Sourcing Manager

Overview

The Infrastructure Sourcing Manager provides leadership to the people, processes, and systems supporting North American sourcing for IEWC’s Infrastructure Division. This position is responsible for ensuring that quality products and services are secured at the best total value to support our customer and manufacturing supply needs across the Infrastructure business.

Position Relationships

The Infrastructure Sourcing Manager will report directly to the Global Sourcing Director and will work collaboratively with members of the Supply Chain and Infrastructure Commercial Leadership Team, as well as Managers, Directors, Division and Country Leaders across the organization. This position will provide direct supervision to the North American Infrastructure Sourcing team and works closely with the Commercial, Finance, and Materials Management teams to align sourcing strategies with customer needs, pricing strategies, and long-term business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Continually monitor and assess trends affecting IEWC’s Infrastructure sourcing strategies and benchmark against the best companies in the industry.
• Provide thought leadership in bringing solutions through process improvement, best practices, tools, and technology that will continue to set IEWC apart from its competition and identify new business opportunities.
• Champion process excellence, continuous improvement, and identify best practices, ensuring cross-sharing across the broader Sourcing organization.
• Create a sound North American Infrastructure sourcing strategic plan that supports market vertical business plans.
• Develop sound policies and processes to ensure consistent practices across the Infrastructure division.
• Work collaboratively with all Divisions and Functions to ensure their business success.
• Drive a customer-focused culture by partnering with sales, improving response times, and offering strategic alternatives and supplier capabilities with a “win” mentality.
• Serve as a role model for the Company’s Values and Core Leadership Competencies.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Foster and develop supplier relationships to ensure IEWC is in preferred status with key Infrastructure suppliers.
• Oversee the negotiation of material prices, terms of supply, and cooperative programs to meet IEWC’s plans.
• Partner with suppliers and internal teams to develop joint business plans and identify innovation opportunities.
• Drive strategic supplier positioning by identifying consolidation opportunities that increase IEWC’s volume leverage, simplify the supply base, and improve commercial competitiveness.
• Engage suppliers in discussions on their target markets, product roadmaps, capacity strategies, and new product introductions to align IEWC’s sourcing strategy with emerging technologies and growth opportunities.

Cross-Functional Support

• Serve as the knowledge expert on assigned product categories, guiding the organization on product usage and specifications.
• Ensure the build and maintenance of should-cost libraries, rebate/price governance tools, and sourcing dashboards.
• Support the Commercial team in shaping price strategy and aligning sourcing execution.
• Analyze cost savings opportunities and implement changes through sourcing initiatives.
• Work with the Commercial and Materials Management teams in solving supply issues impacting markets or customers.
• Work with Product Development and the Commercial teams on New Product Introduction.

Market Intelligence/Continuous Improvement

• Leverage Qlik, Rubicon, SAP, and BI tools to deliver accurate, actionable reporting and sourcing analytics.
• Oversee the development of dashboards to monitor supplier performance, pricing trends, and sourcing KPIs.
• Provide insight-driven recommendations to leadership for cost reduction and margin improvement.
• Perform market and capacity analysis to identify risks, trends, and opportunities for supplier alignment.
• Effectively create and support process enhancement initiatives to maintain an environment of continuous improvement throughout the organization.
• Improve sourcing cycle time and win rate through data-driven process enhancements.
• Lead automation and analytics projects that scale sourcing performance.
• Ensure process efficiency and scalability without increasing headcount.
• Responsible for Vendor and Material Master Data inclusive of creation, archiving, continuous improvement and verification in Rubicon.