At Trane TechnologiesTM and through our businesses including Trane® and Thermo King®, we create innovative climate solutions for buildings, homes, and transportation that challenge what’s possible for a sustainable world. We're a team that dares to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities. We believe in a better future when we uplift others and enable our people to thrive at work and at home. We boldly go. Position Responsibilities:
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
- Perform timely, cost-conscious procurement of production/inventory/MRO items.
- Receive and analyze requisitions to determine quantity, specifications and delivery requirements.
- From approved supplier list, recommend and select suppliers to fulfill scheduled plant deliveries.
- Responsible for the on-boarding of new selected suppliers relative to material planning.
- Ensure up-to-date ABC classification is maintained for planning, and other key inputs into the PFEP process
- Ensure optimal inventory levels and safety stock are maintained for their parts
- Coordinate with Quality Assurance to resolve quality issues with suppliers.
- Maintain proactive shortage identification and management - help flag root causes & corrective actions.
- Identify total cost and cash flow opportunities with suppliers.
- Analyze and select parts for KanBan and Supplier replenishment.
- May lead and direct others to accomplish desired organizational objectives.
- Expedite deliveries to meet and exceed scheduled critical requirements.
- Maintain material plan at the time fence to ensure continuity of supply.
- Coordinate with production planners for solutions when parts cannot be delivered as promised.




- Maintain and continuously evaluate supplier performance and escalate to Procurement when issues occur.
- Resolve invoicing discrepancies with suppliers and accounting.
- Analyze material and capacity availability to provide customer promise dates for sales orders.
- Maintains item master lead time information based upon process improvements, current constraints, total current demand by product family, and priority information.
- Manage internal and SOMI/VMI material to meet schedules.
- Interface with required functional groups to resolve challenging delivery requirements.
- Communicate forecasts and replenishment plans to supplier.
- Review open requirements, monitoring vendor performance and expediting where necessary. Ensure that problems relating to delivery, quality or pricing are promptly conveyed to the supplier and resolved in a timely manner.
- Productivity: identify and implement cost reduction/productivity projects to meet the corporate initiatives/goals. Maintain pipeline and financial records for reporting and tracking productivity. Key Competencies and Success Factors:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.
- Maintain product knowledge in terms of options, substitutions, critical functions/components, etc.
- Understand material specifications in terms of substitutions, quality, engineering requirements, etc.




- Maintain basic knowledge of supplier processes and capabilities.
- Understand special test/witness certification requirements and actions to achieve certification.
- Understanding of Kanban and JIT systems.
- Able to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
- Broad working knowledge and experience with ISO procedures.
- Must possess a strong customer service orientation and must provide dedicated support of internal and external customer requirements.
- Relationship Management
- Works collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders - Team player who demonstrates patience, flexibility and honesty
- Self-starter, who is able to plan and manage his/her own work, takes initiative and strives to meet deadlines
- Must be a strong written and verbal communicator, able to communicate to various audiences effectively
- Team oriented, must have the ability to work cohesively with others.
- Must be able to work well with external suppliers.
- Must possess ability to work well in a manufacturing environment.
- Must be detail-oriented and self-motivated, able to work with mínimal supervision.
- Must be able to work in a fast-paced, multi-tasked environment. Experience and Skills Required: - Masters degree in supply chain, Operations, Engineering or related field.
- Language: Fluent in English is mandatory - French skills can be a premio
- Considerable knowledge of industry related supply base.
- Skilled in production and supplier scheduling.
- Knowledgeable of supplier processes and capabilities.
- Able to provide direction and training to peers as needed.
- Basic mathematical skills
- Experience with rate based or flow line (non-MRP) and job shop manufacturing environments.
- Experience i

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