-control solutions founded over a century ago on the principles of integrity and innovation. Dedicated to sustainability and creating comfortable, healthier environments for our residential and commercial customers while reducing their carbon footprint, we lead the field in innovation with our cooling, heating, indoor air quality, and refrigeration systems.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

The Strategic Sourcing Manager will partner and work together with our Facility and Real Estate teams to increase effectiveness of our Facilities procurement by streamlining accountabilities, building capabilities, and leveraging knowledge, relationships, and business strategies across markets.

This Team Member will increase efficiency of our Facilities procurement by driving scale where it makes sense, decreasing fragmentation, prioritizing higher impact areas, leveraging technology and data, and drive performance that unlocks growth for Lennox.

The role will foster and build a culture of collaboration and agility to enable an efficient project roll-out process. The Team Member will ensure close alignment in strategy with functions and Facilities Directors and Vice Presidents by defining and utilizing a robust support network for the whole team and providing clarity on the sourcing process as well as roles and responsibilities.

This team member will also be responsible for the effective delivery of Building Operations Management at the Lennox campus. The Strategic Sourcing Manager will apply best practices to improve efficiency by reducing operating costs while increasing productivity.

About Worldwide Sourcing

Part of the Worldwide Sourcing family, Indirect Sourcing is responsible for over $300M in spend. Getting the right services and materials, sustainably sourced and ensuring responsible procurement is critical to ensuring our brand grows. Our teams work closely with the business to understand stakeholders needs, bring innovation to meet changing consumer, employees, and customer’s needs, and drive financial value for Lennox through competitive buying. We’re at the forefront of digital procurement, bringing new tools and analytics to drive data-based decisions.

Our strategy is ‘Procurement with Purpose’ and focuses on buying responsibly, buying better, and growing together with partners around the world. Our ambition is based on three key drivers being:  Integrity, Respect and Excellence.

This Team Member will be responsible for sourcing and supplier strategy and execution for all third party spend across Facilities primarily and other categories as assigned. This Team Member will support the business requirements of Facilities to drive growth through strategic supplier management, cost and value management, sustainability, and innovation.

Opportunity Responsibilities 

• Understand the business needs related to Facilities spend portfolios and bring deep expertise and insights across the value chain and supply base to translate the business requirements into effective future-fit procurement strategies.
• Connect strategy & execution aligned to Lennox, Global Business Groups & Business Unit goals and priorities.
• Together with Business Unit and Facilities teams create effective and efficient brand operating models that are best fit for brand and category.
• Balance where to maximize the power of Lennox and where to drive brand specific solutions.
• Act as the voice of the Worldwide Sourcing to the wider Facilities procurement community.
• Lead rigorous execution of the priorities and transformation initiatives across the Facilities value chain with a brand & consumer lens.
• Ensure Facilities procurement delivery of financial targets (including value delivery) for the Business Unit.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders globally, to support business and Procurement priorities and enable rapid alignment and deployment.
• Ensure Portfolio fundamentals (i.e., data consistency, data insights, recurring stakeholder communications, contracts, etc.) are all put in place for the Business Unit.
• Support future proofing the Facilities portfolio by driving digital approaches that help simplify the life for our brand teams, while unlocking efficiencies in the Facilities value chain.
• Support internal performance management and reporting including creation and stewardship of relevant key performance indicators for the relevant Business Unit and Facilities teams.
• Attend weekly venue operations meetings to ensure all works are clearly communicated across the team.
• Lead periodic audit compliance across our business.
• Where appropriate ensure client event de-brief meetings occur with fully documented outcomes and agreed actions.
• To deal with any requests from your line manager or CEO, required to fulfil the need of the department or business.
• To manage all suppliers against contractual KPIs and SLAs relating to Facilities Management and Building Operations.
• Ensure that the highest levels of service delivery and customer experience are provided and to constantly seek to improve standards.
• Produce an annual business unit plan in line with agreed key priorities.
• Support the Operations Director and contribute as required in the Campus annual business planning process.
• Produce annual Capital expenditure requests with supporting robust business cases.
• Produce monthly activity and variance reports.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR: 

• 10+ years of procurement or management consultancy experience, including proven and deep experience in Facilities procurement.
• Expert in stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding of Facilities value chain, Facilities trends knowledge. Knowledge across multiple Facilities portfolios and supply markets.
• Experience on large-scale project management.
• Demonstrated and proven leadership capabilities to lead transformative initiatives.
• Experience in shaping and leading transformational business process reengineering, with experience driving Change Management initiatives.
• Knowledge of and passion for sustainability, including social sustainability.

General Skills & Competencies

• Ability to work under pressure and in a complex global environment balancing a broad spectrum of stakeholder requirements.
• Comfortable working in conditions of ambiguity and leading through change.
• Ability to build and evolve mutually beneficially strategic stakeholder relationships from a previously service base delivery, with the goal of growing presence and influence.
• Able to create and drive adoption and execution of a shared vision and strategy for change.
• Ability to interact with senior stakeholders effectively and efficiently while functionally understanding their needs and deliver effective balanced solutions.
• Delivers change whilst managing the interface between “day to day” and improvement projects.
• Passion for continuous improvement.
• Strong verbal and written communication & selling skills, including creation and delivery of effective presentations.
• High financial and business acumen, and ability to interpret data to generate data-led insights.
• Strong project and time management skills managing complex global projects.
• Tenacious and resilient in the pursuit of challenging goals.

WHAT WE OFFER:

At Lennox, we realize that our greatest assets are our employees. This is why we are committed to providing limitless opportunities for growth and development of all our employees, largely promoting from within the organization. Lennox offers employees a variety of flexible work options. This position is a hybrid role working Monday through Thursday in the office with the option to work on Friday at home.

Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Excellent medical plans designed to support healthy lifestyles
• Mental and financial health programs
• Outstanding 401k with company match and 1-year bonus 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program 
• Community involvement opportunities 
• Robust Employee Assistance Program
• Relocation assistance is available 
• And much, much more!

The compensation range for this position is approximately $110,000 - $125,000 and will be based on the candidate’s qualification, experience, and education.

WE VALUE DIVERSITY

Here at Lennox, we believe that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Our goal is to build workplaces that reflect the communities where we live and work, support the growth and development of each team member as they strive to reach their full potential, and empower them to be their authentic selves.  Lennox is an equal opportunity employer.

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