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Strategic Sourcing Manager

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COMPANYHadrian
BASE SALARY$105k – $190k+ Equity

The Role

The Strategic Sourcing Manager is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies for all sites in areas such as raw material, equipment, consumables, COTS hardware, and outside processing; ensuring optimal cost, quality, and delivery performance. This role works closely with pre-sales engineering, quality, and operations teams on early engagement to; align supplier capabilities with program requirements, manage supplier relationships, and drive best in class cost structures.

What You'll Do

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Lead sourcing efforts for assigned commodities, including supplier identification, selection, and onboarding.
  • Develop and execute creative commodity strategies and commercial deals to achieve best in class performance in cost, supply and quality.
  • Effectively engage with suppliers to negotiate optimal terms for master supply agreements and statements of work.
  • Maintain strong relationships with supplier executive teams and own the escalation path.
  • Monitor global supplier performance using defined metrics and organize supplier business reviews.
  • Collaborate with pre-sales engineering teams on program early engagement to ensure technical requirements are met, appropriate capability exists within the supply base and supplier selection aligns with commodity strategy.
  • Ensure accurate purchasing throughout the global ERP system.
  • Monitor and manage supply chain risk including identifying and addressing potential failure points.
  • Collaborate with supplier development team to create supplier capability and technology roadmaps and ensure supplier executive backing.
  • Develop supply chain strategy for any new sites assessing capabilities to be local versus global.
  • Perform make versus buy analysis and recommend areas to invest in internal capability.
  • Analyze long term demand to develop future supply chain capacity and capability plans.
  • Travel domestically and internationally (up to 25%) to meet with suppliers.

What We’re Looking For

  • Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering or related