Sourcing Lead
Stryker
Global Brakes Category Manager
Ford Motor Company
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Dearborn • Missouri • 🇺🇸 United States
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SeniorLead
About the role
- Category Management team members interface with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that Category Strategies represent the full potential value for the company, maintain key supplier relationships, and provide guidance to Category Execution teams managing global, regional, and local sourcing events.
- Your roll will develop, support, and implement category strategies for Brake commodities to optimize cost, quality, resilience and supplier performance.
- Conduct supplier evaluations and develop strategies to secure competitive pricing, quality, delivery, and mitigate risk.
- Manage supplier relationships to ensure timely delivery of products and resolve any issues that may arise.
- Support the Brake Team in training and development, data organization, process improvements, and benchmarking initiatives.
- Accountable to work closely with others to meet deadlines with excellence; drive others to deliver required materials on time and with quality.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, engineering, or a related field.
- 7+ years of experience in procurement and sourcing, preferably within Underbody and Brake commodities.
- Direct or indirect experience in Brake commodities
- Deep category management process expertise
- Ability to influence senior executives to drive decision-making
- Persuasive and convincing communication skills (e.g., proposals, reports, plans) to secure commitment from business leaders
- Ability to develop and successfully execute negotiations strategy
- High degree of trust and maintain strong relationships with Skill Team / regional leadership
- Strong data & analytics understanding (e.g., complex modeling, presentation storyboarding skills, , data analytics)
- Ability to interpret organization needs and commercial strategies as input into global Category Strategies
- Knowledge of sourcing best practices and industry trends.
Benefits
- Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
- Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more
- Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases
- Tuition assistance
- Established and active employee resource groups
- Paid time off for individual and team community service
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
procurementsourcingcategory managementsupplier evaluationnegotiation strategydata analyticscomplex modelingpresentation storyboardingcost optimizationquality management
Soft skills
influencingpersuasive communicationrelationship managementteam collaborationdeadline managementprocess improvementtraining and developmentproblem-solvingdecision-makingcommitment securing
Certifications
Bachelor's degree