Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist (Commodity Manager)- Engineering, Finance, Legal - hybrid (m/f/d)

As an Indirect Sr. Strategic Sourcing Specialist at Honeywell, you will drive enterprise sourcing initiatives through end-to-end supplier management, supply base optimization, and cost improvement initiatives. You will support supplier onboarding, data validation, and sourcing execution while ensuring compliance with Honeywell's sourcing policies.

Partnering with Procurement, Legal, Finance, Engineering, and Business stakeholders, you will facilitate timely contract execution, maintain data integrity, and mitigate supplier risks, including during M&A activities. Your contributions will include supplier due diligence and contract continuity planning to ensure seamless transitions. This role, reporting to the Director of Strategic Sourcing and based in Bucharest, Romania, will significantly enhance sourcing effectiveness and the execution of strategic initiatives.

This is a hybrid role (3 days from the office and 2 days from home).

• Drive and execute plan with supporting strategies for key professional services needs including any legal services, financial services, annual audits, advisory services, tax services, and various other professional service needs to support internal stakeholders
• Drive Total Cost of Ownership optimization through a mix of levers such as competition, price, service design, consumption, ratios of Subcontractors to Contract Service Workers.
• Manage supplier selection, RFI and RFQ processes, eAuction, negotiation, contracting and supplier performance processes, manage Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and Statements of Work (SoWs) from inception through negotiation, completion and maintenance.
• Manage Professional Services category strategies including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost analysis, market analysis and global technology / economic trends tracking.
• Ensure rigorous management of key suppliers through processes such as score carding, Business Reviews, Service Level analysis and corrective actions.
• Align with key internal stakeholders to build sourcing strategy to support short-term and long-term professional services needs
• Improve Working Capital through Payment Terms extensions, Payment cycle optimization, and other initiatives, assist in operational procurement escalations, reconciliations and reporting as required.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in Professional Services Strategic Sourcing (min. 3-5 years), strong category management experience- (min. 3-5 years)
• Strong contract negotiation experience (Terms and Conditions such as Limitation of Liability, Warranty, Indemnification, IP, security, pay terms, etc.)
• Experience in RFPs/RFQs and Statements of Work
• Demonstrated impact in achieving category savings and working capital goals
• Fluent English

We offer:

• Competitive salary regularly based on your performance
• Enjoy 25 vacation days per year, plus extra days off for life's special events
• Meal vouchers
• Flexible benefits basket with monthly budget allocated (top up medical insurance, life insurance, pension, vacation/ cultural/ fuel vouchers)
• Medical Insurance Plan paid by the company

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.