Advanced Sourcing Manager...

For over 140 years, our products have helped ensure the safe and reliable operations of key industries. With a passion for precision and partnership, Celeros Flow Technology continues its heritage of high performance and dependability, providing mission-critical, sustainable flow control solutions for customers around the globe.

Based in Mexico City or Monterrey, Mexico

Job Summary :

Celeros Flow Technology seeks an Advanced Sourcing Manager who can support tendering teams throughout the development of client commercial and technical proposals. The Advanced Sourcing Manager will manage relationships with key supply partners of equipment (i.e., motors, drives, lube oil systems, mechanical seals and systems, gearboxes, as well as other equipment) purchased in support of the Clyde Union Pumps product line.

The Advanced Sourcing Manager reports to the Director of ITO Sourcing and will be part of an advanced sourcing team supporting our globally positioned manufacturing facilities and sales offices.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

• At all times be a strong and vocal advocate and actor for maintaining a healthy and safe work environment for you and all those around you.
• Exhibit leadership values consistent with Celeros FT norms.
• Foster, develop and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with suppliers, Celeros FT leadership, peers, and sourcing team members.
• Actively support the global tendering teams to assure customer proposals include current, accurate, and cost-competitive costs and lead times for items to be purchased by Celeros FT.
• Work directly with key equipment suppliers to encourage strategic collaboration resulting in Celeros FT winning client orders.
• Represent the Celeros Supply Chain organization competently and professionally during all levels of internal deal reviews, sharing knowledge and clarifying the details of the equipment costs, lead times and risks within each bid.
• Passionately pursue the highest-quality equipment available while negotiating the best possible cost and lead times from the supply partners.
• Be a subject-matter expert on supplier capabilities and the focal point for sharing this knowledge with Celeros FT applications engineers, commercial operations leaders, and salespeople.
• Develop and maintain technical expertise regarding the products supplied to Celeros FT by establishing strong relationships with Celeros FT engineers and technical experts available to support the pursuit of world-class, highly engineered equipment solutions.
• Keep current with technological developments in the products purchased by Celeros FT and share this knowledge with the extended team.
• Actively collaborate with team members to enhance Celeros FT processes for the construction and submittal of proposal to clients, with a focus on speed and accuracy with full knowledge of incorporated risks.
• Following client awards to Celeros FT, assure a smooth and clean handoff of all pre-award supply plans to the execution arm of Celeros FT’s sourcing organization.
• Leverage strong commercial relationships with the key supply partners to occasionally support Celeros FT sourcing managers, buyers, and sourcing quality engineers to resolve the emerging issues with project execution.
• Be detail oriented always. Using existing tools to consistently track multiple supplier offers throughout the project bidding cycle, keeping current with changes in client technical specifications and coordinating continuous information flows out to the supply partners and back into the Celeros FT deal team.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Education and Experience