Strategic Sourcing Specialist

2 weeks ago

Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway Copeland Full time
Job Description

The Strategic Sourcing Engineer role at Copeland is responsible for developing and implementing sourcing strategies to control product cost and lead times, minimizing site inventory. Key areas include establishing beneficial supplier agreements through collaboration and negotiation, leading contracts, and tracking performance metrics to ensure expected results and take appropriate action when necessary.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Build and maintain good relationships with key suppliers, leading regular metric-based supplier business reviews to ensure alignment with business goals.
  2. Develop and lead negotiations (T&Cs, pricing, etc.) for both direct and indirect items with suppliers.
  3. Collaborate with Supplier Quality to align on required supplier qualification activities, including first articles and supplier audits for new and existing suppliers.
  4. Drive data collection, metric development, and analysis to measure supply chain efficiency.
  5. Identify, in collaboration with stakeholders, activities/projects that would drive supplier cost reduction and net material inflation improvement, improve supplier timely delivery, support supplier quality improvements, inventory turn improvements, and reduce supply chain risks.
  6. Ensure accurate screening and recording of all transactions under own responsibility in accordance with the company's Trade Compliance procedures, and call out any concerns or questions to the local Gatekeeper.
  7. Collaborate with New Product Development teams to ensure new parts introduced can be produced by suppliers at reasonable cost, risk, and lead time, and that end-of-life risks are minimized to the extent possible.
  8. Support the work of New Product Development teams in supplier identification/selection to minimize sole and single source suppliers and reuse existing suppliers where possible.
  9. Take the lead in implementing agreed supplier-facing improvement activities/projects.
Requirements
  1. Bachelor/Master's Degree in business, supply chain management, engineering, or related fields (Any combination equivalent to experience and education that could provide the required knowledge and abilities would be qualifying).
  2. Proven track record of years in strategic sourcing and procurement roles, with a track record of successful cost optimization and supplier relationship management.
  3. Experience working with new product development projects and new product introductions.
  4. Strong analytical and negotiation skills.
  5. Proficient in using procurement software and tools.
  6. Willingness to travel regularly domestically and internationally.
  7. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, proficiency in English language both verbally and in writing.
Preferred Qualifications
  1. Technical background or education would be preferred to ensure efficient collaboration with suppliers.
  2. Experience working with similar products, parts.
  3. Experience working in Oil&Gas industries would be nice to have.
  4. Proficient in interpreting manufacturing/machining drawings with a basic understanding of manufacturing/machining/measurement methods.

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