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We make products for the data center, utility, industrial, commercial, machine building, residential, aerospace and mobility markets.\nWhat you’ll do:\nLeads the development, management and oversight of standard supply chain processes and develops China strategies through consensus building to implement enterprise-wide cost effective solutions for Mobility. This position develops long term category strategic planning, creates category metrics and ensures category strategies are aligned, deployed and meet the requirements of Supply Chain Management across Mobility China operations.\nDevelop and execute China indirect category strategies aligned with Mobility business objectives, including growth, cost-out, supply continuity, and operational excellence.\nLead end-to-end sourcing and procurement activities for capital projects in partnership with plants and suppliers, ensuring compliance, competitiveness, and timely execution.\nConduct market intelligence and commodity trend analysis to support sourcing decisions, identify risks, and implement mitigation plans for key indirect categories.\nPartner with site stakeholders to understand demand forecasts, business requirements, and growth plans, translating them into effective category strategies and sourcing roadmaps.\nManage assigned indirect categories by working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure supply reliability, competitive total cost, on-time delivery, risk mitigation, and quality performance.\nCollaborate with plant teams to identify cost-out opportunities, execute savings initiatives across indirect categories, and drive achievement of regional supply chain KPIs.\nAnalyze spend data, prioritize sourcing opportunities, launch sourcing initiatives, and lead negotiations for complex projects in partnership with plant buyers.\nEngage proactively with internal customers and stakeholders to minimize operational disruption, reduce equipment downtime risk, and optimize total cost of ownership.\nDrive continuous improvement across procurement processes, team practices, and stakeholder engagement to improve efficiency, compliance, and scalability.\nEstablish and monitor key procurement performance metrics to evaluate process effectiveness, supplier performance, cost competitiveness, and risk exposure.\nCommunicate and collaborate with regional and global Supply Chain teams to align opportunities, best practices, and execution plans with overall category strategies.\nParticipate in risk assessment and risk management activities with project teams, global supply chain leaders, and commodity managers to support business continuity.\nLead governance reviews with internal and external stakeholders to ensure compliance with SCM policies, strengthen supplier performance, and enhance customer satisfaction.\nLeverage data analytics, digital tools, and automation opportunities to improve procurement visibility, decision-making, and functional excellence.\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business Administration, or Engineering from an accredited institution.\nMinimum 5 years’ professional experience in indirect purchase Management covering all indirect categories\nDemonstrates strong knowledge of current trends and best practices in indirect procurement and supply chain management.\nExhibits excellent communication, customer service and interpersonal skills necessary to converse with diverse group of stakeholders including senior management, (internal and at the suppliers), operations and supply chain management personnel.\nDemonstrates ability in strategic process creation and implementation.\nDemonstrates knowledge and experience in successfully deploying category strategies and driving cost-out.\nDemonstrates ability to lead cross-functional in the development, implementation, and achievement of business results for cross-functional business initiatives and category strategies.\nMust be able to take a leadership role in driving change in the organization.\nMust be a creative thinker and have a vision of how to drive the organization to the next level of strategic procurement management.\nMust have a demonstrated ability in the area of strategic process creation and implementation\nMust demonstrate a bias for action and implementation\nMust be able to manage multiple tasks regionally and globally\nMust be able to identify and implement emerging supply management tools.\nMust have strong motivation and mentoring skills\nStrong oral and written communication skills\nMust have the ability to direct or indirectly lead and manage people within the organization\nEaton announced, on January 26, 2026, the intent to separate its Mobility Group (including both the Vehicle and eMobility segments) into an independent, publicly traded company. 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