Sourcing Manager

Sourcing Manager

Expand your professional career as a Sourcing Manager with MAU’s client in Peachtree City, GA. As a Sourcing Manager, you will be responsible for engaging key stakeholders and facilitating the development of the local business unit supply chain strategy. This is a direct hire opportunity.

Since 1994, MAU’s client has existed to help people feel safe, secure, and experience a more open world. They are striving to set the standard for the world’s most innovative and well-designed access solutions. The company organizes its business around their values, beliefs, and strategic objectives. Developing and understanding of their customers, they are creating solutions that are both wanted and needed. With over 51,000 colleagues, they believe that their people can achieve extraordinary things, and that the company success depends on creating a strong, shared culture where those colleagues can thrive.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Experience in dealing with technical projects would be a plus (understanding materials, manufacturing processes, packing equipment, quality assurance systems, supplier driven projects, insourcing/outsourcing, project management)
• Background in Manufacturing or Supply chain
• University degree in a technical field
• Strong organization skills
• ERP systems experience (MS AX, SAP, Oracle) and MS Office

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Work with leadership teams to create a world-class system for sourcing of door components, such as but not limited to drives, controls, mechanical systems, pre-manufactured modules, metals, and plastics
• Manage sourcing expenditures and supplier relationships
• Assess purchases from individual suppliers and product families and negotiate broader supply chain agreements as appropriate
• Develop and implement quality control, performance measurement and audit processes for new and current suppliers
• Conduct on-site assessments of all strategic suppliers and drive supplier improvement programs
• Work cross-functionally to balance forecast customer demand with inventory levels to reduce inventory and customer lead times
• Continuously research, identify and lead technical and business evaluations of potential new global and local supply chain solutions
• Get proactively involved and provide qualified supply chain management support to product development programs and position suppliers as appropriate to support transitions to production
• Build and maintain Key Performance Indicators for supply chain processes, including benchmarking
• Work in close cooperation with cross-functional work teams in the development process and life cycle management
• Demonstrate excellent leadership and project management skills
• Savings- Access and create 3 year cost savings & VA/VE pipeline for the plant with support from R&D, Operations, and Product Management
• Support supplier consolidation – evaluate technical commonalities for consolidation in coordination with Engineering
• Serve as local specialist for VA/VE
• Liaise with AAES and Category Management to bring best sourcing practices to the local business unit
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Who is MAU?

MAU Workforce Solutions is an innovative global company with extensive experience providing solutions for success in staffing, recruiting, technology and outsourcing to our clients, employees, and applicants. Headquartered in Augusta, GA since 1973, MAU is a family and minority-owned company offering better processes and better people to create efficiencies and greater profits for our clients. Our relationships with world-class companies, our training programs and our culture of family allow MAU to offer better results, better jobs, and better lives to those who work with us.

Disclaimer: This job description not designed to be a complete list of all duties, responsibilities, and safety requirements required of the Sourcing Manager position.

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