Strategic Sourcing Project Manager
Minerals Technologies Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location: Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ERPJavaScriptOracle
About the role
- Develops Supply Chain strategy for capital equipment and MRO purchases in alignment with corporate goals, performance objectives, and customer expectations.
- Facilitates diverse needs across multiple business units to best leverage corporate scale in bids and negotiations.
- Selects and utilizes third party procurement services where appropriate.
- Leads corporate effort to seek out and source from the most economical suppliers/service providers, regardless of global region.
- Emphasis is placed on vetting new and innovative sources in coordination with internal technical and commercial stakeholders.
- Draft and negotiate contracts for equipment and services, with special focus given to clauses regarding performance payments/damages, warranties, and liability.
- Systematically enforces build and shipping schedules, including close coordination with 3PL service providers.
- Promote adherence to rigorous contractor environmental, health, and safety standards through contractual obligations and feedback loops involving on-site personnel.
- Partner cross-functionally to oversee equipment and contractor performance and to resolve shortfalls to keep Minerals Technologies and its customers whole, financially and otherwise.
- Special emphasis is given to root cause analysis and corrective action in cases of nonperformance.
- Participates integrally in developing budgets for capital projects.
- Analyze supply chain costs to identify underperforming areas and recommend improvements.
- Oversee special projects as needed – Fleet Management, Corporate Credit Card Selection, and Telecommunications.
- Actively participates in the implementation of continuous improvement processes, such as 5S, Kaizen, Daily Management Control, Standard Work and Problem Solving.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management, Business OR Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field with experience in capital oversight or an operational role.
- Minimum of five years’ experience in supply chain management.
- Familiarity with safety and procedural best practices in SCM.
- Experience with ERP system integrated environment.
- Supply chain experience in capital spend on contractors and/or equipment.
- Working with construction and engineering companies is a plus.
- Strong experience negotiating contract language.
- Experience with international projects and supplier/contractors highly desired
- Oracle E-Business Suite Applications desired.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft tools – Word, Excel, and Access.
- Experience in diverse functional roles.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams on short- or medium-term projects to achieve Company objectives.
- Expertise of the Procure to Pay process cycle in a manufacturing environment including knowledge of requisitions, purchase documents, quotations, receiving, supplier management, and item management business processes.
- Working knowledge of the accounting and manufacturing overlap processes.
- Experience supporting a national, multi-site manufacturing business.
- Knowledge of purchasing practices meeting SOX standards is desired.
- Must have the ability to work with and maintain confidential information.
- Good management, oral and written communication, interpersonal and general business skills required, along with strong mathematical, analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Travel: Occasional domestic and international travel will occur.