Director, Strategic Sourcing

4 weeks ago

Indianapolis, United States Wabash Inc Full time

As a Strategic Sourcing Director, you will work on a variety of overall strategic initiative by taking a leadership role over enterprise spend. Activities include, but are not limited to, determining spend regarding commodities and categories with a high level of business, technical, and supply complexity. This position be responsible for coordinating cross-functionally as well as building and developing inter-departmental teams. This position would be hybrid with monthly travel to our corporate office in Lafayette, IN. Ideally we would like this person to be located or willing to relocate (Indiana, Illinois, Michigan).

Your Responsibilities:

Attracts, equips, develops, and leads a team of ethical sourcing professionals

Develops and manages key supplier relationships to reduce overall total costs, enhance product performance and continuously improve supplier performance

Collaborates across the business unit leadership and operations teams to achieve cost, performance, and quality targets

Maintains a systematic, analytical, and results-based method for monitoring supplier’s performance

Identifies, selects, and proactively develops suppliers who provide superior value in quality products that provide the best value to Wabash and our customers

Leads negotiation efforts and documentation of commercial arrangements with key suppliers via long‑term supply agreements and price agreements

Drives a competitive advantage for Wabash by aggregating and leveraging spend across business units

Conducts complex market and internal data analysis to identify new opportunities and increase spend under supply agreement and purchase orders

Supports new product development efforts by finding and developing technology, suppliers and processes that provide an advantage to the business

Sets vision and implement value-adding long term commodity strategies

Understands current and future market trends that drive material cost changes and communicate across organization for appropriate actions to mitigate risks

Develops commodity hedging plans and implement other risk management strategies

Increases usage of vendor managed inventory and consignment programs

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree (Preferred Major: Business or Engineering)

Minimum 10 years of experience in supply chain or procurement within a manufacturing environment

Proficiency in leading cross functional teams to implement supplier change and/or cost savings initiatives across a large, complex supply base and geographically diverse manufacturing locations

Familiarity with reading blueprints and understanding basic engineering documents

Capability in leading cross functional teams to implement supplier change and/or cost savings initiatives across a large, complex supply base and geographically diverse manufacturing locations

Ability to adapt quickly to internally and externally dynamic environment

Knowledge of commodities, materials, categories, and products being purchased

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate both verbally and in written form

Experience with being high analytical to solve complex problems

This role will require 30% travel to Wabash locations and suppliers.

Master’s Degree preferred

Leadership Attributes:

At Wabash, we pride ourselves on being empowering, and there are some things we feel very strongly about:

Embrace Diversity and Inclusion – Solicit and respect the input of others, celebrate differences, and strive for transparency and inclusiveness

Seek to Listen – Actively listen to reach the best solution and make the strongest decisions

Always Learn – Strive to improve; do not quit or settle for the status quo

Be Authentic – Demonstrate honesty, incredible energy, and grit in everything you do

Win Together – Collaborate, seek alignment, and excel at cross-group communication to success as one team and One Wabash

Join us in turning ideas into world-changing realities. Curate and build your high-impact professional career at Wabash

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