Sourcing Specialist

Responsibilities

• Drive supply chain cost effectiveness and performance improvement with suppliers, while minimizing supplier risks for assigned categories.
• Proactively identify leverage opportunities, drive supplier actions that deliver value to diverse stakeholders.
• Develop key strategic relationships with suppliers to support global sourcing, manufacturing, and new product development strategies.
• Collaborate with global strategic sourcing, manufacturing, quality, operational procurement, and business unit leadership in strategy formulation, supplier selection, and supplier management.
• Utilize tools and processes to gather cross-functional alignment from key stakeholders, and lead continuous improvement initiatives.
• Monitor key market movements, proactively identify potential challenges or risks, and resolve issues with suppliers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, or related technical field.
• Three (3) to five (5) years’ experience in Purchasing / Sourcing, or other business experience requiring strong negotiating skills.
• Experience in all aspects of sourcing including contract negotiations, commodity based materials management, project management, and commercial analysis.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications like Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and project management tools.

Qualifications

• Preferred: ISM or ASCM certification.
• Preferred: MBA.

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent communication, problem solving, project management, organizational and negotiation skills.
• Driven and enthusiastic about establishing new approaches to reduce Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
• Responds with a sense of urgency to meeting and supporting the needs of each and every customer, providing innovative and comprehensive solutions.
• Effectively negotiates, influences, and collaborates with others.
• Sets up constructive and effective relationships cross-functionally; effectively manages through conflict while maintaining relationships.
• Manages change, ambiguity, and changing priorities, staying focused on achieving the key priorities for the business.
• Manages projects, assessing time, resources, investment, etc., ensuring deadlines and objectives are achieved.
• Stays current on the industry, the “customer,” market, and other external factors impacting the role and/or business and benchmarks for improvement of processes and applications.

Benefits

Market Competitive Pay.
Extensive Paid Time Off (PTO) and 9 added Holidays.
Excellent Healthcare, Dental and vision benefits.
Long/Short Term Disability coverage.
401(k) with a company match.
Maternity & Paternity Leave.
Additional add-on benefits/discounts for programs such as Pet Insurance.
Tuition Reimbursement and continued educations programs.
Comprehensive and competitive benefits portfolio.