Senior Manager, Global Category Sourcing

Fortune Brands Innovations, Inc. is an industry-leading innovation company focused on creating smarter, safer and more beautiful homes and improving lives. Our driving purpose is that we elevate every life by transforming spaces into havens. We believe our work and our brands can have incredibly positive impacts for not just our business and shareholders, but for people and the planet, too.

When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team who are empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive and diverse culture where everyone is encouraged and empowered to be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.

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As a Senior Manager, Global Category Sourcing, you will lead strategic sourcing activities for multiple assigned categories. You will work closely with global supply chain leaders across all Fortune Brands to develop & implement sourcing strategies that would effectively reduce the total cost of ownership of category spend, leveraging world-class negotiation skills, tools, and processes. You will lead the transformations in collaboration with Finance & our stakeholders of all impacted organizational functions.

Location: This position is eligible for a hybrid schedule based out of Deerfield, IL. Effective mid-2025, Fortune Brands will transition to a new world-class campus in Deerfield, bringing together associates from across our U.S. offices, brands, and functions. The campus will offer vibrant workspaces for collaboration, along with amenities for dining, onsite daycare, fitness and recreation.

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

• Develop an effective strategy Manage for the assigned categories including the study and analysis of the market conditions, global technical and manufacturing capabilities to feed multiple FBIN sites, the best total cost of ownership to ensure that materials are purchased at competitive prices.
• Lead and execute supplier agreements to protect different FBIN businesses.
• Work with the Global Sourcing Team to embed a ‘Should Cost’ methodology into supplier negotiations.
• Build, recruit, mentor and train a high performing team that will support FBIN’s future strategy.
• Lead sourcing efforts to develop the lowest total cost of ownership, improving our competitiveness, service levels and quality position.
• Provide plans and deliver annual improvement goals for key performance indicators – cost, quality, delivery and working capital.
• Develop requests for quotations and proposals, analyze supplier responses, negotiate, and award contracts. Manage post-agreement supplier activities.
• Drive productivity by working closely with operational and supply chain champions, continually improving sourcing processes, driving standardization of common items, and eliminating waste in the supply chain.
• Support the new product development process as necessary. Work directly with Sourcing New Product Design Team to provide a clear supply chain/sourcing strategy to support the new product initiative; evaluate potential suppliers to validate they can meet expectations. 
• Manage the category sourcing aspects of the NPD process.
• Closely interface with Supplier Quality Engineering to ensure supplier quality performance meets FBIN targets.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in Category Sourcing, Regional Sourcing and or Global Sourcing roles with a demonstrated experience managing multiple categories and supply bases across multiple regions.
• Deep understanding of best-in-class procurement practices including extensive end-to-end experience in Sourcing process, Negotiations, Supplier & Industry Analysis, and RFx expertise.
• Experience leading global teams, across multiple regions.
• Able to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

COMPETENCIES:

• Ability to develop a culture of teamwork.
• Relish change and possess a passion for excellence.
• Strategic planning/thinking skills, coupled with analytical and execution skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for interaction at all levels of the organization.
• Prior experience with Global supply base.
• Lead cross-functional strategic supply projects as necessary.

Fortune Brands believes in fair and equitable pay. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is Hiring Pay Range: $124,000 USD - $190,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based sales incentive plan.

At Fortune Brands, we support the overall health and wellness of our associates by offering comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company contribution, product discounts, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays per policy), inclusive fertility / adoption benefits, and more. We offer numerous Employee Resource Groups to support inclusivity and our associates’ feeling of belonging at work.

Fortune Brands is a brand, innovation and channel leader focused on exciting, supercharged categories in the home products, security and commercial building markets. Our portfolio of brands includes Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.

Fortune Brands is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois and trades on the NYSE as FBIN

Equal Employment Opportunity:

FBIN is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. To support our efforts, we invite you to voluntarily share your gender, ethnicity, and veteran status. This information is confidential and helps us ensure an inclusive hiring process and improve our diversity initiatives.

Reasonable Accommodations:

FBIN is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or interview process, please contact us at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request along with your contact information. Resumes submitted to this email address will not be responded to.

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