Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials & Fabrications
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Remote, us
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Operations
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, commodity management, or supply chain leadership within manufacturing or engineered-product environments.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise sourcing and category management strategies across multiple sites, business units, or product lines.
- Proven experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, long-term supply contracts, supplier partnerships, and risk-sharing arrangements.
- Experience leading supplier performance improvement initiatives related to quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.
- Demonstrated success delivering material productivity, cost reduction, value engineering, and supplier rationalization initiatives.
- Strong understanding of supplier quality systems, supplier development methodologies, contract governance, and supply risk management.
- Experience building executive-level supplier relationships and conducting supplier business reviews.
- Experience working effectively in multi-site, matrixed, and growth-oriented organizations.
Full description
The Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials & Fabrications develops and executes
enterprise category strategies for metals, fabricated components, and finishing services supporting
MCG product platforms, including low- and medium-voltage switchgear and switchboards, e-
houses, skids, and other engineered power solutions. The role builds regional supply capacity,
implements index-based commodity pricing and risk models, improves cost transparency, executes
should-cost and total cost of ownership analyses, mitigates commodity and supply risks, and
reduces material, fabrication, and logistics lead times across assigned categories.
This is a high-impact individual contributor position with the authority, visibility, and executive
presence expected of a senior sourcing leader. The position owns more than $100 million in direct
material spend and serves as MCG's commercial leader and subject-matter expert for the assigned
categories.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Structural steel, including beams, tubing, channels, angles, and plate
- Copper, including busbar, grounding products, wire, and related conductive materials
- Sheet metal fabrication, heavy structural weldments, precision machining, and associated value-added processing
- Industrial coatings, paint, plating, finishes, freight, and logistics services
- Other categories as assigned
Key Business Outcomes:
- Material Productivity
- Strategic Supplier Delivery, Quality & Performance
- Category Strategy, Capacity & Supply Continuity
Accountabilities:Category Strategy & Commodity Market Intelligence
- Develop and execute enterprise category strategies for structural steel, copper, fabricated metals, weldments, machining, coatings, and related services; segment suppliers based on capability, competitiveness, risk, and strategic importance.
- Monitor commodity indexes, market conditions, tariffs, freight, and capacity constraints; provide forecasts and executive updates on financial exposure, supply risk, and recommended actions.
- Establish commodity pricing methodologies, baselines, adjustment mechanisms, and commercial controls to improve transparency and manage volatility.
Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Leadership
- Lead enterprise sourcing events, supplier selection, negotiations, and contract strategies for assigned categories.
- Negotiate indexed and long-term agreements, volume commitments, inventory programs, and capacity reservations using spend analysis, market intelligence, should-cost, and total cost of ownership.