Sourcing Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals to perform the essential functions.

• Develop and drive strategic procurement strategies for assigned material categories.
• Manage sourcing strategies across demand, supply base, inventory, pricing, and risk.
• Conduct market intelligence and commodity analysis to identify pricing trends, capacity constraints, risks, and sourcing opportunities.
• Partner with Engineering to develop and maintain material demand forecasts across plants.
• Lead supplier negotiations and administer national supply agreements, blanket purchase orders, and scheduled releases.
• Identify and proactively mitigate supplier, commodity, capacity, financial, quality, and supply continuity risks.
• Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers based on quality, cost, delivery, service, and risk.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for sourcing solutions.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term supplier partnerships.
• Establish and monitor savings, cost avoidance, working capital, and supplier performance goals.
• Support product standardization and identify opportunities to reduce overall organizational costs.
• Ensure procurement strategies align with corporate goals, contractual requirements, regulatory requirements, and total cost of ownership.
• Partner cross-functionally with Procurement, Manufacturing, Engineering, Logistics, Accounts Payable, Field Assembly, and other internal teams.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 5–7 years of experience in strategic sourcing, including category strategy and planning.
• Category or commodity management experience preferred.
• Experience transitioning project-based purchasing to forecast-based or contract-based sourcing strongly preferred.
• Multi-plant or multi-site sourcing experience preferred.
• Experience within construction or manufacturing environments preferred.
• Experience sourcing commodities such as steel, concrete, glass, prestressing strand, reinforcing steel, embeds, trucking, equipment, logistics, or transportation is preferred.
• SQL and Power BI experience preferred.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong negotiation, influencing, and supplier relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage both volume-based and project-based purchasing strategies.
• Experience developing and administering Master Supply Agreements, blanket purchase orders, and scheduled releases.
• Strong understanding of long-lead materials, forecasting, inventory, and supply risk.
• Ability to read engineering specifications and mill certifications.
• Strong analytical, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve measurable savings, cost avoidance, and value engineering results.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with ERP, MRP, and MES platforms.
• Experience with vendor-managed inventory programs, Kanban, and purchase requisition systems preferred.