Senior Procurement Manager

At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing. Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

About the Role

Novanta is a global supplier of core technology solutions for medical and advanced industrial OEMs. We’re looking for a results-driven Senior Manager, Procurement to lead buying across multiple sites and business units – Robotics & Automation, Celera Motion, and ATI. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Supply Chain, you’ll own procurement strategy for our multi-site footprint with clear accountability for cost savings, tariff and trade-cost mitigation, and agile sourcing for new product introduction (NPI). It’s a high-impact role for a commercially sharp leader who can operate from the shop floor to the executive review.

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-site procurement – harmonize strategy, policies, and controls across U.S and UK/EMEA operations, turning enterprise-wide spend into leverage.
• Deliver cost savings – own the annual savings roadmap through negotiation, should-cost modeling, competitive bidding, and value engineering with Engineering and Operations.
• Mitigate tariff & trade cost – quantify duty exposure and act on it via alternative sourcing, dual-sourcing, tariff engineering, and preferential trade programs (FTAs, duty drawback).
• Drive landed-cost decisions – model duties, freight, currency, and lead-time risk into total-cost comparisons that shape the supplier footprint.
• Source for NPI – embed procurement early with R&D, qualify suppliers for new and prototype parts, and secure cost, quality, and supply readiness through launch.
• Manage suppliers strategically – build key relationships, run performance reviews, and mitigate single-source, geopolitical, and financial-health risk.
• Raise the bar on systems & process – leverage ERP and analytics (Oracle EBS, SAP, Power BI) for spend visibility, governance, and reporting.
• Lead the team – coach and develop buyers across sites, and act as a change agent for procurement transformation.

Requirements

• 8+ years in procurement or strategic sourcing, including 3+ years leading teams.
• Proven cost savings delivered in a manufacturing environment.
• Experience across multiple sites and/or international operations.
• Working knowledge of global trade, tariffs, HTS classification, and landed cost.
• Hands-on NPI sourcing and strong partnership with engineering.
• Sharp negotiation, supplier-management, and ERP/analytics skills (Oracle EBS, Power BI, Excel).
• Bachelor’s in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related field.

Nice to Have

• MBA or supply chain master’s, and/or CPSM, CSCP, or APICS certification.
• Background in electronics, motion control, or precision engineered products.
• Oracle EBS R12 (ASCP/MRP) or SAP and outsourced-process (OSP) experience.
• Lean or Six Sigma training.

Benefits

Join a collaborative, engineering-led company where procurement has a direct line to the P&L and to the products that matter.