Build your best future with the Johnson Controls team

As a global leader in smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings, our mission is to reimagine the performance of buildings to serve people, places, and the planet. Join a winning team that enables you to build your best future! Our teams are uniquely positioned to support a multitude of industries across the globe. You will have the opportunity to develop yourself through meaningful work projects and learning opportunities. We strive to provide our employees with an experience focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional well-being. Become a member of the Johnson Controls family and thrive in an empowering company culture where every voice and idea is valued – your next great opportunity is just a few clicks away!

What we offer

•    Competitive salary and bonus
•    Paid vacation 15 days to start with additional paid holidays and sick time
•    Comprehensive benefits package including 401K, medical, dental, and vision care – available day one
•    On-the-job/cross-training opportunities
•    Encouraging and collaborative team environment
•    Dedication to safety through our Zero Harm policy

What you will do

At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn, and play.
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Procurement Director to lead the Building Solutions North America business unit within Johnson Controls. You will be the business partner to the respective business units, responsible for all aspects of Procurement within the business. You will report directly to the VP Procurement North America region and have a dotted line to the VP/GMs of the businesses.

How you will do it

•    Manage internal relationships with key business partners including business unit VP/GMs and functional leaders such as BU controller, transformation leader, HR, IT, installation excellence, and service leader.
•    Effectively engage in business planning process to support business goals and objectives.
•    Be an active member of the BU senior leadership team. Develop a true partnership with the business with deep understanding of the business strategy, goals and objectives and translate into strategic procurement actions that deliver value.
•    Lead a team of approximately 30 procurement professionals located primarily in North America supporting the business units.
•    Develop and implement annual strategic and tactical plans for the function.
•    Responsible for delivering annual goals such as cost savings, trade working capital improvement, supply base rationalization, revenue growth, and margin improvement.
•    Drive continuous improvement and functional excellence, bringing to bear leading internal and external methodologies.
•    Collaborate with regional and global category management organization to support the development and implementation/execution of category strategies.
•    Responsible for the talent development and succession planning within the procurement function, with support from central procurement talent development team.
•    Drive efficiency and simplification of Procure to Pay processes.

What we look for

•    8+ years of procurement experience including experience leading a team.
•    Ability to drive strategic supplier partnerships encouraging innovations with business partners and strategic category management.
•    Excellent negotiation skills and ability to manage complex supplier partnerships driving year over year continuous improvement.
•    Strong leadership skills and ability to operate effectively in a large, matrix organization.
•    Excellent communication skills, ability to influence and drive alignment on sophisticated strategies with the business.
•    Solid understanding of procurement policy, processes, and tools in a highly efficient shared service center architecture.
•    Results driven. Able to achieve goals, self-motivate, take initiative, and generally operate with minimal direction.
•    Able to challenge status quo and build innovative sourcing ideas that drive cost reduction.