Global Sourcing Analyst

About the role

The Global Sourcing Analyst supports a highly centralized sourcing organization by providing advanced analytics, commodity intelligence, and supplier performance insights across a global spend. This role enables category strategies covering steel, aluminum, castings, forgings, and fabricated metal components by translating complex cost drivers into actionable sourcing decisions.

Responsibilities

• Analyze global spend across regions, plants, and suppliers to enable enterprise-level leverage and governance
• Support centralized category strategies by identifying consolidation, specification harmonization, and should-cost opportunities
• Develop and maintain should cost models incorporating: raw material indices, conversion costs, yield loss, scrap rates, and freight
• Track and analyze global commodity markets, including: index movements, surcharges, and alloy premiums, energy, freight, and FX impacts, regional cost differentials (NA, EMEA, APAC)
• Maintain commodity dashboards and forecasts to support negotiation timing and index-based pricing mechanisms
• Support global supplier segmentation by cost position, capability, capacity, and geographic risk
• Maintain supplier performance scorecards across cost, delivery, quality, and responsiveness
• Conduct supplier financial and supply chain risk analyses (capacity constraints, geopolitical exposure, energy dependency)
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies for critical products
• Provide analytical support for centralized sourcing events (RFI/RFQ/RFP), including: bid normalization and scenario modeling, award recommendations based on TCO, risk, and capacity
• Track sourcing pipeline initiatives and validate savings in partnership with Finance
• Partner with Commodity Managers to execute center-led, globally governed sourcing strategies
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support contract compliance tracking across decentralized plant usage
• Work with Operations and Quality on supplier performance, yield, and continuous improvement
• Align closely with Finance on P&L impact, savings realization, and inflation recovery
• Support dual-sourcing and regionalization strategies