Sourcing Specialist I

1 week ago

Minneapolis, United States The Toro Company Full time
Sourcing Specialist I - The Toro Company

Who Are We?

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens to venues such as St. Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in. With 100 years of operation under our belt and an average employee tenure of 15 years, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place to build a career.

The Sourcing Specialist I position is an essential role in the sourcing department. The Sourcing Specialist I position is an anchor point in the commodity team to ensure optimization of material flow into Toro's manufacturing sites. The role works closely with the operational planning group, inventory analysis, supplier quality and their commodity team. The Sourcing Specialist I position ensures collaboration across the supply partners and commodity team to help the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) achieve its goals of Operational Excellence and Sustainability. This role blends tactical and strategic capabilities, with focus on the tactical, within the global sourcing department and significantly impacts the day-to-day operations of The Toro Company (TTC). This role is highly engaging and can also provide opportunities to explore additional future career paths within our dynamic Sourcing department.

Sponsorship:

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment VISA at this time.

Work Location:

This opportunity is based out of Bloomington, MN international headquarters. Candidates should prepare for a hybrid schedule, that includes 3-days on-site; and 2 optional days at a home office.

What Will You Do?

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for:
  • Maintain the supplier relationship through excellent communication to ensure the supplier has alignment with ISC's goals.
  • Understand, and support the category-specific strategy. Understand how category strategy connects to ISC strategy. Support Sourcing Specialist and Category Manager in long-term cost control strategies to fit specific strategic supplier partnerships and commodities. Support lead time maintenance and reduction. Manage purchase requisition queue and ensure purchase orders are placed with suppliers offering fair pricing, outstanding quality, and excellent service.
  • Support multiple areas of the parts procurement process within TTC's MRP/ERP system. Support the TTC's Escalation process and requests from TTC's manufacturing plants on supplier deliveries and escalations as required. Assist supplier transitions. Participate in supplier exit process standardization and continuous improvement projects.
  • Support TTC's Digital Transformation objectives. Assist with the gathering of requested information for Total Cost of Ownership analysis to support the Category Team. Support the deviation from specification (DFS) requests from suppliers. Assist supplier quality engineer when needed.
  • Ensures engineering change notices (ECN's) are completed timely. Ability to troubleshoot routine issues that arise in moderately complex situations. Support various intradepartmental process improvement projects including lean activities, productivity improvements, lead time maintenance and others as assigned.
  • All other tasks and projects as assigned.
What Do You Need?

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Operations or Engineering with 0+ years of professional experience.
  • Sourcing experience or relevant education normally gained by completing degree in supply chain or operations-related field preferred.
  • Self-motivated, ability to work under pressure, manage and prioritize multiple objectives concurrently, attend to details, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
  • Proven ability to analyze situations and accurately take effective actions.
  • Basic skills in Microsoft Suite, MRP/ERP, Ariba and SAP®
  • Ability to maintain composure during rapidly changing situations, remaining focused on the relevant objective.
  • Capacity to work independently as well as within a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
  • Understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and market dynamics for assigned commodities.
Other Job Dimensions:
  • Typical office environment as it pertains to lighting, temperature, and noise level when in administrative / operations offices.
  • Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard and mouse, and to handle other computer components.
  • Able to travel both domestically and internationally, approximately >10%.
What Can We Give You?

At The Toro Company, we are always working to make sure our employees know just how valued they are. In addition to a competitive salary, an affordable and top-tier medical/dental/vision plan, 401k, and many other great benefits - The Toro company offers employees at our Bloomington, MN HQ location a variety of perks, including:
  • Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why TTC employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, corporate environment.
  • Location - This opportunity is based out of Bloomington, MN international headquarters. Candidates should prepare for a hybrid schedule, that includes 3-days on-site; and 2 optional days at a home office.
  • Wellness - The Toro Company's HQ offers complimentary use of our onsite fitness facility to employees. In addition to physical wellbeing, TTC offers a variety of mental health and financial health resources to all employees.
  • Volunteerism - The Toro Company is proud to provide employees 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community.
  • Competitive Salary - The pay range takes into account skills, experience, education, and location. It is not common to be hired at or near the top of the range; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Cash compensation is one piece of our competitive total rewards package. If you need to, you can access your pay early with the One@Work app, formerly the Even app.


At The Toro Company, we are committed to fostering a secure and trustworthy recruitment process for our applicants. Recruitment fraud is a potential threat to job seekers, so please be aware that throughout our recruitment process, you'll never be required to pay any fees or disclose personal financial details when applying to TTC opportunities.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and related needs and conditions, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), political affiliation, military service, or other non-merit based factors. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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