Senior Sourcing Specialist

Senior Sourcing Specialist

The Senior Sourcing Specialist is responsible to perform and steer tactical sourcing initiatives within defined thresholds and in accordance with relevant category strategies within a country. This covers demand clarification, performing of sourcing initiatives incl. tendering, negotiation, awarding, supplier relationship management and managing the purchase order processing for the related sourcing initiatives.

* This position requires working on-site at our Lake Zurich, IL site 3 days per week; the other days may be worked remotely.

* This position does not offer visa sponsorship either now or in the future.

• Salary Range: $85,
• Position is eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan with a target of 6% of the base salary.
• Final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to experience level, education, knowledge, skills, and abilities.
• Our benefits and programs are comprehensive and thoughtfully crafted to ensure our colleagues live healthy lives and have support when it matters most. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with company contributions, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, employee assistance program, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage.

• Ensure achievement of defined objectives and KPIs, including delivery of savings targets
• Report and analyze the status of sourcing activities, plan-to-strategy
• Support and implement category strategy development: provide local requirements and data, actively participate in category working groups, align with local stakeholders. Implement category strategies within country source-to-contract
• Clarify sourcing request, align and finalize specification with requestor, review if sourcing is required in alignment with category sourcing strategy
• Define and implement sourcing strategy / RFX approach
• Manage supplier selection decision making and supplier awarding
• Manage contract creation and review process with internal functions and supplier
• Manage sign-off and archiving of contract
• Support commercial aspects of e-catalog management Supplier Relationship Management
• Manage supplier registration and pre-qualification of country specific suppliers
• Evaluate and provide feedback on supplier performance (hard and soft facts)
• Manage supplier performance, create development plans, define and track improvement measures
• Conduct supplier disqualification and phase-out

• Bachelor’s degree preferred in Business Management or Engineering
• 5+ years of procurement experience
• Proficient understanding of the end-to-end procurement process (plan-to-strategy, source-to-contract, purchase-to-pay)
• Proficient user in MS Office (MS Word, MS Excel, MS PPT)
• Proficient user in SAP ERP (SAP MM, SAP SRM, SAP FI)
• Optional:
  Basic user in Sourcing Tool e.g., SAP Ariba Sourcing, Supplier Management