Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing
Rockwell Automation
ERP
Sourcing Specialist I
Surge Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Bloomington • Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $60,000 - $75,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
ERP
About the role
- Maintain the supplier relationship through excellent communication to ensure the supplier has alignment with ISC’s goals.
- Understand, and support the category specific strategy.
- Support Sourcing Specialist and Category Manager in long term cost control strategies to fit specific strategic supplier partnerships and commodities.
- Support lead time maintenance and reduction
- Manage purchase requisition queue and ensure purchase orders are placed with suppliers offering fair pricing, outstanding quality, and excellent service.
- Support multiple areas of the parts procurement process within TTC’s MRP/ERP system.
- Support the TTC’s Escalation process and requests from TTC’s manufacturing plants on supplier deliveries and escalations as required.
- Assist supplier transitions.
- Participate in supplier exit process standardization and continuous improvement projects.
- Support TTC’s Digital Transformation objectives.
- Assist with the gathering of requested information for Total Cost of Ownership analysis to support the Category Team.
- Support the deviation from specification (DFS) requests from suppliers.
- Assist supplier quality engineer when needed.
- Ensures engineering change notices (ECN’s) are completed timely.
- Ability to troubleshoot routine issues that arise in moderately complex situations.
- Support various intradepartmental process improvement projects including lean activities, productivity improvements, lead time maintenance and others as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Operations or Engineering with 0+ years of professional experience
- Sourcing experience or relevant education normally gained by completing degree in supply chain or operations related field preferred
- Self-motivated, ability to work under pressure, manage and prioritize multiple objectives concurrently, attend to details, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment
- Proven ability to analyze situations and accurately take effective actions.
- Basic skills in Microsoft Suite, MRP/ERP, Ariba and SAP
- Ability to maintain composure during rapidly changing situations, remaining focused on the relevant objective.
- Capacity to work independently as well as within a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
- Understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and market dynamics for assigned commodities.
Benefits
- affordable and top tier medical/dental/vision plan
- 401k
- 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community
- Hybrid work schedule
- Casual, corporate environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
sourcingcost control strategiesTotal Cost of Ownership analysistroubleshootingprocess improvementlean activitiesmanufacturing processescost driversmarket dynamics
Soft skills
excellent communicationself-motivatedability to work under pressuremanage multiple objectivesattention to detailmeet deadlinesanalyze situationsmaintain composureteam-orientedcollaborative
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain ManagementBachelor’s degree in OperationsBachelor’s degree in Engineering
