Role Overview:This role involves leading strategic sourcing initiatives for chemical commodities, managing supplier relationships, and overseeing the end-to-end RFQ process. The manager will serve as the primary onsite interface between stakeholders, suppliers, and the offshore sourcing team, focusing on direct chemical material procurement and supplier development.
Key Responsibilities:- Serve as the primary onsite interface between customer stakeholders, suppliers, and the offshore sourcing team.
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives for Chemical commodities and support supplier identification across the USA, Mexico, China, and Europe.
- Manage end-to-end RFQ execution, including drawing review, package preparation, supplier communication, quotation collection, commercial comparison, and sourcing recommendations.
- Build and maintain supplier relationships, conduct capability assessments, performance reviews, supplier development, consolidation, and readiness activities.
- Collaborate with Manufacturing, Product Owners, Engineering, Quality, Strategic Sourcing, and Finance to align priorities, timelines, risks, and issue resolution.
- Track project milestones, service-level commitments, supplier readiness, industrialization, savings, and productivity goals.
- Provide daily updates, weekly executive status reports, sourcing dashboards, supplier scorecards, and category strategy updates.
- Own escalation management, governance reviews, and risk mitigation for supplier delays, sourcing risks, and critical project issues.
Required Skills:- Experience in strategic sourcing of direct chemical material.
- Strong negotiation skills, costing, procurement, supplier development, or category management.
- Strong sourcing and commercial knowledge across Chemicals and Chemical Products.
- Hands-on experience managing RFQs, from requirement gathering through supplier response and sourcing recommendation.
- Proficiency in supplier capability assessment.
- Experience with supplier performance reviews, qualification, consolidation, development, and alternate sourcing.
- Ability to review drawings, prepare RFQ packages, analyze quotations, and create techno-commercial comparisons.
- Experience working with global suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders across North America, Mexico, China, and Europe.
- Working knowledge of sourcing dashboards, supplier scorecards, industrialization tracking, and Jaggaer or comparable sourcing platforms.
Qualifications:- 8 to 18 years of experience in strategic sourcing.
