Sourcing Manager

As an employee-owner at IEWC, you’ll be a valued team member contributing to something bigger while gaining skills that set your career up for hypergrowth.

About the role

The Infrastructure Sourcing Manager provides leadership to the people, processes, and systems supporting North American sourcing for IEWC’s Infrastructure Division. This position ensures quality products and services are secured at the best total value to support customer and manufacturing supply needs. The role partners with suppliers to deliver cost savings, supply assurance, and innovation while developing value-added partnerships. The Infrastructure Sourcing Manager maintains close collaboration with Materials Management, Commercial, Finance, and Operations teams to align sourcing strategies with business objectives.

This role reports directly to the Global Sourcing Director and provides direct supervision to the North American Infrastructure Sourcing team. It works collaboratively with Supply Chain and Infrastructure Commercial Leadership, as well as leaders across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Continually monitor and assess trends affecting IEWC’s Infrastructure sourcing strategies and benchmark against industry leaders.
• Provide thought leadership in process improvement, best practices, tools, and technology to identify new business opportunities.
• Champion process excellence, continuous improvement, and best practices across the Sourcing organization.
• Create a North American Infrastructure sourcing strategic plan that supports market vertical business plans.
• Develop policies and processes to ensure consistent practices across the Infrastructure division.
• Collaborate with all Divisions and Functions to ensure business success.
• Drive a customer-focused culture by partnering with sales, improving response times, and offering strategic alternatives with a “win” mentality.
• Serve as a role model for the Company’s Values and Core Leadership Competencies.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and guidance to the North American Infrastructure Sourcing team to achieve objectives and improve performance.
• Empower team members by delegating tasks appropriately.
• Communicate a clear vision and achieve shared understanding of operational activities in a matrix structure.
• Foster high-performance teamwork and balance empowerment with appropriate controls.
• Prioritize activities and resource allocation, balancing short-term and long-term business interests.
• Lead or participate in cross-functional teams to improve processes, methods, productivity, and quality while reducing costs.
• Ensure team members understand governance and the New Product Introduction Process.
• Champion effective partnerships with Sales to balance customer, supplier, and IEWC needs.
• Confirm solid working knowledge of divisional and corporate roles and responsibilities.
• Foster and develop supplier relationships to ensure preferred status with key Infrastructure suppliers.
• Oversee 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 to increase volume leverage and improve competitiveness.
• Engage suppliers in discussions on target markets, product roadmaps, capacity strategies, and new product introductions.
• 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 Commercial and Materials Management teams to resolve supply issues impacting markets or customers.
• Collaborate with Product Development and Commercial teams on New Product Introduction.
• Leverage Qlik, Rubicon, SAP, and BI tools to deliver accurate, actionable reporting and sourcing analytics.
• Oversee development of dashboards to monitor supplier performance, pricing trends, and sourcing KPIs.
• Provide insight-driven recommendations for cost reduction and margin improvement.
• Perform market and capacity analysis to identify risks, trends, and opportunities for supplier alignment.
• Support process enhancement initiatives to maintain continuous improvement.
• 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.
• Manage Vendor and Material Master Data, including creation, archiving, continuous improvement, and verification in Rubicon.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of progressively responsible related experience; or a combination of education and experience.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to obtain a valid passport.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of technical and business information and deal with abstract and concrete variables.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (Pivot Tables and formula calculations), PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience with AI interfaces (Claude, ChatGPT) and writing prompts to assist in continuous improvement and task expediting.
• SAP experience preferred.

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, reach above shoulders, stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
• Occasionally required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Occasionally exposed to a Distribution Center or manufacturing environment, outside weather conditions, fumes, airborne particles, and moderate to high noise levels.
• Occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.
• Occasionally required to perform work-related travel.