Sourcing Specialist I _ The Toro Company

The Toro Company•Bloomington, MN

22h•Hybrid

About The Position

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 accuracy of purchasing data, managing sourcing workflows, and maintaining essential master data. 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, overseeing supplier communications, RFQ processes, invoice resolution, compliance workflows, and sourcing documentation to enable efficient purchasing operations, alignment with commodity strategy and a meaningful impact on 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.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree preferred in Supply Chain Management, Operations or Engineering with 0+ years of professional experience.
Sourcing experience or relevant education normally gained by completing degree in supply chain or operations related field preferred.
Self-motivated, ability to work under pressure, manage and prioritize multiple objectives concurrently, attend to details, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment.
Proven ability to analyze situations and accurately take effective actions.
Basic skills in Microsoft Suite, MRP/ERP, Ariba and SAP ®
Ability to maintain composure during rapidly changing situations, remaining focused on the relevant objective.
Capacity to work independently as well as within a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Understanding of manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and market dynamics for assigned commodities.

Responsibilities

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 Category Specialist and Category Manager in long term cost control strategies to fit specific strategic supplier partnerships and commodities.
Support lead time maintenance and reduction
Assist Accounts Payable and Sourcing in resolving blocked invoices tied to incomplete or incorrect data.
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 as assigned.
All other tasks and projects as assigned.