Sourcing Specialist
About The Position
Wright Manufacturing is seeking an experienced Sourcing Specialist to join its Purchasing Team in Frederick, Maryland. The role connects suppliers, engineering, and plant operations to support business goals and keep production moving. The Sourcing Specialist helps strengthen the supply chain, improve purchasing processes, and support company growth and profitability. The work influences product quality, production schedules, costs, and customer satisfaction. The position builds supplier relationships, evaluates sourcing options, supports engineering changes and new product development, resolves supplier quality issues and material shortages, and maintains accurate purchasing and part data. It also supports supplier negotiations and cross-functional purchasing and inventory responsibilities.
Requirements
- Three to five years of purchasing experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Advanced system and data analysis skills, including the ability to turn information into practical recommendations.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and Word.
- Ability to work with engineering teams and suppliers on part drawings and specifications.
- Strong problem-solving and numerical skills.
- Experience succeeding in a fast-growing company with changing priorities.
- Ability to collaborate across departments and keep work moving.
- Clear communication, follow-through, professionalism in challenging conversations, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities and use facts and sound judgment to resolve discrepancies and make decisions.
Nice To Haves
- A bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate supplier performance and develop long-term supplier relationships aligned with quality, delivery, and cost objectives.
- Research and evaluate potential suppliers based on pricing, production capacity, financial stability, and quality capabilities.
- Partner with engineering, plant teams, and suppliers on engineering changes, new product development, and cost-reduction initiatives while keeping quality, budgets, and timelines on track.
- Work with engineering, plant personnel, and suppliers to resolve supplier quality issues affecting production.
- Maintain pricing, purchasing and planning parameters, and part records, including setting up new parts and updating existing parts.
- Serve as the first point of contact for parts shortages and coordinate procurement and delivery to support production needs.
- Assist with supplier contracts, pricing, credit terms, and stocking agreements.
- Initiate and support requests for quotation and help evaluate sourcing options.
- Support purchasing, inventory control, and related responsibilities as part of a cross-trained team.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Company-paid life insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Health Savings Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- 401(k) with company match of up to 4% of the employee’s contribution, with full vesting upon eligibility
- Paid leaves starting at 80 hours per year
- 40 hours of paid sick time
- Eight paid holidays
- Voluntary short-term disability insurance
- Supplemental life insurance
- Weekly paychecks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
