Strategic Sourcing Manager

Job Responsibilities

• Lead global welding equipment industry procurement, including Direct (Raw materials, components, finish good products) and Indirect (MRO, services, capital investment) spend commodities.
• Maximize working capital results and minimize risk impact in a global scale.
• Sources and negotiates the most competitive cost on commodities and uses SIOP to maintain high fill rates.
• Manages logistics regarding customs compliance and import/export regulations.
• Oversees and leads a Global Sourcing Council with representatives from key stakeholder functions, contributing to the creation, ratification, and proliferation of the strategic sourcing plan for the spend category managed.
• Analyzes data utilizing BW (Business Work) and other supply chain tools.
• Manages a team of sourcing specialists to help define and proliferate global sourcing strategies by setting up department global goals to support achieving corporate goals, defining and proliferating global sourcing strategies, delegating and monitoring critical tasks and objectives, maintaining clear consistent communication in a daily basis, recognizing good work and supporting effectively on any weaknesses or risk detected in the process.
• Defines and implements a formal strategic sourcing plan.
• Pairs collaboratively with all parts of the business, as well as the global procurement network, and implements procurement strategies and policies, applying a structured approach. This involves collaboration with global teams from R&D, Quality, Planning, Purchasing, Finance, Compliance on COE (Center Of Excellence) through monthly meetings to ensure effective alignment and support on global strategies achievement.
• Supports tactical execution from the selected supply chain and manages supplier performance and the organization's profitability through completion of production.
• Manages critical supplier relationships and performance evaluations.
• Defines and achieves objectives by demonstrating a clear understanding of the business structure, good communications skills, a proactive, entrepreneurial mindset, and the ability to multitask and coordinate with various functions. This involves daily, weekly, monthly meetings with cross-functional teams.
• Ensures an optimized supply of material with the percentage of time spent on each activity.
• Leads the cross-functional Global Sourcing Council by creating global procurement strategies and plans to be executed by the tactical purchasing teams that optimize material cost and ensure supply base meets the cost, delivery and quality requirements.
• Manages SAP system and updates data in MRP including lead times, lot sizes, safety stocks, forecasts, reorder points, purchasing info records, source lists.
• Identifies supply chain risks and monitors the global market forces related to supply chain to avoid potential issues/risks.
• Leads and creates supplier contract agreements, performs risk analysis, and prepares for supplier negotiations.
• Manages eAuctions and RFPs through SAP (Ariba) to execute global spend negotiations and contracts to leverage and obtain the best commercial terms.
• Documents, communicates, and implements the supply chain strategy to executive management.
• Leads the non-assigned direct materials in the local manufacturing.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, or closely related including Materials Science and/or Metallurgical Engineering.
• 2 years of experience as Corporate Senior Buyer or related.
• 2 years of experience with: leading global welding equipment industry procurement, including Direct (Raw materials, components, finish good products) and Indirect (MRO, services, capital investment) spend commodities;
• 2 years of experience with maximizing working capital results and minimizing risk impact in a global scale;
• 2 years of experience with sourcing and negotiating the most competitive cost on commodities and using SIOP to maintain high fill rates;
• 2 years of experience with managing logistics regarding customs compliance and import and export regulations;
• 2 years of experience with managing SAP system and updating data in MRP including lead times, lot sizes, safety stocks, forecasts, reorder points, purchasing info records, source lists;
• 2 years of experience with managing eAuctions and RFPs through SAP (Ariba) to execute global spend negotiations and contracts to leverage and obtain the best commercial terms;
• 2 years of experience with managing critical supplier relationships and performance evaluations;
• 2 years of experience with analyzing data utilizing BW (Business Work) and other supply chain tools.

Lincoln Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to promoting equal employment opportunity for applicants, without regard to their race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to, lactation), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, and any other category protected by federal, state, or local law.