Senior Sourcing Leader - Metals & Fabrication (Remote)

Mission Critical Group; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Mission Critical Group (MCG) is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager - Raw Materials & Fabrications to develop enterprise category strategies for metals, fabricated components, and finishing services tied to MCG product platforms. You will build regional supplier capacity, implement index-based pricing, and drive should-cost analyses to cut material and logistics lead times.

This senior individual contributor role carries executive presence and requires negotiating long-term agreements, managing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 10+ years of strategic sourcing, supplier management, or supply chain leadership.
• Experience developing and executing enterprise sourcing and category management strategies across multiple sites or business units.
• Proven negotiation of complex commercial agreements, long-term contracts, and supplier partnerships.
• Experience leading supplier performance improvement initiatives related to quality, delivery, capacity, and cost.
• Strong financial modeling, cost reduction, value engineering, and savings validation.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute enterprise category strategies for structural steel, copper, fabricated metals, weldments, machining, coatings, and related services.
• Lead enterprise sourcing events, supplier selection, negotiations, and contract strategies for assigned categories.
• Develop should-cost and total cost of ownership models covering material, conversion, freight, inventory, lead time, and working capital.
• Monitor commodity indexes, market conditions, tariffs, freight, and capacity constraints; provide forecasts and executive updates.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Estimating, and Finance on design-to-cost and savings validation.
• Aggregate spend and demand across operating companies and drive enterprise savings initiatives.

Skills

Advanced negotiation

Supplier relationship management

Commercial leadership

Financial acumen

Data-driven decision making

Excel analytics

Strategic sourcing

Cost modeling

Sourcing strategy

Executive presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

ERP systems

Spend analytics software

Business intelligence tools

Sourcing tools

Job description

Mission Critical Group (MCG) is seeking a Strategic Sourcing Manager - Raw Materials & Fabrications to develop enterprise category strategies for metals, fabricated components, and finishing services tied to MCG product platforms. You will build regional supplier capacity, implement index-based pricing, and drive should-cost analyses to cut material and logistics lead times.

This senior individual contributor role carries executive presence and requires negotiating long-term agreements, managing