Sourcing and Procurement Manager

LIFE SCIENCE OUTSOURCING INC•Somersworth, NH

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Life Science Outsourcing (LSO) is seeking a Sourcing and Procurement Manager to lead strategic sourcing and purchasing across its two sites. The role owns combined spend, applies data-driven analysis to purchasing decisions, negotiates pricing and terms, and leads the buyers responsible for execution. Success is measured by realized savings, spend under contract, supplier consolidation, payment terms, inventory turns, and supplier performance. The position reports with a dotted line to the CEO. Early deliverables include a consolidated view of LSO spend within 90 days, a prioritized savings plan with category targets within 120 days, and a preferred-supplier program plus an updated purchasing policy and approval matrix within nine months. The role covers direct and indirect spend, supplier and contract management, purchasing controls, inventory practices, and coordination with Planning, Production, Quality, Sales, Estimating, Accounts Payable, leadership, and legal counsel. The position is on-site at either the Brea, California or Somersworth, New Hampshire facility. Work is primarily office-based, with regular warehouse and production-floor visits, including ISO-classified cleanroom areas requiring gowning. Travel to supplier sites and the other LSO site is approximately 15 to 25 percent. Standard business hours apply, with occasional flexibility around month-end, audits, and critical supply issues.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Six to eight years of progressive procurement, purchasing, or strategic sourcing experience in manufacturing.
One to two years leading buyers or purchasing staff; senior buyer or team-lead experience is considered.
Documented record of negotiated, measurable savings, including with large or single-source suppliers, in a regulated industry such as medical device, pharmaceutical, or aerospace.
Advanced Excel skills and experience with spend analytics or business-intelligence tools such as Power BI.
Experience cleaning ERP and accounts-payable data.
Working knowledge of ERP and MRP purchasing, including order quantity, reorder point, and safety-stock planning.
Solid command of commercial contract terms, including pricing, payment, warranty, liability, and quality-agreement provisions.
Critical thinking and ability to build cost models and use data to support sourcing decisions.
Ability to negotiate firmly while building lasting supplier relationships.
Leadership, coaching, and accountability skills.
Clear and confident communication, high integrity, and ability to manage multiple priorities with minimal supervision.
Ability to work on-site, visit warehouse and production-floor areas, and gown for ISO-classified cleanroom areas as required.
Ability to travel to supplier sites and the other LSO site approximately 15 to 25 percent.

Nice To Haves

Experience in medical device contract manufacturing under ISO 13485.
ASCM (APICS) CPIM or CSCP certification, or ISM CPSM certification.
Experience with Deacom ERP.
Experience sourcing packaging, sterilization, or cleanroom materials and services.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain a consolidated view of direct, indirect, purchase-order, and non-purchase-order spend across both sites using ERP and accounts payable data.
Analyze spend by category, supplier, and site, and identify savings opportunities across indirect categories including freight, MRO, IT and software, facilities, utilities, waste, temporary labor, insurance, and professional services.
Run RFQs and RFPs; develop should-cost and total-cost-of-ownership comparisons; benchmark market pricing; and document award recommendations.
Consolidate suppliers, establish a preferred-supplier program, reduce off-contract spend, and report realized savings and cost avoidance against annual targets.
Negotiate prices, payment terms, lead times, minimum order quantities, and volume commitments, including with large and single-source suppliers.
Challenge supplier price increases and negotiate tiered pricing, rebates, multi-year agreements, and commodity-indexed pricing for materials such as resin, film, and foil.
Negotiate extended payment terms and early-payment discounts to improve working capital.
Draft and manage supply, pricing, and service agreements with leadership and legal counsel, and maintain a contract calendar for renewals and price increases.
Supervise, train, and develop buyers at both sites; set priorities, assign work, and conduct performance reviews.
Own the purchasing policy and approval matrix, establish buying standards, and drive compliance across departments.
Review requisitions, open purchase orders, quantities, and pricing to prevent waste, and ensure ERP purchase orders are accurate.
Coordinate with Planning and Production to align purchases with MRP demand and schedules, expedite critical materials, and resolve supplier and Accounts Payable discrepancies.
Set order quantities, reorder points, and safety stock while balancing price breaks and minimum order quantities against carrying costs.
Move repeat purchases to blanket orders, scheduled releases, kanban, consignment, or vendor-managed inventory, and consolidate orders and shipments to reduce freight costs.
Work with Planning to prevent excess and obsolete inventory and recover value through returns and restocking credits.
Partner with Sales and Estimating to ensure quoted material costs are accurate and supplier increases are passed through where agreements allow.
Qualify and recommend suppliers with Quality, monitor supplier delivery, quality, responsiveness, and cost, and lead business reviews and improvement plans.
Identify single-source and continuity risks, develop alternate sources, and use combined California and New Hampshire spend in sourcing decisions.
Follow purchasing controls under FDA 21 CFR Part 820 and ISO 13485, including Approved Supplier List requirements, correct specifications and revisions on purchase orders, and SCAR support.
Maintain audit-ready records under Good Documentation Practices, support internal, customer, and registrar audits, and uphold purchasing authority and conflict-of-interest standards.