Sourcing Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with departmental leaders to implement a global sourcing strategy for the categories/commodities based on industry and market trends and conditions and continue to assess in the medium/long term (3-5 years) horizon.
• Support the Global Sourcing team in fulfilling the category management strategy, including determining appropriate suppliers, supporting contract negotiations, handling escalations from the Buyers, and other activities to deliver best-in-class service to stakeholders by reducing the overall cost, improving quality, and improving supplier on-time delivery.
• Develop and execute strategies for acquiring electronics components, managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts and ensuring supply continuity.
• Ensure new product development projects are delivered on-cost, on-time, and without cost of failure driven by supply-side issues.
• Use sourcing tools and handle appropriate RFI, RFP, RFQ to participate in the formal evaluation process to support supplier selection decisions jointly made with the Sourcing Manager.
• Control the critical review file and act as an interface between S&C planning and suppliers in executing priorities to eliminate timely customer escalations.
• Participate in idea-generation activities within the team. Review implementation progress of new ideas to ensure cost-saving targets are delivered within deadlines.
• Participate in audits with the Quality Assurance team and external auditors, ultimately ensuring consistent quality in the supplier base.
• Stay up to date with and communicate suppliers’ capacity, capabilities, products, and technologies, ensuring that key decision-makers are informed when selecting suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5 years of demonstrated experience working in a supplier management role in the manufacturing industry.
• Sound understanding of manufacturing processes for industrial products and components, including electronics components, both passive and active.
• Ability to lead project teams and provide direction to cross-functional project groups.
• Great critical thinking, organizational, planning and project management skills, coordinating internal and external resources, creative problem-solving when obstacles arise, and juggling a heavy volume of diverse operational/tactical projects to deadlines and budgets.
• Great interpersonal skills to establish meaningful relationships built on mutual trust and respect, navigate and resolve conflict, moderate behaviors and foster collaborative working relationships amongst a diverse audience.
• Sound communication skills, (written, verbal, listening and presentation) able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels from leadership to support staff.
• Ability to influence leaders toward making sound supply management decisions.
• Sound business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to use and analyze data to drive informed decisions, problem-solve difficult issues and leverage data and learnings to drive continuous improvement.
• Financial acumen and numerical ability to manage budgetary resources to maximum effectiveness.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel internationally.