Specialist

Title: Specialist, Tactical Buy Build a career with confidence Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions is committed to creating solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. Summary Established Procurement professional. Carries out Procurement processes, standards, and operational plans, including RFPs, negotiation preparations, and cost analysis. Responds to client inquiries about order status, changes, or cancellations to ensure customer satisfaction. Key Responsibilities Spend Analytics & Category Intelligence Support procurement teams in establishing and maintaining a database for global and regional indirect spend categories. Collect, cleanse, validate, and analyze spend data across ERP, procurement, supplier, and contract sources. Perform spend analysis for RFQ, RFP, lifecycle analysis, savings opportunity assessment, and ROI evaluation. Develop category reports, dashboards, spend baselines, supplier views, and executive-ready analytical insights. Identify spend trends, supplier consolidation opportunities, compliance gaps, sourcing levers, and value creation opportunities. RFx Preparation & Sourcing Support Prepare RFQ, RFP, and RFI packages by leveraging spend analytics, market research, supplier information, and benchmarking inputs. Support sourcing event planning, bid documentation, supplier response tracking, and comparative analysis. Engage internal stakeholders to understand RFx scope of work, business requirements, dependencies, and alignment on RFx timelines. Support lifecycle cost analysis, bid evaluation, supplier scoring, recommendation summaries, and sourcing decision support. Maintain sourcing trackers, action logs, documentation repositories, and approval evidence for audit-ready execution. Contract Lifecycle Management Update and maintain procurement contract databases and contract-related trackers. Provide early indicators to Category Leaders for expiring contracts, renewal windows, missing documentation, and non-compliance risks. Support contract lifecycle analysis, contract repository hygiene, amendment tracking, and obligation visibility. Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Category Leaders, and stakeholders to support contract execution, renewal, and compliance follow-up. Maintain visibility to contract status, ownership, actions, dependencies, and escalation needs. Digital Procurement Tools & Spend Intelligence Manage, integrate, upgrade, and improve digital procurement tools used for spend intelligence, sourcing support, and reporting. Support tools such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Fair Markit, spend analytics platforms, and reporting tools, as applicable.