Strategic Sourcing Engineer | Negotiation & Cost Savings

Ingersoll Rand; Lebanon (KY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ingersoll Rand is seeking a Sourcing Engineer to support North American compressor products. You will partner with engineering teams and suppliers to achieve cost, quality and delivery targets while strengthening supplier relationships.

The role leads negotiations, manages RFPs, analyzes spends, and coordinates with cross‑functional teams to qualify parts and implement supplier programs. Travel up to 10% and site-based work at US manufacturing locations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years' experience of progressively responsible job-related experience.
• 3+ years' experience using Microsoft Office, specifically Excel and Word.
• 5+ years' experience well-developed negotiation skills and assessing vendors.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiations and supplier selection.
• Continuously looks for new savings opportunities through analysis of data (spend, purchase price variance, etc.) and hands on review of materials in the production areas.
• Leads Request for Proposal (RFP) process with all stakeholders.
• Works with suppliers and internal team members to qualify new parts.
• Negotiates key items with suppliers including pricing, payment terms, lead time, and inventory programs.
• Records and tracks information as required for timely and accurate measure of performance regarding sourcing activities and savings.
• Support the plants to help local teams efficiently resolve escalated issues.
• Leads Procurement NPD activities through preferred supplier programs and RFQ's.
• Identify gaps to goals and collaboratively develop and support countermeasures and activities to close the gap and exceed targets.
• Work to align strategies between commodity and sector localization, plant rationalization and similar
• Works with suppliers to address significant and/or systemic issues with performance (quality, delivery, warranty, etc.) as may be required in support of plant Manufacturing, Purchasing and Quality teams
• Responsible for coordinating with commodity teams, materials, operations, engineering, finance, quality, and field operations to complete projects and achieve expected benefits within project timeline.
• Creates continuous improvement ideation sessions for responsible plants. Generate and evaluate new ideas and opportunities aligned with plant priorities and strategies.
• Participate in and represent Sourcing function during plant or product Value Analysis/Value Engineering (VAVE) or Major Model Review (MMR) events. Responsible for collecting and communicating commodity actions following event.
• Performs additional duties as assigned and participates in special projects as required.

Skills

Negotiation skills

Vendor assessment

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Supplier relationship management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word)

Job description

Ingersoll Rand is seeking a Sourcing Engineer to support North American compressor products. You will partner with engineering teams and suppliers to achieve cost, quality and delivery targets while strengthening supplier relationships.

The role leads negotiations, manages RFPs, analyzes spends, and coordinates with cross‑functional teams to qualify parts and implement supplier programs. Travel up to 10% and site-based work at US manufacturing locations.