Strategic Sourcing Manager
Los Angeles, CA$121k - $181kFull-timePosted 11mo ago
About the role
Strategic Sourcing Manager responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies across sites for raw materials, equipment, consumables, COTS hardware, and outside processing, ensuring optimal cost, quality, and delivery.
Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing efforts for assigned commodities, including supplier identification, selection, and onboarding.
- Develop and execute creative commodity strategies and commercial deals to achieve best in class performance in cost, supply and quality.
- Effectively engage with suppliers to negotiate optimal terms for master supply agreements and statements of work.
- Maintain strong relationships with supplier executive teams and own the escalation path.
- Monitor global supplier performance using defined metrics and organize supplier business reviews.
- Collaborate with pre-sales engineering teams on program early engagement to ensure technical requirements are met, appropriate capability exists within the supply base and supplier selection aligns with commodity strategy.
- Ensure accurate purchasing throughout the global ERP system.
- Monitor and manage supply chain risk including identifying and addressing potential failure points.
- Collaborate with supplier development team to create supplier capability and technology roadmaps and ensure supplier executive backing.
- Develop supply chain strategy for any new sites assessing capabilities to be local versus global.
- Perform make versus buy analysis and recommend areas to invest in internal capability.
- Analyze long term demand to develop future supply chain capacity and capability plans.
- Travel domestically and internationally (up to 25%) to meet with suppliers.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering or related field.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in strategic sourcing and commodity management.
- Proficiency with ERP/MRP systems with experience developing requirements.
- Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.
- Exceptional negotiation and supplier relationship skills.
- Ability to switch between meticulous attention to detail and big-picture strategic thinking.
- Capable of thinking and staying focused under pressure.
- Excellent decision-making skills and comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
Skills
Required:Strategic sourcingNegotiationERP/MRPEngineering drawing interpretationContract/ supplier relationship management
Nice to have:Supply chain risk management
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans for employees
- 401k
- Relocation support may be provided for certain situations, based on business need.
- Flexible vacation policy
- Equity
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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