Sourcing Lead Jobs

We are seeking a Sourcing Lead on behalf of a large, privately-held manufacturing firm with operations in the Dallas, TX area. This role is seated in Dallas, TX and reports to the Director of Purchasing who is seated in Dallas, TX. Steel and resin buying experience required.

Responsibilities:

• Lead procurement activities across strategic categories resulting in procurement decisions delivering the highest quality, reliability, and value to meet Company objectives
• Conduct business dealings with the highest level of integrity and regard for legal and environmental issues
• Measure and track supply performance within spend category
• Utilize formal benchmarking methods to determine best in class processes and drive improvement
• Coordinate aggregation of all sites demand for supplier forecasting and leveraging for cost reduction
• Conducts negotiation within approved negotiation parameters and authority
• Performs market and cost analysis
• Works on issues of broad scope and complexity where analysis of situation or data is complicated by limited data to support decisions or unique circumstances for which methods are not established
• Develops and executes negotiation plan
• Implement inventory optimization programs to optimize inventory turns, inventory investment and service level performance
• Proactively manage supplier base ensuring supply with no adverse impact on factory ramp plans
• Apply appropriate competitive cost benchmarks, financial analysis and risk management techniques to solve issues
• Develop and implement a global sourcing with specific negotiation strategies to achieve cost, supply assurance and risk mitigation objectives
• Effectively communicate with appropriate management levels both internally and externally
• Act as global supply management leader for assigned categories
• Develop and implement cost-reduction programs through the use of Cost- of-Ownership (COO) analysis, cost build-up analysis and supplier competition
• Execute projects consistent with achieving overall supply management organizational goals
• Select, evaluate, and develop category plan objectives in areas of quality, cost, delivery, flexibility, and service
• Apply root cause analysis and derive corrective actions and assess adequacy of the analyses and plans proposed by suppliers managed
• Lead commercial negotiations with managed supply partners