Senior Sourcing Specialist

This position has responsibility for the global strategic sourcing and management process on categories of low to moderately complex or specialized materials and supplies. Responsibilities may include performing advanced analyses for commodity team, assisting Senior Sourcing Manager / Senior Director with complex data gathering and analysis, assisting with developing and executing sourcing strategies, monitoring market movements, negotiating agreements, working with a broad base of business groups, and resolving issues with suppliers.  Position will also work closely with the Senior Sourcing Manager supporting more strategic, complex, or specialized categories

Additional Information

10% Travel

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company’s staff, employees, and business relationships.

• With direction from Senior Sourcing Manager, develop and implement sourcing strategies and plans for assigned packaging categories consistent with global commodity team strategies and all applicable Business Unit operating plans and objectives.  This may include: Develop, issue & analyze RFQ’s for assigned commodities or those areas directed by Senior Sourcing Manager / Senior Director.
• Under direction of Senior Sourcing Manager, as applicable, assist with implementing sourcing agreements which help to increase supply assurance and improve Sherwin-Williams’ competitive position in the market
• Negotiate and resolve any claims or disputes concerning a supplier’s performance on categories managed.
• Develop and implement continuous improvement, cost savings, and risk mitigation projects and initiatives for assigned categories
• Identifying and developing new suppliers
• Ensure uninterrupted supply of materials
• Forecast pricing on assigned categories to provide top management with key information for determining future finished goods pricing and budgetary impacts.
• Management of established pricing (verification, resolution of discrepancies, etc.).
• Develop written category strategies for assigned categories
• Ensure strategy alignment with Package Engineering, Operations, & Marketing with total cost and assured supply objectives
• Communicate to plants sourcing strategies, and market conditions impacting material supply
• Ensure compliance with department policies, procedures and applicable laws, rules, and regulations

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future
• Must have Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• Must have four (4) years Procurement, Supply Chain, Marketing, Technical, Supply Chain, or Operations experience.
• Must have experience to solve complex problems or issues

• Must have proficient experience with Microsoft Office Suite: Excel, Word, Access and Power Point

   

Preferred Qualification:

• Have a have Bachelor’s degree or higher in business field
• Have Six (6) years of work experience with successful Procurement, Supply Chain, Marketing, Technical, Supply Chain, or Operations
• Have experience with being a self-starter with an ability to work with minimal direction/supervision in a fast-paced environment.
• Have experience working with and influencing cross-functional teams and/or having experience in multiple functional areas
• Have experience with track record of increasing responsibility with strong performance and focus on cost savings and security of supply
• Have experience with being proficient with Oracle, QAD, Business Objects, Zycus, OBIEE, Tableau, or AOM
• Have experience with being Multi Lingual

 

At Sherwin-Williams, our purpose is to inspire and improve the world by coloring and protecting what matters. Our paints, coatings and innovative solutions make the places and spaces in our world brighter and stronger. Your skills, talent and passion make it possible to live this purpose, and for customers and our business to achieve great results. Sherwin-Williams is a place that takes its stability, growth and momentum and translates it to possibility for our people. Our people are behind the strength of our success, and we invest and support you in:

Life … with rewards, benefits and the flexibility to enhance your health and well-being
Career … with opportunities to learn, develop new skills