Supply Chain Strategic Specialist - Experienced
Enpro Industries, Inc.

Job Info

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Title: Supply Chain Strategic Specialist - Experienced

Position Type: Full-Time/Regular

Division: Technetics Semi

Department: Supply Chain

Location: TNG SEMI - Daytona

Job Summary & Job Duties

JOB SUMMARY:
Works closely with the Supply Chain Manager to ensure supply chain operations and key vendors contracts are met. Purpose of this position is to focus on strategic sourcing activities across the supply base, such as capacity constraints, supply chain risk mitigation and cost reduction efforts. Follows structured negotiation processes to conduct supplier negotiations and contracting. Able to manage processes, create efficiencies and controls costs using ERP system and software tools. This position leads individual or group negotiations with suppliers and in new source development as well as continuous improvement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
• Develops cost reduction and sourcing strategies in a purchasing environment characterized by single, sole and source directed suppliers.
• Analyze spend data to identify and execute cost-savings, cost-avoidance, and value-analysis/value engineering (VA/VE) opportunities
• Drives site cost savings initiatives
• Document and report savings
• Promote excellence in sourcing processes across the company
• Provide sourcing support and guidance to buyers, R&D, marketing, and facilities staff in preparation of procurement.
• Evaluate and recommend sourcing opportunities to lower costs and reduce risk
• Support recovery activities and prevent supply disruptions of materials caused by business closures, accounting delays, upstream raw material shortages, etc.
• Negotiation of long term agreements with performance clauses, escalation and de-escalation clauses and year over year performance requirements
• Negotiates high quality at best value. Works with Quality organization to systematically select suppliers and alternative sourcing.
• Responsible for performance of suppliers in coordination with the Quality organization.
• Develops new supply sources where vendors and suppliers are no longer competitive.
• Recommends cost savings initiatives including make-versus-buy analysis or alternate sourcing.
• Proactively and routinely interacts with suppliers and QA to resolve quality issues.
• Establishes new supply chain tools, policies, processes, systems and procedures to achieve world-class performance.
• Responsible for flow-down requirements to suppliers at various levels of product maturity; from RFQ to award of new business opportunity.
• Responsible for negotiating agreements, LTAs, firm fixed pricing, blankets and similar.
• Work with key suppliers on Capacity analysis, surge capacity and lead time reduction plans

Minimum Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in technical field preferred; Business Administration or degree in related field will be considered.
• Minimum 5 years of increasingly complex professional experience in materials management or related field, including a minimum of 3 years' experience of effectively selecting and developing suppliers.
• Must have strong negotiation skills.
• Aerospace sourcing (or similar experience), quality programs ad specifications
• Must have experience in a fast paced discrete manufacturing environment and have experience with global sourcing.
• Ability to create and interpret supply agreements, vendor managed inventory programs, export control laws and regulations, MRP plans, cost benefit analyses and other supply chain processes and procedures.
• Demonstrates the ability to lead and positively influence others.
• Demonstrates a professional and positive attitude.

Preferred Qualifications:

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle and feel material, as well as reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:
This specification is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of employees under his/her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned. Ability to competently perform all the essential duties of the position, with or without reasonable accommodation, demonstrated commitment to effective customer service delivery, and the ability to work productively as a member of a team or work group are basic requirements of all positions at Technetics Group.

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