Senior Global Indirect Sourcing Category Manager

Company Description
Fortune Brands Innovations is an industry-leading home, security and digital products company. We’re advancing exciting innovations across our portfolio, which includes: Moen, House of Rohl, Aqualisa, SpringWell, Therma-Tru, Larson, Fiberon, Master Lock, SentrySafe and Yale residential.
At Fortune Brands, we’re building something big. We’re advancing exciting innovations in a
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ll of our products and processes. We’re delivering trust, dependability, sustainability, and style. To make it all happen, we’ve transformed our workplace into an environment where smart, ambitious people have the support to reach their fullest potential.
When you join Fortune Brands, you become part of a high-performing team empowered to think big, learn fast and make bold decisions. We support an inclusive culture where everyone is encouraged be their authentic selves, and where our differences and unique perspectives are a key strength.
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Job Description
As the Sr. Logistics Category Manager you will own the sourcing strategy for Fortune Brands' transportation and logistics spend, a portfolio exceeding $300M annually across truckload, LTL, parcel, intermodal, and international modes. You will work closely with global business and functional leaders across all of Fortune Brands to develop and implement sourcing strategies that reduce total cost of ownership, strengthen network resilience, and improve service performance, leveraging world-class negotiation skills, tools, and processes. This is a senior individual contributor role with visibility to senior executive leadership.
Responsibilities
• Analyze logistics spend, shipment profiles, supplier utilization, freight lanes, service requirements, and other cost drivers to identify sourcing and optimization opportunities.
• Translate category and market intelligence into recommendations for senior leadership and business stakeholders.
• Build and maintain a multi-year sourcing pipeline aligned with business priorities, contract expiration dates, operational needs, and market conditions.
• Monitor transportation markets, capacity trends, fuel costs, carrier economics, regulatory developments, and emerging logistics capabilities.
Strategic Sourcing and Negotiation
• Lead end-to-end logistics sourcing initiatives, including project scoping, data collection, baseline development, market analysis, supplier identification, RFI/RFQ/RFP execution, bid analysis, negotiations, supplier selection, and implementation.
• Conduct competitive bid evaluations and scenario analyses to identify opportunities for supplier consolidation, mode conversion, lane optimization, and cost reduction.
• Develop sourcing strategies that consider total landed cost, service performance, network fit, capacity, risk, sustainability, technology, and operational requirements.
• Create and manage pricing templates that capture relevant logistics cost components, including base transportation rates, fuel surcharges, accessorial charges, minimum charges, storage, detention, demurrage, and other applicable fees.
• Partner with Legal, Risk Management, Finance, Logistics, and Operations to negotiate supplier agreements, statements of work, rate schedules, service-level agreements, and performance requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement
• Partner with business and functional leaders to understand logistics strategies, network requirements, service expectations, volume forecasts, and operational priorities.
• Balance enterprise-wide sourcing opportunities with the specific operational needs of individual businesses, locations, and distribution networks.
• Communicate category strategies, sourcing recommendations, market developments, financial impacts, and supplier risks to senior leadership.
• Lead change management activities necessary to support supplier transitions and adoption of negotiated agreements.
Supplier and Contract Management
• Monitor contract expiration dates, pricing adjustmen

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