Sr. Mgr, Strategic Sourcing - Marketing Category

Company Overview

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.

Job Description

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

This Team Member will increase efficiency of our marketing 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 Marketing 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.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

• Understand the business needs related to marketing 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 marketing 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 marketing procurement community.
• Lead rigorous execution of the priorities and transformation initiatives across the marketing value chain with a brand & consumer lens.
• Ensure Marketing procurement delivery of OKR's and 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 marketing portfolio by driving digital approaches that help simplify the life for our brand teams, while unlocking efficiencies in the marketing value chain.
• Support internal performance management and reporting including creation and stewardship of relevant key performance indicators for the relevant Business Unit and marketing teams.

Qualifications

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of procurement or management consultancy experience, including proven and deep experience in Marketing procurement.
• Expert in stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding of marketing value chain, marketing trends knowledge. Knowledge across multiple Marketing 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.

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 - $140,000 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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