Director Global Sourcing Jobs

Sensience is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered sensing, control, and sealing component with our company headquarters moving to the North East Columbus Ohio area from Mansfield Ohio.

We deliver mission-critical protection and valuable data for a wide range of systems, including appliances, heating, air conditioning, refrigeration units, industrial process equipment, motor vehicles, and aerospace. We have over 4,000 employees worldwide across 10 manufacturing facilities dedicated to keeping people and their homes safe.

Sensience brings a track record of over 75 years of innovation, quality, specialized expertise, a highly collaborative approach, and a commitment to growth – working together with our customers as a valuable partner, helping to meet their critical objectives. We recently re-established ourselves as an independent company and looking for entrepreneurial minded candidates to help our company grow.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Director, Global Sourcing who will be responsible for the development and implementation of our short and long term global sourcing strategies for both direct and indirect spend in our high mix, high volume environment. Spend under management is approximately $200 million, with heavy emphasis on fabricated parts, machined parts, electrical components, mechanical components, and plastic resins, used in our manufacturing plants in Mexico, China, and Thailand. The incumbent will oversee relationships with key suppliers and ensure budgets, deadlines, delivery, and costs are met. They will work to deliver annual material cost reductions through sourcing activities and working with engineering on design related or material projects. In addition, the incumbent will support New Product Development and Production launch by working with Operations and Engineering NPD teams.

At Sensience we offer a flexible work schedule with the ability to work from home up to two days per week.

Position Responsibilities

• Direct the transition of material sourcing from one supplier to another with the plants and other stakeholders.
• Assure supply base is compliant with international trade and hazardous material handling requirements. Partner with Manager of Trade Compliance and Manager of Environmental Compliance.
• Lead the Commodity Managers in the development and implementation of commodity strategies ensuring budgets, deadlines, delivery, and costs are met.
• Coordinate Make vs. Buy decision process with Operations and Finance. Maintain a supply base to absorb outsourcing work.
• Other priorities as required
• Manage all global material containment actions to deliver the best cost regionalized material.
• Develop and implement global and regional sourcing strategies consistent with business priorities and objectives.
• Participate and provide input on the selection and de-selection of suppliers as recommended by Commodity Managers and Buyers.
• Develop supplier quality engineering function to ensure quality expectations for incoming material are met
• Effectively Manage a globally dispersed team
• Develop global processes and standards for work for best practice sourcing and management of suppliers

Position Requirements

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Experience in an industrial company with high volume, high mix preferred
• Fluent in English required. Spanish or Chinese Preferred
• Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, KANBANs, and other Lean Enterprise tools a plus
• Strong financial acumen
• Demonstrated leadership in strategic supply. Minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in a global Supply Chain environment; at least five years managing a team
• Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering required. MBA or Masters’ degree in logistics or supply chain strongly preferred
• Ability to travel at least 30% of the time

Sensience is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE): race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, national origin, or any status protected by applicable law.

This is not a position for which sponsorship will be provided. Individuals who need sponsorship for work authorization now or in the future are not eligible for hire.