Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Reporting to the Global Commodity Manager, the Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist supports the development and execution of global commodity strategies for assigned spend categories. This role is responsible for translating commodity plans into sourcing actions, driving measurable savings through purchase price variance (PPV), value analysis/value engineering (VAVE), negotiations, and other productivity initiatives, and supporting supply chain risk mitigation and assurance-of-supply escalations related to price and availability. The position requires a highly analytical, commercially capable, and execution-focused procurement professional who can coordinate cross-functional stakeholders and suppliers to deliver sustainable business results.

Responsibilities & Deliverables

• Support the Global Commodity Manager in developing, maintaining, and executing global commodity strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Translate commodity strategies into actionable sourcing projects, supplier negotiations, implementation plans, milestones, and measurable deliverables.
• Lead or support strategic sourcing initiatives from opportunity identification through request for quotation, analysis, supplier selection, negotiation, implementation, and savings realization.
• Analyze spend, pricing, market conditions, supplier economics, commodity trends, capacity, lead times, and demand to identify savings opportunities and supply risks.
• Build and manage a productivity pipeline that includes PPV, VAVE, negotiations, should-cost analysis, competitive bidding, supplier consolidation, resourcing, and low-cost region sourcing.
• Drive annual PPV and VAVE objectives in partnership with engineering, operations, finance, quality, materials, and key suppliers.
• Prepare sourcing recommendations, commercial analyses, business cases, total-cost models, and executive-ready presentations for review and approval.
• Support supplier negotiations and help establish competitive pricing structures, sourcing commitments, and commercial terms that protect the business.
• Support supply chain risk mitigation through alternate-source development, dual sourcing, capacity reviews, lead-time reduction, inventory alignment, supplier recovery plans, and business continuity actions.
• Coordinate assurance-of-supply escalations involving material availability, allocation, capacity constraints, pricing disputes, lead-time changes, and supplier performance.
• Partner with Buyers/Planners and Materials Management to secure supplier commitments, monitor recovery actions, and communicate risks, decisions, and required actions to stakeholders.
• Support supplier performance management through segmentation, scorecards, business reviews, corrective actions, development plans, and escalation follow-up.