Position Description:
The Senior Sourcing Manager is responsible for leading enterprise strategy, sourcing, and supplier governance across transportation networks, fleet operations, logistics services, and field-based labor. This role drives cost optimization, service reliability, and operational scalability while ensuring alignment with business demand, service levels, and financial objectives.
Serving as a strategic partner to Supply Chain, Operations, and Finance leadership, this individual translates network requirements and cost-to-serve analytics into executable sourcing and operational strategies. The role owns key supplier relationships, leads cross-functional initiatives, and ensures value realization from sourcing through implementation and ongoing performance management.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and execute multi-year sourcing and operations strategies across transportation, 3PL/logistics, fleet, and labor services.
- Optimize network design, routing, and cost-to-serve models to enhance efficiency and service performance.
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives, including competitive bids, contract renewals, and supplier consolidation.
- Negotiate complex service agreements covering transportation rates, fleet operations, and labor contracts.
- Ensure competitive pricing, scalable capacity models, and performance-based commercial structures.
- Establish strong contractual frameworks addressing service levels, safety, compliance, and scalability
- Own cost modeling and analytics across transportation, fleet, and labor to drive data-informed decisions.
- Develop business cases for network optimization, outsourcing strategies, and labor models.
- Deliver measurable cost savings, cost avoidance, and operational improvements.
- Implement and lead supplier performance management programs, including KPIs, SLAs, and QBRs.
- Monitor supplier performance, capacity, and financial risk to ensure continuity and reliability.
- Partner cross-functionally and advise senior leadership with insights on cost trends, service performance, and market dynamics while driving continuous improvement and innovation.
Competencies
- Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Adaptive Mindset - Adapts existing tools and techniques to existing situation~Adapts to changing goals / objectives~Entrepreneurial spirit~Focuses on simplicity when addressing the customer
- Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Business Insights - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
- Commercial Acumen - Ability and skill to use understanding of the ATD market and business environment and objectives in developing solutions.
- Costing and Budgeting - Awareness of costing, budgeting and finance concepts and the ability and skill to apply to related processes and procedures.
- Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
- Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc)
- Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
- Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
- Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
- Negotiation - The ability to obtain consensus between two or more parties who may have different interests, for the benefit of the organization. Negotiation may be with internal or external parties.
- Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- Planning & Organizing - Ability to plan, organize, prioritize and oversee activities to efficiently meet objectives.
- Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
- Policy & Regulation - The ability and skill to interpret and apply knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise.
- Project Management - The ability and skill to plan and manage small project work assignments within desired cost, time and quality parameters including project planning, change, schedule, requirements, scope, etc.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- 8 years of related experience preferred
Physical Demands/Working Conditions
Physical Demands Category: Office
Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements:
• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: As required by the position.
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