Senior Sourcing & Procurement Specialist

Corning•Charlotte, NC

5d•$69,318 - $95,313

About The Position

The Senior Sourcing & Procurement Specialist supports and progressively leads Global Supply Management sourcing activities and cross-functional projects. The role partners with internal stakeholders and suppliers to secure products, equipment, and services that meet business, quality, cost, supply-assurance, and risk-management objectives. It contributes to sourcing plans, competitive sourcing, supplier selection, commercial discussions, implementation, supplier management, category management, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
1–3 years of experience in procurement, purchasing, sourcing, supply chain, project management, operations, finance, engineering, data analytics, or a related business function.
Basic understanding of procurement, purchasing, supply chain, project management, data analytics, or business operations.
Experience working with cross-functional teams and building productive relationships with internal stakeholders.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to organize and interpret data and develop practical recommendations.
Experience supporting projects or business initiatives, including tracking milestones, actions, risks, and stakeholder communications.
Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and the ability to organize, analyze, and present data.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and support several projects simultaneously.
Demonstrated initiative, learning agility, and willingness to take ownership while developing new sourcing capabilities.

Nice To Haves

Exposure to purchasing, sourcing, supplier management, contract administration, or related activities.
Experience supporting project planning, scheduling, tracking, implementation, or process-improvement efforts.
Experience performing data analysis and developing reports, dashboards, or business recommendations.
Experience with SAP, another enterprise resource planning system, or e-sourcing and procurement tools.
Green Belt certification, project-management training, or related continuous-improvement experience.

Responsibilities

Support and progressively lead cross-functional sourcing projects from opportunity identification and scoping through supplier selection, implementation, and results tracking; maintain project plans, milestones, action logs, risks, and stakeholder communications.
Support the development and execution of sourcing plans aligned with business requirements, technical specifications, demand, cost targets, supply-assurance needs, and project timelines.
Support and progressively lead competitive sourcing activities, including requests for information, proposals, and quotations; prepare sourcing packages, coordinate supplier communications, collect responses, and maintain documentation.
Perform spend, market, cost, and supplier analyses; support proposal evaluations against commercial, technical, quality, capacity, service, and risk criteria; develop recommendations for stakeholder review.
Support supplier discussions and commercial negotiations involving price, payment terms, capacity, lead time, productivity, tooling, inventory, warranty, service levels, and other business terms.
Collaborate with Legal, Finance, Engineering, Quality, Operations, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, align priorities, communicate project status, and support sourcing, contracting, and supplier-management activities.
Support post-award implementation, including supplier onboarding, transition planning, qualification activities, purchase-order readiness, schedule tracking, issue resolution, and handoff to ongoing supplier management.
Build productive working relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders; support performance reviews, action plans, capacity and risk reviews, cost-reduction efforts, and issue escalation.
Track and report sourcing project results, including savings, cost avoidance, working-capital improvements, spend under contract, project status, sourcing cycle time, supply-risk reduction, and other agreed measures.
Support category management and continuous improvement by maintaining project pipelines, identifying competitive sourcing and dual-source opportunities, sharing market intelligence, and improving sourcing processes, templates, dashboards, and governance.