Strategic Sourcing Manager at Nextern

Nextern offers excellent benefits to fuel you in building a fulfilling life & career: Employer subsidized health insurance for employees, Employer paid dental insurance, Employer HSA contribution, 401k plan with a company match, 9 paid holidays (including your birthday!) + PTO and Personal days, Gym membership subsidy, Employee Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, and AD&D Life Insurance Nextern is hiring for the role Strategic Sourcing Manager. This role comes with competitive pay and a full benefits package. A primary objective of our sourcing team is to develop and execute strategies that align with long range business requirements, immediate and critical focus on capacities and supply chain resilience, and global commodity strategies. The Strategic Sourcing Manager will influence and lead our internal stakeholders and engineering partners on requirements, supplier engagement and selection, process improvements, new technologies, etc. Responsibilities: - Work closely with and engage on initiative-taking information sharing with other Global Sourcing Team Members to optimize supply base. - Manage the supplier selection and approval process for all existing and new manufacturing suppliers. - Manage buying activities from requestors, understand business needs and requirements, direct along appropriate channels, and resolve any inquiries and disputes. - Define optimal alignment across strategic sources, training internal teams on processes to engage and enhancing our development processes to better align. - Work with Finance on inventory control. - Develop and implement sourcing strategies in key sourcing categories that results in a sustainable competitive advantage. - Perform data analytics, forecast demand, and identify baselines for purchasing that meet prioritized business requirements. - Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, internal and external to identify needs, address concerns, resolve disputes, and influence change management activities. - Maintain supplier relationships by resolving disputes, establishing governance processes, negotiating commercial terms, and performing stakeholder activities. - Lead a team of buyers for delegated areas of business units by setting team goals and objectives and managing team performance.

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