Sourcing Manager

Steffes•Fargo, ND

47d

About The Position

This position provides strategic leadership for sourcing and supplier development functions, ensuring a resilient, cost-effective, and high-performing supply network. The Sourcing Manager defines and executes spend and category strategies aligned with Steffes’ corporate growth and margin objectives, while driving cost improvement, risk mitigation, and process standardization across all sites. This role leads supplier selection, negotiations, and contract management, establishes KPI governance to monitor sourcing health, and partners cross-functionally to align supply strategies with operational and customer requirements. The Sourcing Manager develops high-performing sourcing and supplier development teams and scalable sourcing practices that support long-term business continuity, operational excellence, and financial performance. Steffes Core Values Trust: We promote growth and long-term success by making wise decisions with trust as an essential component. Respect: We unleash creative talents of our diverse workforce by treating each other the way we would like to be treated. Teamwork: We believe people achieve much more by working together. Integrity: We follow through and keep our word while being open, honest, ethical, and fair. Safety: We view our co-workers as family members of our business and strive to ensure safety for all. Humility: We recognize and appreciate strengths and contributions beyond oneself. We are modest, genuine, and authentic.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Business, Finance, or related field; advanced degree or MBA preferred.
7-10+ years of progressive leadership experience in sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management within an industrial or manufacturing environment.
Demonstrated expertise in strategic sourcing, category management, spend analysis, and cost improvement initiatives.
Proven experience leading supplier selection, negotiations, and contract management with measurable results in cost savings and risk mitigation.
Experience establishing and monitoring KPIs, dashboards, and governance processes to drive sourcing discipline and continuous improvement.
Financial acumen with experience managing spend plans, budgeting, and total landed cost analysis.
Proven ability to build, develop, and lead high-performing sourcing teams within a complex, cross-functional organization.
Strong communication, influencing, and negotiation skills with the ability to partner effectively across operations, engineering, quality, finance, and executive leadership.
Ability to travel up to 25%, or as required
This position requires walking, sitting, or standing to a significant degree
Must have the ability to lift 50 pounds from floor to waist, carry 50 pounds, and push and/or pull up to 20 pounds
Must have the ability to climb ladders and/or stairs.
Stooping, crouching, kneeling, and bending
Handling, feeling, and gripping would be required for some activities
This role may be subject to internal and external environmental conditions
Learn new tasks, remember processes, maintain focus, complete tasks independently, make timely decisions in the context of a workflow, ability to communicate with visitors, ability to complete tasks in situations that have a speed or productivity quota.

Responsibilities

Define and execute corporate sourcing and supplier strategies aligned with Steffes’ corporate growth, margin, and operational objectives
Set the strategic direction for spend management, category strategy, and supplier alignment to ensure supply continuity, competitiveness, and long-term value creation.
Own the corporate spend plan, including spend analysis, cost modeling, and cost improvement initiatives to drive productivity and working capital performance.
Own the corporate spend plan, including spend analysis, cost modeling, and cost improvement initiatives to drive productivity and working capital performance.
Direct contract negotiations and supplier agreements to secure optimal pricing, terms, service levels, and risk protections.
Maintains market awareness of supply and demand dynamics, commodity price trends, geopolitical and macroeconomic factors, logistics market conditions, industry trends and technology shifts, regulatory and compliance changes, industry benchmarking, and other factors impacting availability, quality, pricing, and risk.
Identify, assess, and mitigate risks across the supply network, including financial, geopolitical, capacity, quality, and continuity risks.
Standardize, train, and continuously improve sourcing processes, governance, and best practices across all sites to drive consistency and scale.
Establish and monitor sourcing KPIs, dashboards, and scorecards to measure supplier performance, cost savings, compliance, and overall sourcing health.
Lead cross-functional collaboration with operations, engineering, quality, finance, and logistics to align sourcing strategies with business requirements and customer commitments.
Build, develop, and retain high-performing sourcing teams, fostering continuous improvement and innovation while modeling strong leadership, accountability, and ethical business practices.
Acts as subject matter expert in ERP/SRM implementation and execution for sourcing and supplier management processes and practices.
Maintain a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating collaboratively with customers, suppliers, co-workers, and management.
Helps company meet its Strategic, Quality and Safety objectives.
Other duties may be assigned.