Sourcing Leader

Position Summary

The Sourcing Leader is responsible for strategies and negotiations on a defined set of commodities that support current corporate and regional metrics including, but not limited to, profitability, cash flow, sales growth and risk reduction.

Responsibilities

• Coordination, development, communication and implementation of commodity and negotiation strategies. Strategies will focus on Total Cost of Ownership, Risk Reduction and current corporate and regional metrics.
• Responsible for negotiating complex business agreements and other contractual instruments with a global supply base.
• Drives all key sourcing decisions on global supply base for their set of commodities, whether domestic, near shore or offshore.
• Responsible for communicating and managing changes in demand and/or material costs for raw materials by maintaining close communications with the supply base, sales, technology and manufacturing entities. Management of these changes includes expansion/contraction of supply base and insource/outsource of manufactured products.
• Active collaboration with international regional counterparts to make effective supply decisions, leverage global volumes and identification of cost reduction opportunities.
• Identification and management of issues related to flow, turn, and economic order quantities, length of supply chain, storage requirements, and obsolescence.
• Development and implementation of risk reduction activities for their set of commodities.
• Travel to global manufacturing facilities and suppliers to facilitate strategy development/implementation, negotiations, development of global relationships and supplier manufacturing site evaluations. Travel may be up to thirty (30) percent of the time.

Qualifications

REQUIRED

• Bachelor's Degree in one of these academic focus area: Business, Supply Chain, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering
• Three (3) to five (5) years of sourcing experience
• Experience with direct contract and price negotiations
• Demonstrated past success in global sourcing and value analysis with external suppliers
• Understanding of MRP Systems, specifically supply chain transactions and master data
• Microsoft 360 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint)

PREFERRED

• Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of chemical sourcing experience dealing with chemical commodities
• Certified Purchasing Manager
• ASQ or IASSC Green/Black Belt
• 2nd Language: German, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century, we've enabled engineering breakthroughs that make energy cleaner, transportation safer, medical treatments more effective, and manufacturing more efficient.

With empowered team members in more than 40 countries, Parker serves customers across aerospace & defense, energy, HVAC & refrigeration, in-plant & industrial equipment, off-highway and transportation.

Our scale is global, but our purpose is personal. We enable breakthroughs that improve lives, strengthen communities and create a brighter future.

Our Purpose - Enabling Engineering Breakthroughs that Lead to a Better Tomorrow - comes to life through our people-first culture where teamwork drives performance, inclusion fuels innovation and growth is encouraged. This environment fosters collaboration and empowers team members from engineering and manufacturing to finance, supply chain, human resources, information technology and beyond.

By combining deep expertise with an entrepreneurial spirit, we help customers succeed in markets that demand performance, reliability, and sustainability.

As we look to the future, Parker is advancing initiatives in energy efficiency and sustainability while developing the next generation of talent and leaders to engineer a better tomorrow.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Parker is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Parker is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job related reasons regardless of race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law. However, U.S. Citizenship, Permanent Residency or other appropriate status is required for certain positions, in accord with U.S. import & export regulations.

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Drug-Free Workplace
In accordance with Parker's policies and applicable state laws, Parker provides for a drug-free workplace. Therefore, all applicants seeking employment with Parker will be subject to drug testing as a condition of employment.