Strategic Sourcing Manager – Power Equipment, Electronics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement enterprise category strategies for essential electrical and electronic components that support MCG product platforms.

• Convert enterprise demand into sourcing, capacity, channel, alternate-source, and supply-continuity strategies.

• Manage over $100 million in direct material expenditures as MCG’s commercial leader and subject-matter expert for designated categories.

• Maintain a comprehensive view of demand and market trends, including forecasts, lead times, product lifecycles, technology shifts, supplier capacity, pricing, and geopolitical risks.

• Create category roadmaps that outline preferred suppliers, qualified alternatives, sourcing gaps, lifecycle hazards, milestones, approvals, and executive reporting.

• Lead enterprise sourcing initiatives, supplier assessments, negotiations, contracting strategies, and recommendations for supplier selection.

• Negotiate master supply agreements, long-term contracts, pricing programs, capacity commitments, inventory programs, warranties, rebates, and commercial terms.

• Aggregate spending and demand across MCG operating companies and centers of excellence to achieve purchase-price reductions, cost avoidance, productivity improvements, and total-cost-of-ownership decreases.

• Develop supplier cost breakdowns, should-cost models, competitive benchmarks, and total-landed-cost analyses.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Estimating, and Finance on design-to-cost initiatives, value engineering, specification optimization, component standardization, and savings validation.

• Transform sales pipeline data, backlog, bills of material, manifests, project timelines, and long-lead requirements into demand forecasts, capacity plans, sourcing allocations, and priorities.

• Secure and manage forward capacity commitments, allocation entitlements, forecast coverage, supplier obligations, escalation triggers, and recovery milestones.

• Formulate dual-source, multi-source, contingency, strategic inventory, pre-buy, supplier-stocking, distributor-stocking, and long-lead buffer strategies.

• Collaborate with Engineering to identify preferred components and qualified alternatives while maintaining technical and qualification approval ownership.

• Oversee the commercial aspects of cross-reference and alternate-product strategies.

• Integrate sourcing into proposals, product configuration, design releases, new-product introductions, and engineering changes.

• Act as the enterprise commercial relationship owner for strategic OEMs, distributors, and channel partners.

• Lead Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), plant visits, capacity assessments, scorecards, corrective actions, audits, investment discussions, recovery plans, and escalation governance.

• Partner with Supplier Quality, Engineering, Operations, and center-of-excellence teams to address capability gaps, qualify suppliers, enhance incoming quality, and recover supplier performance.

• Develop enterprise, regional, and center-of-excellence channel strategies encompassing OEM-direct, national-distributor, regional-distributor, and project-specific sources.

• Align pricing, authorized-channel requirements, stocking, releases, Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), consignment, and program-specific inventory with validated backlog and pipeline.

• Establish governance for cancellations, rescheduling, inventory liability, excess and obsolete materials, last-time buys, obsolescence, and working-capital exposure.

• Provide indirect leadership to sourcing and purchasing professionals while centers of excellence maintain transactional purchasing responsibility.

• Lead MCG-sponsored initiatives through validated center-of-excellence execution.

• Supply category insights for major proposals, customer commitments, contract reviews, SIOP, and clear-to-build readiness.

• Integrate category initiatives with Engineering, Sales, Operations, Quality, Planning, Project Management, Finance, Logistics, and executive stakeholders.

• Deliver concise reports on negotiations, supplier performance, capacity, cost exposure, risks, and strategic initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, commodity management, or supply chain leadership within manufacturing or engineered-product sectors.

• Proven success in developing and executing enterprise sourcing and category management strategies across multiple locations, business units, or product lines.

• Demonstrated experience in negotiating complex commercial agreements, long-term supply contracts, supplier partnerships, and risk-sharing arrangements.

• Experience leading initiatives to improve supplier performance in areas such as quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.

• Track record of achieving material productivity, cost reductions, value engineering, and supplier rationalization initiatives.

• Strong understanding of supplier quality systems, supplier development methodologies, contract governance, and supply risk management.

• Experience in building executive-level supplier relationships and conducting supplier business reviews.

• Proven ability to work effectively in multi-site, matrixed, and growth-oriented organizations.

• Advanced skills in negotiation, supplier relationship management, and commercial leadership.

• Strong financial acumen, including expertise in cost modeling, total cost of ownership analysis, savings validation, and margin impact assessment.

• Ability to develop and execute enterprise sourcing and supplier management strategies that align with business objectives and growth plans.

• Advanced analytical capabilities and data-driven decision-making skills.

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively utilize AI and modern digital productivity tools, including generative AI.

• Familiarity with spend analytics, ERP, business intelligence, and sourcing tools.

• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and achieve alignment without direct organizational authority.

• Proven ability to lead supplier performance improvement initiatives and manage complex supplier relationships.

• Advanced skills in presentation development and data storytelling.

• High level of accountability, business judgment, and follow-through.

• Ability to thrive in dynamic, fast-paced, and growth-oriented environments.

• Capacity to move around the manufacturing plant, including walking, standing, and climbing stairs.

• Ability to lift and carry items weighing up to twenty-five (25) pounds.

• Must possess adequate vision and hearing to navigate the plant safely and communicate effectively.

• Successful completion of pre-employment requirements, including a background check and pre-employment drug screening.

🏝️ Benefits

• Salary based on FLSA guidelines; project demands and tight client deadlines may necessitate workweeks exceeding forty hours, including weekends or holidays.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Reasonable accommodations provided for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the ADA.