Senior Sourcing Specialist

Senior Sourcing Specialist

About Optimas

Optimas Solutions is a global distributor of integrated supply chain solutions, and engineering support focused on delivering fasteners, components, industrial and safety supplies to our diverse customers around the world. Our local, on-the-ground teams understand the nuances of every community we serve. This allows us to adapt with our customers and partners as needs evolve, leveraging our footprint to remain at your side while providing a highly personalized level of service and support no matter where you find yourself around the globe. 

Our Values are the THREAD that connects us as one team to ensure that we are accountable for our contributions to the success of our company and customers:

• Teamwork
• Honesty
• Respect
• Excellence
• Accountability
• Drive

To learn more, please visit our website http://www.optimas.com  

Position overview:

The Senior Sourcing Specialist is responsible for sourcing parts and coaching peers in line with the sourcing strategy at the lowest total cost.  Outstanding collaboration with Supply Chain, Sourcing, Sales & Marketing, and Customer Support Teams is critical to achieve the objectives.

If you are looking for a fast-paced environment with lots of opportunities for personal and career growth, then this is the ideal place for you!

Roles and Responsibilities

The Senior Sourcing Specialist will be responsible of the following:

• Delegate incoming work to Sourcing Specialists to balance workload
• Mentor and aid sourcing specialists to help them succeed and grow in their role
• Plan and track RFQs to meet required timelines with discipline and accountability
• Complete gap analysis and total cost analysis on all quotes obtained
• Negotiate cost and lead-times with suppliers
• Leverage analytics and best practices to create process efficiencies
• Collaborate with strategic sourcing team on supplier roadmaps and strategies
• Identify, resolve, and expedite issues to ensure timely completion of tasks
• Communicate with internal customers and external suppliers
• Assist in cost recovery for vendor-related quality/delivery issues

Key Competencies:

The ideal candidate should have the following competencies:

• Ability to coach co-workers to facilitate team proficiency
• Knowledge of materials management, supply chain, and purchasing
• Ability to understand both strategic and tactical goals, and act appropriately

• Experienced negotiator
• Ability to review engineering drawings and specifications
• Understanding of material requirements (dimensional, physical, and chemical)
• Understanding of supply contracts and related terms and conditions
• PC proficient, working knowledge of MS Office applications
• Effective communication skills and a team player
• Good organizational skills – ability to prioritize and problem solve independent of supervision
• Ability to exercise and apply critical thinking to day-to-day situations
• Ability to perform cost/benefit analysis
• Understanding specific cost drivers of those products under his/her responsibility