Sourcing Manager

**Job Summary**:
The Sourcing Manager II leads the regional Sourcing effort related to driving competitive advantage and cost savings. Ensures the management of leveraged agreements, key supplier and customer relationships, and the effective execution of commodity planning and management with the assigned Region. Successfully implements, executes, and complies with the regional procurement and commodity/spend category strategies, contracts, processes, and policies. Leads the regional Sourcing team to focus on performing these functions for all identified Regional leverage opportunities.

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**:

- **Lead, manage, and develop subregion Sourcing teams of Buyers. **Ensure compliance to Sourcing policies
- **Become an extended part of Sourcing Director’s staff** - attend staff meetings and other updates, understand subregion issues and opportunities, become a trusted advisor and problem solver. Develop strong working relationships with SD staff.
- **Partner **with GE Vernova Sourcing teams to leverage different global suppliers
- **Implement and drive Daily Management tools and Leader Standard Work**
- **Drive analytics skills development **in the current team capability. Create and utilize RFQ templates and other standard documents/templates to support commodity strategy. Distribute to subregion teams, PPM’s, and Buyers
- **Lead **safety, quality, delivery, cost, and cash metrics for subregion and ensure team is delivering to targets
- **Develop and implement regional commodity strategies for assigned commodities**. Distribute to other subregion teams and ensure strategies are communicated to the Events team. Ensure other Sourcing Manager strategies are implemented in your subregion, i.e. primary and secondary supplier by state/region
- **Manage **supplier relationships in assigned commodities. Lead/join escalation discussions as necessary
- **Lead **regional Sourcing inputs to 3M, ORR, and POR reviews. Ensure appropriate sourcing strategies are being utilized, SOW’s received, new supplier needs identified, all PR’s entered, suppliers onboarded, final scopes provided to suppliers, understand cost overruns, gather feedback on supplier safety, quality, and performance, record lessons learned, and adjust sourcing strategy as needed
- **Lead **cross functional Sourcing team in lean workouts to improve Sourcing capabilities in region/sub-region. Drive continuous improvement in Sourcing processes
- **Manage **regional sourcing team response to subregion specific market conditions and ensure strategies are developed to address. Partner with other Sourcing Managers to incorporate into overall regional commodity strategy
- **Lead** outage forecasting activities for assigned commodities and/or subregions
- Implement long-term agreements with strategic suppliers (MSA’s, SOW’s, etc.) utilizing FieldCore templates. Ensure compliance to negotiated agreements. Suggest improvements to standard contract language
- Deliver cash though supplier payment term improvement (DTP) for assigned commodities. Understand MUFG program and utilize as appropriate
- Drive cost out initiatives and ensure the team is meeting cost targets. Create a sustainable backlog of cost out projects. Ensure Reduce is updated
- Support NCR and claims processes as needed. Ensure NCR data is utilized in commodity strategies and supplier selection
- Ensure all suppliers utilized in subregion are ComplyWorks and Technically qualified. Manage PPM’s and Buyers to ensure compliance. Provide guidance to Supplier Quality and EHS as needed
- Drive supplier development initiatives and lead projects in collaboration with other functions (i.e. Productivity, Value Stream, etc.)
- Travel required
- May be assigned other duties to help proactively drive our FieldCore vision and align with our organization’s core values.

**Required Qualifications & Experience**:

- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Business management or equivalent with Sourcing/Supply Chain work experience.
- 8+ years sourcing and supply purchasing experience at a professional level, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3+ years managing and developing employees
- Strong communication and negotiation skills when engaging with internal and external cross functional teams
- Good understanding of international or regional Business & Sourcing
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Business Intelligence tools, PowerPoint

**Desired Characteristics**:

- Previous staff management and global experience is preferred
- Solid analytical skills and strong results-oriented aptitude
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint)
- Membership in ISM (NAPM), with professional certification as a CPM preferred
- Knowledge of ecommerce, supply chain management, and ERP system technology as they evolve
- Ability to focus on satisfying internal customer requirements and obtaining and responding to internal customer feedback
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