Senior Project Manager, Supply Transformation - The Toro Company

Who Are We?  

With roots dating back to 1914, The Toro Company was built on a tradition of quality and caring relationships. Today, the company is a leading worldwide provider of innovative solutions for the outdoor environment including turf and landscape maintenance, snow and ice management, underground utility construction, rental and specialty construction, and irrigation and outdoor lighting solutions. Through a strong network of professional distributors, dealers, rental stores and retailers in more than 125 countries, we proudly offer a wide range of products across a family of global brands to help golf courses, professional contractors, underground construction professionals, groundskeepers, agricultural growers, rental companies, government and educational institutions, and homeowners – in addition to many leading sports venues and historic sites around the world.

Your Opportunity:

The Senior Project Manager, Supply Transformation is a highly organized and results-driven negotiator who oversees the entire end to end process of part moves between suppliers, ensuring seamless coordination and transition.  The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills, in-depth knowledge of supply chain processes, and experience in working with multiple suppliers and projects simultaneously.  This role will be part of the transformation team at The Toro Company. 

Sponsorship:  

• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

• We are unable to consider OPT, J1 or F1 students, nor sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment VISA at this time.

Work Location: 

• This opportunity is based out of Bloomington, MN international headquarters.  Other job locations and/or fully remote is not available at this time.  

• The current team works 5-days on-site; however will consider a hybrid schedule of 3 days at the Bloomington, MN campus, 2 optional remote days from a home office. 

What Will You Do? 

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for: 

• Promote a collaborative, team-oriented approach with sourcing, engineering, supply chain and business teams in an effort to improve cost, quality, delivery, and reliability while minimizing supply chain related risk. Provide leadership and project management for other sourcing related projects as needed.

• Responsible for building and managing comprehensive project plans for supplier transitions, ensuring all tasks and milestones are clearly defined and tracked. Partner with the Sourcing Managers and Commodity Managers to understand opportunities and identify potential suppliers to quote.

• Gain alignment within the business engineering and marketing groups on supplier transitions and prepare all necessary documents to present proposals to the supplier transition council.  Interface with suppliers to ensure timely RFQ’s and analyze results to develop a recommendation to the business and commodity management.  Ensure Total Cost of Ownership models (TCO) and mindset are used in evaluating all opportunities. Partner with the SQE’s and engineering to plan and budget testing and tooling strategy.

• Create a plan for bridge buys and material coverage with the sourcing specialist for the commodity to ensure there are no interruptions to production.

• Monitor and report out progress on moves and record all savings in the savings tool.

• Proven experience in managing cross-functional teams and coordinating projects across multiple stakeholders.

What Do You Need? 

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• Minimum of five (5) years of combined experience in strategic sourcing or related field and/or project management in an ISC or engineering environment with a global supply base; manufacturing industry preferred.

• Demonstrated leadership skills, including interpersonal relationship building and team facilitation.  Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively and diplom