Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager - Supplier Development

Atlas Copco North America LLC; Town of Saugerties (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Hybrid work model

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Atlas Copco North America LLC seeks a Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager - Supplier Development to lead sourcing strategies, supplier onboarding, and continuity plans for critical parts. You will drive supplier assessments, dual-sourcing, and performance reviews to secure capacity for production ramp-ups while delivering savings and risk management.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Finance to ensure timely launches and compliant supplier performance

Qualifications

• Typically 5–8 years of experience in strategic sourcing or supplier development.
• Experience in engineered products or manufacturing preferred.
• Experience sourcing, negotiating with, qualifying, onboarding, and ramping suppliers for NPI or production growth.
• Ability to coordinate with cross-functional teams through qualification and release.
• Strong negotiation and contract management capabilities.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings and BOMs.
• Proven analytical and leadership skills without formal authority.

Responsibilities

• Develop category and supplier strategies aligned with growth, NPI, and supply-resilience priorities.
• Lead market analysis, RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, and total-cost evaluations.
• Assess suppliers for capability, capacity, quality systems, and risk.
• Coordinate onboarding and qualification across multiple functions with milestones and owners.
• Facilitate product and part qualification, including first articles and production release.
• Secure capacity and launch readiness through reviews and commercial agreements.
• Build dual-source and continuity plans for critical parts.
• Lead supplier reviews and recovery plans for quality, delivery, and cost.
• Deliver savings and total-cost benefits without compromising continuity.
• Develop supplier relationships aligning with Atlas Copco requirements.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Supplier development

Negotiation

Risk management

Project leadership

Supply chain resilience

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, or related field

Job description

Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager - Supplier Development

The Strategic Sourcing role is accountable for developing and executing a sustainable procurement strategy within their assigned commodity area. This includes establishing and managing longterm agreements and servicelevel commitments, optimising and rationalising the supplier base, and ensuring effective supplier onboarding. A key focus of the role is strengthening supply chain resilience by building.As Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager - Supplier Development, you will execute sourcing strategies that secure qualified capacity for production ramp-up and build a competitive, resilient supply base. You will lead supplier selection, negotiation, onboarding, qualification coordination, launch readiness, and performance, with particular focus on new product introduction, dual sourcing, and continuity of supply.This is a senior individual-contributor role with no direct reports. Manager reflects accountability for sourcing strategies, supplier relationships, spend, contracts, risk, and results.

What You Will Do:

• Develop category and supplier strategies aligned with growth, NPI, production ramp-up, cost, capacity, quality, and supply-resilience priorities.
• Lead market analysis, RFIs, RFQs and RFPs, total-cost evaluation, negotiations, supplier selection, awards, and agreements.
• Assess suppliers for capability, capacity, processes, quality systems, financial health, scalability, compliance, and risk.
• Coordinate supplier onboarding and qualification across Engineering, Supplier Quality, Operations, Planning, Finance, and other functions, with clear milestones, owners, risks, and escalations.
• Facilitate product and part qualification, including specifications, samples, tooling, first articles, validation, deviation closure, approvals, and production release. Engineering and Quality own technical requirements, validation decisions, and formal approval; you drive supplier response, timing, commercial readiness, escalation, and completion.
• Secure capacity and launch readiness through reviews, forecasts, lead-time and flexibility commitments, inventory plans, and commercial agreements.
• Build dual-source and continuity plans for critical parts and single-source risks, coordinating alternate-source qualification with technical and quality teams.
• Lead supplier reviews, performance improvement, and recovery plans covering quality, delivery, capacity, cost, compliance, and risk.
• Deliver savings, cost avoidance, working-capital improvement, productivity, and total-cost benefits without compromising quality or continuity.
• Develop supplier relationships that improve access to capacity, technology, and innovation while meeting legal, ethical, sustainability, and Atlas Copco requirements.

To succeed, you will need

• Typically 5-8 years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier development, procurement, or supply chain, preferably in engineered products or manufacturing.
• Success sourcing, negotiating with, qualifying, onboarding, and ramping suppliers for NPI or production growth.
• Experience coordinating suppliers and cross-functional teams through qualification and production release.
• Strong negotiation, contract management, cost analysis, total-cost, supplier-performance, and risk-management capabilities.
• Ability to interpret technical drawings, specifications, bills of material, manufacturing processes, and supplier-capability information.
• Strong communication, influence, judgment, analytical problem-solving, and project leadership without formal authority.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, engineering, business, operations, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

Location and travel:

This position may be remote within the United States or hybrid; residence near Saugerties, New York, is not required.Approximately 40% travel is expected, primarily to supplier sites for qualification, launch readiness, business reviews, improvement, and issue resolution, and to company locations. Travel will be mainly within North America, with international travel as needed. Arrangements are subject to company policy, employment eligibility, payroll and tax requirements, and business needs.

In return, we offer

• Culture of trust and accountability
• Lifelong learning and career growth
• Innovation powered by people
• Comprehensive compensation and benefits
• 401k Automatic Company Contribution and match
• Generous PTO package
• Annual Variable Compensation Program

Job location

This position may be remote within the United States or hybrid; residence near Saugerties, New York, is not required.