Sourcing Manager

The Sourcing Manager plays a key role in maintaining the company’s supply chain by ensuring that the organization always has access to the resources it needs to deliver. A Sourcing Manager has the responsibility for handling a company’s end-to-end sourcing operations for a category or categories by carrying out research, creating and executing strategy, defining quality and quantity metrics, and choosing suppliers that meet these criteria.

Job Description:

• Planning and managing a company’s overall sourcing strategy.
• Researching to understand a company’s operational needs and requirements.
• Building relationships with vendors and key suppliers.
• Negotiating pricing and controlling costs.
• Executing analyses and making suggestions for improvement in sourcing strategy.
• Developing an annual budget based on sourcing needs.
• Writing sourcing documentation.
• Building and leveraging internal business partner relationships to create value-focused strategies that align with goals.
• Reviewing contracts.
• Proactively, seeking business optimization and cost savings or new capability and developing data-driven business cases to support their initiatives.
• Staying current on industry and market trends and best practices.