Director, Indirect Strategic Sourcing

At STERIS, we help our Customers create a healthier and safer world by providing innovative healthcare and life science product and service solutions around the globe.

Position Summary

 

This individual will lead and manage the sourcing and supply chain strategy for indirect categories for the company. This position will provide sourcing, commodity, and supply base management expertise to ensure that all aspects of the sourcing process meet STERIS’s quality, production, and corporate procurement requirements. Drive leadership in quality, availability, flexibility, and cost. Support all business unit R&D projects and purchasing groups relative to indirect materials and services, supplier selection and supply quality ensuring leveraged and homogeneous best practices. Liaison between business groups to ensure effective business alignment with emphasis on total cost management. Execute business vision and strategy to its full implementation.

What you will be responsible for

 

• Define and execute commodity strategy for indirect spends.
• Support all aspects of Strategic Sourcing, including analyzing the expenditure base, identifying cost reduction projects, performing market analysis, recommending short- and long-term sourcing strategies with defined risk/benefit analysis including insource/outsource decisions.
• Partner with suppliers to develop and implement new methods and procedures to reduce lead times and costs.
• Analyze and build supply chain cost models and re-engineer supply chain processes both externally and internally to improve quality, service levels and overall efficiency.
• Support sourcing efforts and provide expertise for new capital equipment initiatives, new and sustaining engineering projects, and dual sourcing activities.
• Ensure that the sourcing documentation and daily operation meets the guidelines and criteria established by STERIS’s legal counsel.
• Coordinate activity with the appropriate STERIS departments and suppliers to comply with appropriate governmental and other certification agencies (e.g., ASME, FDA, ISO) as required.
• Identify and evaluate critical positions within the procurement function and establish strategies to develop a strong talent pool.
• In conjunction with the Planning Directors, will operate to limit the inventory obligation of STERIS but meet the flexibility of Manufacturing and Service to satisfy the STERIS’s Customer requirements. 
• Lead cross-functional dual-sourcing team comprised of Sourcing, Purchasing, Engineering, and Quality representatives to target critical, sole-sourced materials and services for dual sourcing initiatives to improve flexibility and reduce risk.
• Use understanding of others to create advantages in negotiations; uses leverage to best long-term advantage.
• Develop supplier rationalization strategy, cost analysis, commodity cost targeting and basic economic forecasting.
• Support supplier diversity by developing and maintaining a diverse supply base. This includes supporting Matchmaker events, offering quoting activities, and tracking/growing diverse spend in accordance with corporate objectives.
• Work with suppliers and operations with identifying and implementing sustainability/green projects.
• Support all necessary supplier audits including commercial, financial, and technical to ensure that STERIS maintains and continues to develop a robust and capable supply base.
• Other duties as assigned.
   

 

What you will need to be successful

 

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of experience in sourcing/procurement environment, including 5+ years of management experience. 
• 5+ years of experience in an international manufacturing environment in a technical field is a plus. 
• Strong negotiation skills and experience structuring contracts. 
• Proven experience in identifying, establishing, and cultivating long-term, strategic supplier relationships. 
• Demonstrated knowledge/experience in advanced operational practices (i.e., Lean, Six Sigma).
• Knowledge/experience in MRP, JIT, SPC, EDI required. 
• Very strong management skills and leadership capabilities.
   

What we off you

 

The opportunity to join a company that will invest in you for the long-term. STERIS couldn’t be where it is today without our incredible people. That’s why we share in our success together by rewarding you for your hard work. Hiring people who are in it for the long run with STERIS is our ultimate goal. We do this by providing: 

 

 

• Competitive pay
• Annual merit bonus and incentive plans
• Medical, vision, prescription, dental and life insurance
• 401(k) with a company match
• Paid vacation time and paid holidays