Description
Lead strategic sourcing and procurement across the supply chain to secure materials and services at the best total cost while ensuring supply continuity, quality, compliance, and sustainability. Direct purchasing operations, contracts, supplier relationships, and cost forecasting, partnering with planning, engineering, finance, and quality to align demand, inventory, and new product needs.
- • Consolidate demand and buys to achieve economies of scale and optimize lead times and Incoterms.
- • Map source-to-pay and supply network models to facilitate stakeholder discussions and decisions.
- • Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, and SLAs with suppliers and service providers.
- • Meet with suppliers to review scorecards, provide feedback, and align on forecasts or changes.
- • Document procure-to-pay processes, including workflows, cycle times, roles, and system flows.
- • Develop and implement supplier evaluation, selection, and onboarding procedures.
- • Design and implement purchasing and replenishment strategies for direct and indirect materials.
- • Collaborate with planners to forecast demand and create supply plans that ensure material availability.
- • Define and maintain procurement KPIs (cost, OTD, quality, PPV, risk, compliance).
- • Analyze inventory, lead times, and order policies to increase turns, reduce waste, and improve service.
- • Analyze supplier performance and procurement program effectiveness to drive corrective actions.
- • Coordinate engineering changes, product extensions, and NPI sourcing for timely material readiness.
- • Establish procedures for procurement collaboration with sales, engineering, finance, production, and QA.
- • Develop sourcing strategies that support growth, resilience, and cost reduction goals.
- • Conduct or oversee LCAs and supplier sustainability assessments to gauge environmental impacts.
- • Integrate environmental, social, and governance criteria into sourcing policies and awards.
- • Implement supplier return, take-back, or reverse logistics programs for repair, reuse, or disposal.
- • Evaluate and deploy eSourcing, contract management, and supplier risk/visibility technologies.
- • Identify material substitution, reuse, and recycling opportunities to reduce cost and waste.
- • Assess supplier carbon footprints and environmental records during qualification and reviews.
- • Source biodegradable, non-toxic, or otherwise environmentally preferable materials when feasible.
- • Update procurement practices to align with changing environmental and regulatory requirements.
- • Determine procurement team structure, tools, and staffing levels to meet service and cost targets.
- • Lead strategic and tactical purchasing and MRP execution in partnership with inventory and receiving.
- • Implement process improvements in sourcing and P2P to increase efficiency, control, and compliance.
- • Monitor supplier quality and delivery performance and drive supplier development where needed.
- • Monitor demand forecasts and quotas to anticipate impacts on sourcing and supply risk.
- • Identify, qualify, and develop new suppliers in collaboration with engineering and quality.
- • Forecast material costs, build should-cost models, and maintain standard cost lists.
- • Audit and appraise supplier manufacturing capabilities through site visits and assessments.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
