Role Summary/Purpose:
• The Sourcing Specialist will be responsible for developing, implementing and assisting with the restructuring bills of materials, configuration management processes and request for proposals used to purchase Small Parts & Accessory Kits.
Essential Responsibilities:
• As a Sourcing Specialist, In this role you will use your experience or expertise, in conjunction with Schenectady, Greenville and Houston engineering, to realign our small parts and accessory parts kits bills of materials (BOM’s) to more effectively purchase this equipment.
• You will also develop should cost tools and RFQ templates to drive supplier cost and price transparency.
• You will be required to collaborate aggressively and seamlessly with various external and internal stakeholders.
• These stakeholders include, but are not limited to: suppliers, 3rd party consultants, buyers, commodity leaders, engineers and configuration management personnel to facilitate this task.
In addition, you will:
• Assist with the development and execution long term strategy for MSD Fluid Systems small parts and Accy. parts kits
• Collaborate with engineering and 3rd parties to align parts into kits and/or to buy part directly from OEM’s
• Integrate commodity strategies into the engineering BOM structures to facilitate more impactful purchasing
• Assist with RFQ's and drive supplier selection, development, and overall supplier management with the technology partners or team members and in accordance with the business strategy
• Work closely with the cross functional team and key stakeholders, in order to ensure the growth of this business segment by having strategic agreements in place and operating smoothly
• Analyze strategic opportunities of cross business spend aggregation
• Identify opportunities and leverage on best practices to improve process and tools.