Associate Sourcing Specialist (Hydraulic Pump, Motor, & E-Motor) - The Toro Company

 This entry-level position can be located at either our Global HQ in Bloomington MN, or our Ditch Witch HQ in Perry, OK. Please see information on both sites below!

Who Are We?  - Bloomington MN location

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens, to venues such as St Andrews Links and Target Field, we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in. With 100 years of operation under our belt and an average employee tenure of 15 years, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place in the Twin Cities to build a career. 

Who Are We?    - Perry, OK location

At Ditch Witch in Perry, Oklahoma we pride ourselves on being the leading manufacturer in the underground pipe and cable market. Our plant in Perry stands out because it's a place for people to learn and thrive. We enjoy coming to work because our plant is our community, we see our teammates not only as co-workers but as neighbors and family members. All of our locations build the intricate network of machinery that contributes to The Toro Company. We contribute to building communities, cities, and the world.  We invite you to apply and join a team of highly skilled, and highly passionate people. 

The Sourcing Specialist I position is an essential role in the sourcing department.  The Sourcing Specialist I position is an anchor point in the commodity team to ensure optimization of material flow into Toro’s manufacturing sites.  The role works closely with the operational planning group, inventory analysis, supplier quality and their commodity team.  The Sourcing Specialist I position ensures collaboration across the supply partners and commodity team to help the Integrated Supply Chain (ISC) achieve its goals of Operational Excellence and Sustainability.  This role blends tactical and strategic capabilities, with focus on the tactical, within the global sourcing department and significantly impacts the day-to-day operations of The Toro Company (TTC).   This role is highly engaging and can also provide opportunities to explore additional future career paths within our dynamic Sourcing department.

What Will You Do?  

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

• Maintain the supplier relationship through excellent communication to ensure the supplier has alignment with ISC’s goals.
• Understand, and support the category specific strategy. Understand how category strategy connects to ISC strategy.
• Support Sourcing Specialist and Category Manager in long term cost control strategies to fit specific strategic supplier partnerships and commodities.
• Support lead time maintenance and reduction
• Manage purchase requisition queue and ensure purchase orders are placed with suppliers offering fair pricing, outstanding quality, and excellent service. 
• Support multiple areas of the parts procurement process within TTC’s MRP/ERP system.
• Support the TTC’s Escalation process and requests from TTC’s manufacturing plants on supplier deliveries and escalations as required.
• Assist supplier transitions. Participate in supplier exit process standardization and continuous improvement projects.
• Support TTC’s Digital Transformation objectives.
• Assist with the gathering of requested information for Total Cost of Ownership analysis to support the Category Team.
• Support the deviation from specification (DFS) requests from suppliers. Assist supplier quality engineer when needed.
• Ensures engineering change notices (ECN’s) are completed timely.
• Ability to troubleshoot routine issues that arise in moderately complex situations.
• Support various intradepartmental process improvement projects including lean activities, productivity improvements, lead time maintenance and others