Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials, Fabrications

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

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement enterprise category strategies for structural steel, copper, fabricated metals, weldments, machining, coatings, and associated services.

• Track commodity indexes, market dynamics, tariffs, freight, and capacity limitations; provide forecasts and executive briefings.

• Establish methodologies for commodity pricing, baselines, adjustment mechanisms, and commercial controls.

• Lead enterprise sourcing initiatives, supplier selection processes, negotiations, and contract strategies.

• Negotiate indexed and long-term contracts, volume commitments, inventory programs, and capacity reservations.

• Aggregate spending and demand across operating companies and centers of excellence to achieve enterprise savings.

• Develop should-cost and total cost of ownership models.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Estimating, and Finance on design-to-cost, value engineering, material utilization, pricing, and savings validation.

• Build and qualify a regional supplier network to support the nationwide manufacturing presence.

• Establish dual-source, multi-source, and contingency strategies for essential materials and processes.

• Secure forward capacity and spearhead supplier recovery initiatives.

• Collaborate with Engineering and suppliers to standardize materials, specifications, and finishes.

• Lead design-for-manufacturability and make-versus-buy evaluations.

• Support the qualification and implementation of alternative materials, processes, suppliers, and finishes.

• Act as the enterprise relationship leader for strategic suppliers and conduct business reviews.

• Create supplier scorecards, implement corrective actions, and prioritize performance recovery efforts.

• Promote supplier development focused on delivery, quality, capacity, responsiveness, and cost competitiveness.

• Develop sourcing strategies based on total-landed-cost and optimize transportation, packaging, routing, and delivery frequency.

• Collaborate with Logistics and Operations to enhance material flow and establish contingencies for critical and oversized shipments.

• Provide indirect leadership to COE sourcing and purchasing professionals.

• Lead MCG-sponsored savings projects and integrate category strategies with materials leadership, SIOP, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and executive stakeholders.

• Assist with capacity, clear-to-build preparedness, customer commitments, and major proposals.

• Conduct periodic visits to MCG manufacturing sites and supplier facilities.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Advanced degree is preferred.

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

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

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

• Experience in leading initiatives for supplier performance improvement related to quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.

• Proven success in achieving material productivity, cost reduction, 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.

• Effective in multi-site, matrixed, and growth-oriented organizations.

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

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

• Capability to develop and implement enterprise sourcing and supplier management strategies aligned with business objectives and growth plans.

• Advanced analytical and data-driven decision-making abilities.

• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis.

• Proven ability to leverage AI and modern digital productivity tools, including generative AI.

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

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

• Advanced skills in presentation development and data storytelling.

• Capability to operate effectively in dynamic, fast-paced, and growth-oriented environments.

• Ability to navigate the manufacturing plant, including walking, standing, and climbing stairs.

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

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

• Successful completion of a background check and pre-employment drug screening is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• FLSA-exempt salaried position.

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).