Global Sourcing Manager: Strategy, Negotiation & Supplier Growth

Parker Aerospace; MacGregor Park (NC); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Parker Hannifin is seeking a Commodity Manager to lead global sourcing strategies for a defined business segment and manage the supply base. You will oversee a team of Sourcing Agents and drive negotiations, RFQ processes, and supplier awards to meet technical and cost targets.

The role emphasizes Total Cost of Ownership, risk reduction, and supply chain performance, with travel up to 30% to support strategy development and supplier evaluations. Based in Cary, NC or Erie, PA.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of sourcing experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering.
• 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 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint)

Responsibilities

• Directly, and/or via their team, coordinates development, communication and implementation of commodity and negotiation strategies on a global basis.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 the defined business segment within the Division.
• Identify, evaluate, and select suppliers that meet technical, quality, cost, delivery, and capacity requirements, including coordination of material samples required by the technology team.
• Lead supplier RFQ processes, cost analysis, negotiations, and supplier award recommendations to support business and project objectives.
• Drive supplier readiness activities, including capacity planning, lead-time validation, risk assessment, and production ramp-up support.
• Support the transition from development sourcing to production purchasing, ensuring clear handoff and ongoing supply chain ownership.
• Responsible for communicating and managing changes in demand and/or material costs for raw materials by maintaining close communications with the Sourcing Agents, supply base, sales, technology and manufacturing entities.Management of these changes includes expansion/contraction of supply base and insource/outsource of manufactured products.
• 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 the defined business segment within the Division.
• 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.

Skills

Sourcing experience

Contract negotiations

Global sourcing & value analysis

MRP systems understanding

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Chemistry, or Chemical Engineering

Tools

Microsoft 365

Job description

Parker Hannifin is seeking a Commodity Manager to lead global sourcing strategies for a defined business segment and manage the supply base. You will oversee a team of Sourcing Agents and drive negotiations, RFQ processes, and supplier awards to meet technical and cost targets.

The role emphasizes Total Cost of Ownership, risk reduction, and supply chain performance, with travel up to 30% to support strategy development and supplier evaluations. Based in Cary, NC or Erie, PA.