Global Strategic Sourcing Manager (Electrical)
About the role
The Global Strategic Sourcing Manager leads the team responsible for the electrical category strategy, commercial performance, supplier development, and supply continuity. In this role, you will translate business and product plans into clear priorities while strengthening team capability, accountability, and operating rhythm. Partnering across Product Engineering, Supplier Quality, Manufacturing, Planning, Finance, Program Management, and Supply Chain Risk Management, you optimize the supplier base and ensure category strategies balance competitiveness, innovation, quality, continuity, working capital, and total enterprise value. This is a compelling opportunity to influence critical product, supplier, and operational decisions through people leadership, commercial judgment, market awareness, and cross-functional collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Electrical sourcing team by setting direction, clarifying ownership, coaching team members, aligning work with capabilities, and holding the team accountable for business outcomes.
- Develop and execute multi-year category strategies that integrate product roadmaps, market intelligence, cost drivers, supplier capabilities, quality, capacity, regional footprint, working capital, and continuity risk.
- Own category cost and commercial performance by directing negotiation strategies, sourcing events, productivity plans, supplier recovery actions, and long-term agreements covering price, tooling, capital, intellectual property, payment terms, warranty, and capacity.
- Direct forward-looking capacity and demand reviews, identify emerging supplier constraints, establish mitigation and recovery plans, and