Sourcing Manager
- Lawrence, Michigan
- Permanent (Full Time)
- Open
- manderson
Job Description
Summary
The role of the Sourcing Manager is to handle the company’s end-to-end sourcing operations. Appraise and improve our sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.
The goal is to ensure that our products are made of flawless materials with well-functioning equipment. That way our customers will enjoy high-quality merchandise so that we can achieve long-term success.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The role of the Sourcing Manager is to handle the company’s end-to-end sourcing operations. Appraise and improve our sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities.
The goal is to ensure that our products are made of flawless materials with well-functioning equipment. That way our customers will enjoy high-quality merchandise so that we can achieve long-term success.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Manage the company’s supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending
- Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies
- Analyze and calculate costs of procurement and suggest methods to decrease expenditure
- Invent negotiation strategies and secure profitable deals
- Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency
- Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes
- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers
- Perform cost and scenario analysis, and benchmarking
- Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques
- Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers
- Determine quantity and timing of deliveries
- Train, mentor and monitor performance of the Purchasing Specialists
- Proven work experience as a Sourcing Manager or Procurement Manager
- Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software
- Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgement
- Strong project management and leadership skills
- Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships
- Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data
- Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions
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