Strategic Sourcing Manager SWA-86-902

Overview of the Position:

Strategic Sourcing role facilitates growth initiatives for the business and is responsible for market understanding and purchasing of core material for the business. Finding material that can support the overall business and create the sales needed to help drive the Inventory Sales and exchange programs. Overall responsibility for the Rotable Sales Inventory level and working with the Inventory Sales manager, Shop Purchasing agents to support USM and Material purchases. It will align with internal business partners and work with the strategic supplier base to convert opportunities through strategic sourcing that bring value to our business. They will develop more efficient sourcing processes to save costs and maximize profitability by negotiating with suppliers to obtain goods, material and services at the best availability and price through strategic purchasing.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Take ownership in, facilitate, and effectively communicate, with sales, product line management and pricing, key sourcing opportunities and deliverables.

• Create a superior customer experience by managing and delivering sourcing projects on time.
• Create and maintain long-lasting relationships with our strategic supply base through communications and relationship building
• Help other Wencor shops with product support in the market if needed to support the core product initiative.
• Recognize both tactical and strategic opportunities to create value through partnering with suppliers who can create a superior market advantage over our competition.
• Work directly with Inventory sales team to help drive sales at core customers that brokered sales play a part of such as KLM.
• Work directly with our internal purchasing team to find product that can help drive cost down through USM purchasing.
• Create higher sales through better acquisition and growth of inventory sales.

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Analytically minded and able to review and interpret large amounts of data.
• Proven experience and knowledge in aerospace hardware sourcing processes.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excellent Excel Skills, and Outlook.
• Must be able to work well with team members in a collaborative and respectful manner.
• Strong negotiation skills.
• Sound time-management and organizational skills.
• Must have the ability to work independently.
• Must be detail oriented and focused on results.

Education / Experience Requirements: Bachelor's degree in administration, logistics, supply chain or related field or 5 years of equivalent experience

Other Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representatives of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Is occasionally required to walk and lift up to twenty-five pounds.
• Is regularly required to sit and reach with hands and arms.
• Is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and to talk or hear.
• Works at moderate noise levels.
• Travel will be required on occasions