Global Strategic Sourcing Lead - PPV & VAVE Impact

Hengstler-Dynapar; Elizabethtown (NC); On-site; USD 73,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Hengstler-Dynapar in Elizabethtown, NC seeks a Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist to develop and execute global commodity strategies, drive savings, and mitigate supply risks. You will lead cross-functional sourcing projects, prepare business cases, and negotiate terms to deliver measurable value.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in manufacturing procurement, a related degree, and strong analytical, negotiation, and project-management skills. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience executing sourcing strategies across suppliers, regions, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading or supporting supplier negotiations, PPV and VAVE initiatives, competitive sourcing events, sourcing transitions, and supplier performance improvement activities.

Responsibilities

• Support Global Commodity Manager in developing, maintaining, and executing global commodity strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Translate commodity strategies into actionable sourcing projects, supplier negotiations, implementation plans, milestones, and measurable deliverables.
• Lead or support strategic sourcing initiatives from opportunity identification through RFx, analysis, supplier selection, negotiation, implementation, and savings realization.
• Analyze spend, pricing, market conditions, supplier economics, commodity trends, capacity, lead times, and demand to identify savings opportunities and supply risks.
• Build and manage a productivity pipeline that includes PPV, VAVE, negotiations, should-cost analysis, competitive bidding, supplier consolidation, and low-cost region sourcing.
• Drive annual PPV and VAVE objectives in partnership with engineering, operations, finance, quality, materials, and key suppliers.
• Prepare sourcing recommendations, commercial analyses, business cases, total-cost models, and executive-ready presentations for review and approval.
• Support supplier negotiations and help establish competitive pricing structures, sourcing commitments, and commercial terms.
• Support supply chain risk mitigation through alternate-source development, dual sourcing, capacity reviews, lead-time reduction, inventory alignment, supplier recovery plans, and business continuity actions.
• Coordinate assurance-of-supply escalations involving material availability, allocation, capacity constraints, pricing disputes, lead-time changes, and supplier performance.
• Partner with Buyers/Planners and Materials Management to secure supplier commitments, monitor recovery actions, and communicate risks, decisions, and required actions to stakeholders.
• Support supplier performance management through segmentation, scorecards, business reviews, corrective actions, development plans, and escalation follow-up.
• Project manage cross-functional sourcing, VAVE, resourcing, and supplier improvement initiatives to ensure actions are completed on time and benefits are realized.
• Maintain accurate project trackers, savings forecasts, risk registers, sourcing documentation, and performance dashboards.
• Monitor relevant market intelligence, including commodity movements, tariffs, geopolitical developments, capacity changes, and regional sourcing opportunities, and recommend proactive actions.
• Collaborate with enterprise commodity leaders and regional procurement teams to leverage scale, align sourcing approaches, and share best practices.
• Operate with urgency and high throughput while managing multiple sourcing projects, supplier actions, and supply escalations simultaneously.

Skills

Commercial judgment

Cross-functional

Negotiations

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Conflict resolution

Analytics

Problem solving

Execution

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering

MBA (plus)

ISM CPSM (plus)

Tools

Oracle

JDE

SAP

Power BI

Sequel

Job description

Hengstler-Dynapar in Elizabethtown, NC seeks a Senior Strategic Sourcing Specialist to develop and execute global commodity strategies, drive savings, and mitigate supply risks. You will lead cross-functional sourcing projects, prepare business cases, and negotiate terms to deliver measurable value.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in manufacturing procurement, a related degree, and strong analytical, negotiation, and project-management skills. Travel up to 20% may be required.