Lead Category Manager (Electrotechnical) – Electrotechnical Category Management

Job Description

Lead Category Manager (Electrotechnical) | L3Harris Technologies

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at L3Harris Technologies, located in Palm Bay, FL, Rochester, NY, Wilmington, MA, Chantilly, VA, Colorado Springs, CO, Fort Wayne, IN, Camden, NJ, or Greenville, TX. L3Harris is the Trusted Disruptor in defense tech, delivering end-to-end technology solutions that connect space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains in the interest of national security. This role is crucial for strengthening enterprise supply chain resilience by developing and executing multi-year strategies that optimize cost, quality, service, supply continuity, and compliance for critical electrotechnical components across mission-critical systems.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: 9/80 (Every other Friday off)
• Location: In-person, Palm Bay, FL OR Rochester, NY OR Wilmington, MA OR Chantilly, VA OR Colorado Springs, CO OR Fort Wayne, IN OR Camden, NJ OR Greenville, TX
• Pay: $87500–$186500 yearly
• Team: Space and Mission Systems Category Management Team
• Mission: Develop and execute multi-year category strategies to optimize cost, quality, service, supply continuity, and compliance across assigned electrotechnical commodities.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategy Development: Develop and execute multi-year category strategies focused on electrotechnical components, systems, and assemblies—including power electronics, electrical interconnects, passive and active components, motors, transformers, and related subsystems—to drive cost reduction, supply continuity, risk mitigation, and compliance.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as the category subject matter expert for electrotechnical commodities, partnering with internal stakeholders to align sourcing strategies with business objectives, technical specifications, and product roadmaps.
• Supplier Management: Lead supplier diversification, strategic negotiations, and long-term agreements to strengthen supply resilience for critical electrotechnical components and maximize enterprise value.
• Risk Mitigation: Drive supplier risk management, component traceability, and due diligence to ensure compliance with sourcing restrictions, import/export controls, ITAR/EAR regulations, and applicable electrotechnical standards.
• Performance Optimization: Manage strategic supplier relationships, performance reviews, and escalations to improve accountability, quality, service, and on-time delivery of electrotechnical commodities while applying procurement levers and analytics to deliver measurable value.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 9 years of prior relevant experience; Or, Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience; Or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Experience: Working with forecast, demand planning, and supplier capacity alignment processes, with a comprehensive knowledge of Category Management and Strategic Sourcing processes.
• Skills: Strong analytical, negotiation, and cross-functional leadership skills; strong communication and collaboration abilities to present and discuss strategy and analysis; capability to influence without direct authority and manage multiple strategic priorities simultaneously.
• Bonus: Experience in the Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry with specific FAR/DFAR knowledge; self-managed/motivated with a desire for continuous improvement; strong interpersonal and planning skills to lead change through influencing abilities; and the ability to coordinate across commodities and segments.