Sourcing Manager

Position Summary

This position provides strategic leadership for sourcing and supplier development functions, ensuring a resilient, cost-effective, and high-performing supply network. The Sourcing Manager defines and executes spend and category strategies aligned with Steffes’ corporate growth and margin objectives, while driving cost improvement, risk mitigation, and process standardization across all sites.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute corporate sourcing and supplier strategies aligned with Steffes’ corporate growth, margin, and operational objectives
• Own the corporate spend plan, including spend analysis, cost modeling, and cost improvement initiatives to drive productivity and working capital performance
• Direct contract negotiations and supplier agreements to secure optimal pricing, terms, service levels, and risk protections
• Maintain market awareness of supply and demand dynamics, commodity price trends, geopolitical and macroeconomic factors, logistics market conditions, industry trends and technology shifts, regulatory and compliance changes, industry benchmarking, and other factors impacting availability, quality, pricing, and risk
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks across the supply network, including financial, geopolitical, capacity, quality, and continuity risks
• Standardize, train, and continuously improve sourcing processes, governance, and best practices across all sites to drive consistency and scale
• Establish and monitor sourcing KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards to measure supplier performance, cost savings, compliance, and overall sourcing health
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with operations, engineering, quality, finance, and logistics to align sourcing strategies with business requirements and customer commitments
• Build, develop, and retain high-performing sourcing teams, fostering continuous improvement and innovation while modeling strong leadership, accountability, and ethical business practices
• Act as subject matter expert in ERP/SRM implementation and execution for sourcing and supplier management processes and practices
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating collaboratively with customers, suppliers, co-workers, and management
• Helps company meet its Strategic, Quality and Safety objectives

Core Expectations

• Customer Service: Demonstrate excellent customer service and display a positive attitude and behavior consistent with the Steffes Code of Conduct and Core Values
• EHS: Perform work in compliance with EHS training and identified procedures/standard work. Report any EHS incident or concern to your supervisor immediately. Cooperate and contribute to the overall success of the EHS program
• Quality: Participate in job-specific training. Complete work as indicated by standard work, processes, and/or procedures. If your work can’t be completed as required, notify your supervisor immediately for guidance
• Conduct: Demonstrate and support the Steffes Code of Conduct. Policies and Procedures - Demonstrate and support Steffes Policies and Procedures by: Using tact, sound judgement, and maintaining a professional attitude in communication and relationships with others. Striving to deliver the best quality in daily work. Promoting a positive image of Steffes and its products. Being timely and punctual in attendance and following all policies and procedures