Senior Director, China for Global and Horizontal Category Management, Global Procurement

The Head of Horizontal Category Management & China for Global leads the strategy, governance, and execution of global “horizontal” or foundational categories that serve all business units and product lines — and directs the China for Global supplier development and execution organization. This role is responsible for defining and deploying enterprise-wide category strategies across key horizontal commodities while simultaneously building, qualifying, and ramping China-based suppliers aligned to BU technology roadmaps and advanced sourcing needs.

The position drives global scale, supplier consolidation, and value creation through a coordinated category management approach aligned with business unit priorities and engineering roadmaps. The China for Global mandate adds an execution-focused arm that scouts, vets, qualifies, and ramps suppliers in China to serve global BU requirements — functioning as a dedicated project execution resource for Global Category Teams (GCTs) and Procurement Product Management Teams (PMTs), not as a parallel region or independent supply base.

The role operates within a global procurement model where category strategy is led centrally and execution is aligned across regions and business units, enabling consistency, leverage, and operational excellence. Leadership scope includes Horizontal Teams across product category codes serving all 4 BU verticals, plus the China for Global execution organization. Leads 7+ direct reports with total organization size of ~80+.

Within the procurement operating model, this role serves as the single source of truth for category economics across all horizontal categories worldwide — setting the multi-year supply market vision, governing the supplier panel, and driving should-cost discipline — while ensuring China for Global delivers a qualified, ramped pipeline of suppliers ready for BU deployment.

Responsibilities1. Category Strategy and Value Delivery

• Define and execute global category strategies across horizontal categories (e.g., metals, electronics, wire/cable, packaging, fasteners), aligned to enterprise priorities.

• Drive cost optimization, total cost of ownership improvements, and value engineering initiatives.

• Establish category roadmaps with clear cost, risk, and performance targets over a multi-year horizon.

2. China for Global — Supplier Development & Execution

• Lead the China for Global organization as a dedicated execution arm of the GCTs and PMTs — scouting, vetting, qualifying, and ramping China-based suppliers aligned to BU technology and product roadmaps.

• Manage BU-related supplier projects end-to-end: identification, technical qualification, capacity validation, quality certification, and production ramp.

• Handle unique and emerging categories tied to BU advanced technology groups, leveraging China's manufacturing and technology ecosystem.