Global Sourcing Manager
Hillenbrand
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Kansas City • Kansas • Montana • United States
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About the role
- Develop and execute sourcing strategies for complex projects, spare parts, and new supplier onboarding.
- Lead end-to-end Source-to-Contract (S2C) processes including supplier qualification, bidding, negotiations, and contracting.
- Support make/buy decisions with engineering teams on design-for-cost and tariff mitigation initiatives.
- Improve S2C workflows for efficiency and standardization.
- Manage global supplier relationships, ensuring regional alignment and performance.
- Collaborate with suppliers for BOM validation, cost reduction, and supplier development activities.
- Drive supplier performance improvement initiatives.
- Achieve productivity and margin improvements through strategic bundling, volume leverage, and standardized SKUs.
- Transition parts to repeatable purchases using frame agreements and reference pricing.
- Provide accurate project quotes, ensuring cost, quality, and delivery targets are met.
- Develop and implement global tariff mitigation strategies.
- Analyze tariff exposure by product, component, and trade lane.
- Partner with Trade Compliance for classification accuracy and regulatory adherence.
- Monitor trade policy changes and assess their financial impact.
- Maintain detailed, costed BOMs to identify tariff drivers and calculate landed costs.
- Support sourcing and engineering in design-for-cost activities that mitigate tariffs.
- Build dashboards to visualize tariff exposure, savings, and risks.
- Prepare executive reports on impact analysis, mitigation progress, and risk management.
- Standardize processes for tariff analysis, BOM costing, and trade compliance.
- Lead initiatives to enhance cost transparency, process efficiency, and compliance.
- Support audits and internal controls related to tariffs and procurement costs.
- Share tariff and cost insights with Category Managers and other stakeholders.
- Engage suppliers in validating BOM data and finding cost reduction opportunities.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, and Operations for aligned decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a comparable field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in global sourcing, category management, or cost engineering.
- Expertise in BOM analysis, landed cost modeling, and tariff mitigation.
- Familiarity with HTS classification, duties, country-of-origin rules, and trade policies.
- Proven success in process harmonization and establishing scalable global standards.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across regions and cultures.
- Ability to exercise judgment, solve problems, and lead change initiatives.
- Technical understanding of products, market dynamics, and supply chain.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
sourcing strategiesSource-to-Contract (S2C)supplier qualificationBOM analysislanded cost modelingtariff mitigationcost reductionprocess harmonizationcost transparencytrade compliance
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunication skillsproblem-solvingjudgmentleadershipcollaborationstrategic thinkinganalytical skillsinitiativeadaptability