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We're looking for people who put their innovation to work to advance our success - and their own. Join an organization that ensures a more secure world through connecting and protecting our customers with inventive electrical solutions.

As nVent continues to scale, we are elevating sourcing into a strategic capability that drives enterprise value, accelerates growth, and structurally improves margins while strengthening global supply resilience and agility.

The Vice President, Enterprise Sourcing & Procurement will lead and scale the company's global sourcing strategy and operating model, delivering enterprise value through cost competitiveness, supplier performance, and capability advancement. This role will drive global category strategy, supplier performance, supplier quality, and procurement capabilities to deliver measurable value, strengthen supplier partnerships, and enhance enterprise competitiveness.

Enterprise Leadership & Transformation

• Lead design and deployment of our sourcing operating model (GCM, SRM, SQM, CoE).
• Drive sourcing transformation initiatives aligned to business goals and growth strategy.
• Establish governance, decision rights, and enterprise standards.
• Owns enterprise risk, including geopolitical sourcing strategy, structural risk frameworks, crisis response.

Sourcing Strategy & Category Management

• Define and implement Global Category Management (GCM) strategies across direct and indirect spend.

• Lead major sourcing initiatives including supplier consolidation and strategic sourcing.

• Drive enterprise-wide cost optimization and commercial excellence.

• Own enterprise value delivery, including sourcing productivity, cost-out, and margin impact.
• Drive supplier consolidation and standardization to reduce complexity and improve leverage.

Supplier Management & Quality

• Establish and scale Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) for critical and strategic suppliers.
• Ensure supplier performance across cost, quality, delivery, and innovation.
• Partner with Quality to implement Supplier Quality Management (SQM) standards.

Procurement Capability & Systems

• Build and lead a Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) to standardize processes, enable scale, and drive enterprise capability.
• Enable decision-making through data, analytics, and digital platforms (e.g., Ivalua).
• Standardize sourcing processes, tools, and governance globally.

Operational Excellence & Resource Optimization

• Drive resource optimization by aligning existing sourcing capacity to the operating model, optimizing capacity without proportional headcount growth.
• Improve sourcing productivity and reduce transactional complexity.
• Establish a management operating system with key performance initiatives and value tracking.

Talent & Organizational Development

• Build a high-performing global sourcing organization.
• Strengthen leadership pipeline, succession bench, and capability development.
• Drive a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and enterprise thinking.

• Master's degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• 15+ years of sourcing, procurement, or supply chain experience.
• 10+ years in senior leadership roles within global, matrixed organizations.
• Proven experience leading sourcing or procurement transformation with measurable outcomes or center-led models.
• Meaningful experience developing future leaders.
• Strong experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier performance and contract negotiation.
• Track record of strong data-driven decision-making.
• Enterprise strategy creation experience.
• Experience implementing procurement platforms (e.g., S2C systems) preferred.
• Deep understanding of global supply markets and risk management preferred.
• Track record of delivering significant cost savings and productivity improvement preferred.
• Applied AI and digital transformation in sourcing preferred.
• Ability to travel 25-35%, domestic and internationally.

WE HAVE:

• A dynamic global reach with diverse operations around the world that will stretch your abilities, provide plentiful career opportunities, and allow you to make an impact every day

  • nVent is a leading global provider of electrical connection and protection solutions. We believe our inventive electrical solutions enable safer systems and ensure a more secure world. We design, manufacture, market, install and service high performance products and solutions that connect and protect some of the world's most sensitive equipment, buildings and critical processes. We offer a comprehensive range of systems protection and electrical connections solutions across industry-leading brands that are recognized globally for quality, reliability and innovation.

  • Our principal office is in London and our management office in the United States is in Minneapolis. Our robust portfolio of leading electrical product brands dates back more than 100 years and includes nVent CADDY, ERICO, HOFFMAN, ILSCO, SCHROFF and TRACHTE. Learn more at www.nvent.com.

• Commitment to strengthen communities where our employees live and work

  • We encourage and support the philanthropic activities of our employees worldwide

  • Through our nVent in Action matching program, we provide funds to nonprofit and educational organizations where our employees volunteer or donate money

• Core values that shape our culture and drive us to deliver the best for our employees and our customers. We're known for being:

  • Innovative & adaptable

  • Dedicated to absolute integrity

  • Focused on the customer first

  • Respectful and team oriented

  • Optimistic and energizing

  • Accountable for performance

• Benefits to support the lives of our employees

Pay Transparency
nVent's pay scale is based on the expected range of base pay for this job and the employee's work location. Employee pay within this range will be based on a combination of factors including knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, education, and performance. Where federal, state, or local minimum wage requirements exist, employee pay will comply.
Compensation Range:

Depending on the position offered, employee may be eligible for other forms of compensation, such as annual incentives.

Benefit Overview

At nVent, we value our people and their health and well-being. We provide a broad benefits package with meaningful programs for eligible full-time employees that includes:

• Medical, dental, and vision plans along with flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability benefits, critical illness, accident insurance and life insurance.

• A 401(k) retirement plan and an employee stock purchase plan - both include a company match.

• Other supplemental benefits may include tuition reimbursement, caregiver, personal and parental leave, back-up care services, paid time off including volunteer time, a well-being program, and/or legal & identity theft protection.

At nVent, we connect and protect our customers with inventive electrical solutions. People are our most valuable asset. Inclusion and diversity means that we celebrate and encourage each other's authenticity because we understand that uniqueness sparks growth.