Strategic Sourcing Manager

Join Emerson as a Strategic Sourcing Manager in St. Louis. The selected candidate will improve our supply chain's speed, flexibility, and quality. In this crucial position, your main responsibility will involve developing and implementing sourcing strategies for a range of direct materials. You will lead and guide a team of procurement professionals, ensuring their efforts align with ETC's operational and financial objectives.

Reporting to the Global Supply Chain Director, you will closely collaborate with corporate supply chain personnel to drive initiatives that improve customer satisfaction and operational excellence.

In this role, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing functional and administrative leadership to the procurement team for a specific category of direct material purchases.
• Approving the selection of suppliers for contract awards and approving the final provisions and language negotiated for associated supply agreements.
• Monitoring and reporting key performance indicators to ensure all assigned category sourcing strategies meet or exceed the minimum operational performance requirements.
• Managing the strategic business relationship with key preferred suppliers for assigned categories, including periodic business performance reviews.
• Representing procurement in the development and administration of key business processes and systems used in supply chain management.
• Responsibilities may include managing a specific commodity, leading the alignment, implementation, and follow-up of Emerson Corporate strategies at Emerson Tool, such as sustainability, E-Sourcing, DPO improvement, and tariff reporting.

This role's principal accountabilities include:

• Net material inflation reported in the Emerson Savings Tracker.
• Savings contributions from targeted procurement programs.
• Sourcing actions achieving best cost and regionalization.
• Negotiated payment terms exceeding the minimum measured as days payable outstanding (DPO).
• Utilization and compliance with supply agreements for all purchases.
• Streamlining and improving the quantity of vendors in the supply network.
• Sustaining supply chain performance for defects and on-time delivery.
• Utilization and execution of E-Sourcing and negotiation programs for contract awards.
• Optimizing inventory velocity as reported by days on hand.
• Driving speed throughout the supply chain with lead time reduction, regionalization, and supplier pull and replenishment activities.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A BS/BA in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in supply chain management, purchasing, supplier evaluation, and negotiating.
• Demonstrated leadership and management ability through experience with management or team leadership of a large scope project, cross-functional team, or prior management position.
• Proven communication and organizational skills enabling collaboration, partnership, and consensus building.
• Outstanding negotiation skills and experience in contract administration.
• Excellent digital literacy with online applications and systems, and utilization of software tools such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
• Analytical skills are vital in the study of data from numerous sources for developing relevant and actionable information and reports.
• Established proficiency in financial and economic evaluations.
• Travel required up to 50%.

Preferred qualifications that set you apart include:

• An MBA.

At Emerson, we prioritize a workplace where every employee is valued, respected, and empowered to grow. We foster an environment that encourages innovation, collaboration, and diverse perspectives. Our commitment to ongoing career development and growing an inclusive culture ensures you have the support to thrive.

Emerson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.