Strategic Sourcing Category Lead

Description

• Meets or exceeds profit plan goals related to categories: cost savings, raw material economics, quality, supplier rationalization and other agreed upon objectives.
• Supports internal quarterly vendor reviews to ensure supplier challenges are addressed including corrective action plans, alternate sourcing strategies, and contract adherence. Supports external Quarterly Business Reviews with preferred vendors and provide performance feedback regarding quality, service, and cost while having clear and actionable initiatives to improve all three areas.
• Assesses risk to suppliers and materials as well as recommending risk mitigation plans.
• Acts as primary point of contact for FTI personnel to resolve supplier issues.
• Participates in cost reduction activities, observes, and reports price increases.
• Facilitates involvement of supplier technical support resources for Faith projects.
• Identifies opportunities to utilize supplier-driven innovation in Faith designs.
• Aids the business in supplier problem resolution concerns as they arise for respective commodities.
• Manages relationships with key suppliers to maintain quality of goods, timely delivery, and compliance with terms of contracts.
• Facilitates the development and implementation of standardized specifications between suppliers and Faith design teams.
• Negotiates corporate programs with strategic suppliers and develop new alliances to meet the needs of the field.
• Drives communication, data collection, continuous improvement, and overall relationships within Faith for purchases.
• Identifies, builds, and maintains mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships and alliances with select suppliers through Supplier Relationship Management programs.
• Acts as a change agent – identifies new tools, analyses, strategies etc. to drive continuous transformation within the sourcing organization.
• Qualifies alternative supply sources on key products and services; based on risk mitigation, cost out opportunities, etc.
• Works collaboratively with internal resources ensuring information gathered is sufficient for effective sourcing activities
• Acts as the expert for the respective categories through complete understanding of industry, competition, future technologies, and innovations.
• Analyzes key sourcing KPI’s, spend data, and vendor performance scores.
• Develops, leads, assesses, and executes purchasing strategies as related to commodity material across all business groups.
• Develops, issues, and manages Request for Proposal (RFP) or bid process for sourcing goods and services to achieve savings based on targeted specifications.
• Reviews supplies to ensure quality.

Requirements

• Consistently demonstrates exceptional customer service to internal and external customers.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance