Global Commodity Manager

Global Category Leader – Heat Exchangers & Valves

Location: Spain/ Remote

Role Summary

This role is a Global Category Leader position responsible for elevating enterprise procurement capability. The role owns a high-value global spend portfolio of $170M+ and operates as a highly influential individual contributor, leading a global category within a global pod (8-10 members) with a dotted-line model. Success requires executive presence, speed of execution, and the ability to influence across business units.

Category Context

• Highly technical, engineering-driven category ($170M+ spend managed)


• Global supply base with commodity volatility


• Strong integration with engineering and product teams


• Opportunity to drive innovation and design-to-value

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and execute global category strategy aligned with engineering


• Drive supplier innovation and strategic partnerships


• Leverage AI and analytics for cost and sourcing optimization


• Present to senior executives often (including the Chief Procurement Officer as needed)


• Support data centers as a key growth engine for Ingersoll Rand, ensuring the Motors (and others) category strategy and supply base scale to meet accelerating demand

Candidate Profile

• Strong executive presence


• Ability to influence without authority


• Highly structured and organized


• Professional working proficiency in English is required.

Success Measures

• Cost and value delivery


• Innovation and supplier impact


• Speed of execution


• Executive stakeholder alignment

What We offer:

• For roles based in Spain, compensation is determined based on experience, skills, and internal benchmarks aligned with market practices.


• In addition to a competitive salary, we offer:

• Private health insurance


• Life insurance coverage


• Pension plan


• Flexible working arrangements


• Employee stock programs and recognition initiatives


• Access to wellbeing and employee assistance programs

At Ingersoll Rand, we promote a culture of ownership—supporting not only business success but also the wellbeing of our employees and communities

Ingersoll Rand Inc. (NYSE:IR), driven by an entrepreneurial spirit and ownership mindset, is dedicated to helping make life better for our employees, customers and communities. Customers lean on us for our technology-driven excellence in mission-critical flow creation and industrial solutions across 40+ respected brands where our products and services excel in the most complex and harsh conditions. Our employees develop customers for life through their daily commitment to expertise, productivity and efficiency. For more information, visit www.IRCO.com.