Plant Procurement Strategist

Clarios, LLC; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Clarios is seeking a Plant Buyer to serve as the primary Procurement partner for assigned manufacturing plants. You will translate plant priorities into procurement solutions to improve cost, supplier performance, and continuity of supply, while aligning with broader procurement strategies across the network.

You will build relationships with plant leadership, engage across operations and finance, and influence sourcing decisions using market intelligence and TCO analyses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Engineering, Finance, or related field.
• Experience in Procurement, sourcing, manufacturing, supply chain, or plant operations.
• Lean techniques and facilitation (A3, VSM, Kaizen).
• Strong negotiation, analytical, commercial, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple manufacturing locations.
• Strong Excel skills, Power BI, RFQ Tools required.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance cost objectives with operational requirements and supply continuity.
• Curious and willing to learn plant operations, Procurement processes, sourcing, and supplier management.
• Collaborative, hands-on, and solutions-oriented mindset.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with leadership and stakeholders across assigned plants.
• Maintain regular engagement to understand operational priorities, challenges, and supplier pain points.
• Influence sourcing decisions by bringing market intelligence, supplier insights, category expertise, and total-cost-of-ownership analyses to plant stakeholders.
• Serve as a responsive, solutions-oriented Procurement partner focused on removing barriers and enabling plant operations.
• Build credibility through listening, responsiveness, follow-through, and delivery of results.
• Analyze supplier spend to identify savings, cost avoidance, benchmarking, consolidation, and sourcing opportunities.
• Partner with Plant Finance to understand spend trends, price increases, and opportunities.
• Maintain a prioritized pipeline of Procurement initiatives across supported plants.
• Leverage corporate agreements and cross-plant synergies to optimize spend and reduce complexity.
• Identify quick wins while developing sustainable sourcing strategies.
• Monitor critical supplier performance and drive corrective actions as needed.
• Proactively identify supplier and supply risks and develop mitigation plans.
• Bring solutions and recommended actions, not simply identify problems.
• Support effective supplier selection, new supplier requests, purchase-order practices, and sourcing decisions.
• Increase spend under contract and improve Procurement and P2P compliance.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate suppliers and standardize requirements across plants.
• Simplify Procurement processes where possible while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Ensure Procurement enables plant operations rather than becoming a bottleneck.
• Negotiate and finalize legal agreements with suppliers in conjunction with Legal department.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical

Communication

Relationship building

Excel

Power BI

RFQ Tools

Lean techniques

Kaizen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain

Tools

Excel

Power BI

RFQ Tools

Job description

Clarios is seeking a Plant Buyer to serve as the primary Procurement partner for assigned manufacturing plants. You will translate plant priorities into procurement solutions to improve cost, supplier performance, and continuity of supply, while aligning with broader procurement strategies across the network.

You will build relationships with plant leadership, engage across operations and finance, and influence sourcing decisions using market intelligence and TCO analyses.