Position Overview
Capacity Manager, Global Procurement, manages the end-to-end capacity planning and validation process for large deal quotes across all business units. Leads a team responsible for analyzing manufacturing capacity, coordinating with plant schedulers, and providing timely capacity approvals to support the pricing and quoting workflow. Targets same-day turnaround on capacity checks.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead capacity analysis for large deal opportunities across Power, Thermal, IT Systems, and Services
- Manage the DOP (Delegation of Pricing) capacity planning queue, prioritizing by quote due date and deal size
- Coordinate with plant schedulers to validate capacity availability and rollout dates
- Interface with pricing teams to provide capacity approvals required for executive sign-off
- Manage capacity reservations and forecast sets in ERP systems (Oracle EBS, CyberPlan/Cybertec)
- Track and report on capacity utilization, open projects, and SLA adherence via Sigma tracker
- Standardize capacity information gathering processes across business units
- Drive process improvements to reduce bid speed cycle time (target: same-day turnaround)
- Communicate directly with Sales on capacity status for urgent/large deals
- Manage team workload, assign capacity owners to projects, and ensure coverage
- Support GSA capacity agreements and reservation processes
- Partner with cross-functional teams (Pricing, Sales, Operations, Plant Scheduling) to resolve capacity constraints
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Industrial Engineering, Business, or related field
- 5–8 years of experience in capacity planning, production planning, or supply chain management in a manufacturing environment
- Experience with ERP systems (Oracle EBS preferred) and planning tools (CyberPlan, Cybertec, or similar)
- Strong understanding of manufacturing scheduling, ATP logic, and demand class management
- Experience working across multiple product lines or business units
- Proficiency in CPQ systems and quoting workflows preferred
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- PMP, APICS/ASCM, or similar certification preferred
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• Innovation
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• Learn and seek out development
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About Vertiv
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously, perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks, and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
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