Global Sourcing

Global Sourcing Position Summary : Responsible for creating and executing global long-range strategy for a $25M complex portfolio spend that support Global supply chain objectives around growth, innovation, quality, cost, service, and operational excellence. This position requires technical knowledge in packaging, wood industry, and hardware and fasteners applications that enable optimized financial, quality, and strategic, product life cycle change results for Hussmann. Principal Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic, global multi-year plans in co-ordination with Sourcing Director by leveraging all sourcing enablers including should cost analysis, low-cost country sourcing, VA / VE (substitution, standardization, weight reduction etc), and make vs. buy to drive operational excellence in quality, productivity, innovation and working capital.
• Lead business intelligence for this area of spend including global market trends (technology, capacity, materials, etc.) competitive benchmarking, and other critical market metrics that will drive our organization to world class.
• Support product evolution and innovation by actively participating in cross-functional teams and by supporting the New Product Development Process (NPD). Manage the Change Flow activities (Teamcenter) and drive the completion of the tasks as required.
• Lead supplier relationships and develop long term agreements that accelerate our innovation deliverables and operational targets including material productivity, capacity, service, quality and working capital.
• Serve as liaison with plants, and other functions in cross-functional tasks. Collect the needs and manage the commodity needs in line with the business and technical roadmap strategies in collaboration with all functions.
• Proactively support resolution of issues escalated to Sourcing Manager’s level through efficient and effective expediting if required and with emphasis on improving supplier direct response to plants and solving the root cause with SQE Team.
• Investigate and support resolution and follow up on supply chain problems and quality issues. Conduct plants and supplier visits as required.
• Develop productivity pipeline projects to deliver DM productivity goals established in each managed commodity (compressors, valves, tanks).
• Provide spend forecast related to the inflationary trends of different commodities by understanding the market trends, supplier’s behaviors / investments and geopolitical conditions. Requirements :
• BS Degree in business or technical discipline or equivalent with a qualification in purchasing / negotiating (CPM).
• Willingness to travel up to 25% of time.
• Bilingual (English) for not US candidates.
• 6 years' experience in a corporate environment.
• 3 years' experience in sourcing of technical commodities is preferred or related technical engineering field, preferably mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, or electrical engineering.