Analyst III - Digitization

Johnson Controls, Inc.; Apodaca; Remote; MXN 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson Controls, Inc. is seeking a procurement business partner within its Indirect Procurement organization to support North American operations. You will drive category strategies, identify savings, and collaborate with business units across plants, distribution centers, and offices.

The role emphasizes spend analysis, supplier engagement, contract compliance, and process improvements to reduce total cost of ownership while delivering measurable value to the business.

Qualifications

• Six years of planning, project management, purchasing, or procurement experience; ideally in manufacturing.
• Proficient in English and strong communication skills.
• Excellent analytical skills and business acumen; able to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• As a procurement business partner, interface with one or more business units to implement category strategies and initiatives.
• Identify cost savings and opportunities to improve working capital; drive project plans in operations.
• Act as enabler between business units, category management, and supporting functions to ensure alignment.
• Execute spend analysis: map what, from whom, where, how, and why we buy, and optimize for savings.
• Deploy corporate category strategies; drive supplier adoption and capture negotiated value.
• Standardize demand, drive lower total cost of ownership, and support supplier performance management.
• Prepare RFx documents, lead negotiations for business unit categories and projects.
• Provide timely reporting of key metrics and drive process improvements.

Skills

Procurement experience

English proficiency

Analytical mindset

Multi-priority management

Negotiation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Excel

ERP/MRP systems

Job description

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.

For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.

What you will do

As a part of JCI’s Indirect Procurement organization, you will function as a procurement business partner, interfacing directly with one or more business units to ensure category strategies, programs and corporate initiatives are effectively and efficiently deployed. You will also identify cost savings and trade working capital improvement opportunities and create/drive project plans in manufacturing plants, distribution centers and corporate offices in North America.

How you will do it:

• Be a true business partner for the assigned business unit(s). Understand procurement’s role and how this enables true business success. Understand business priorities and key stakeholder expectations, translate these requirements, and ensure corporate category strategies reflect these needs.
• Be a spokesperson for the indirect procurement organization. Understand where, how and when indirect procurement can deliver value to the business. Clearly articulate how this relates to business needs, represent, and drive this agenda.
• Be the enabler and change agent for the enterprise. Effectively liaise between the assigned business unit, corporate category management team and supporting functions to ensure alignment and accountability in execution and drive action.
• Execute spend analysis for your assigned businessunit. Identify what we buy, who we buy from, where we buy it, how we buy it and why we buy it. Understand how this fits into the broader indirect procurement landscape and how it can be optimized to meet or exceed annual goals related to savings and trade working capital improvement.
• Own the effective and efficient deployment of corporate category strategies for your assigned business units. Drive preferred supplier adoption and utilization to ensure negotiated value is captured.
• Drive business facing procurement strategies to standardize, manage demand and drive a lower total cost of ownership for the business.
• Support daily supplier performance management, ensuring negotiated terms, conditions and service levels are delivered in accordance with contracts. Resolve escalations and issues to avoid impact to operations and user satisfaction.
• Prepare, review and approve RFx documents for on behalf of assigned business units. Lead initiatives and negotiations for business unit-specific categories and projects.
• Responsible for timely and accurate reporting of key metrics.
• Identify, design and execute process improvement initiatives to simplify procurement and cross-functional processes, drive efficiency and increase user satisfaction.

What we look for? Position Requirement

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Minimum of six years of experience in planning, project management, purchasing, or procurement; ideally in a manufacturing environment
• Proficient in English
• Driven, motivated and growth mindset oriented professional
• Proficient in strategic sourcing process for indirect procurement; ideally leading or supporting operational and plant support categories like Logistics, Temporary Labor, MRO, and Facilities
• Good PC / software knowledge/skills; proficient in Excel
• Experience in spend and cost analysis, strong analytical skills and business acumen
• Proficiency in ERP/MRP and its impact on a multi-plant supply chain
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a regionally dispersed and matrix aligned team; holding themselves and others accountable
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, and potentially conflicting, priorities with stakeholder needs
• High level negotiation skills

Johnson Controls does not request pregnancy or HIV testing as a requirement for admission, permanence or promotion.