Strategic Sourcing & Cost Engineer

Aptyx•Remote, OR

About The Position

The Manager, Strategic Sourcing & Cost Engineering is responsible for reducing the total cost of raw materials, purchased components, packaging, and externally provided services across Aptyx. The role leads enterprise material-cost reduction, supplier sourcing, cost modeling, value engineering, and commercial support for customer quotations and new-product programs. An initial priority is developing and executing sourcing strategies for resins and other high-value material categories. The role also supports the Aptyx quote process by obtaining credible supplier quotations for third-party materials, components, packaging, tooling, and outsourced services. The position connects supplier cost to customer quotations, program awards, launch, and actual production cost and margin. It develops category strategies, leads RFQs and negotiations, builds should-cost and resin-cost models, analyzes total landed cost, and maintains a measurable cost-reduction pipeline. It partners with Engineering, Technical Operations, Quality, Finance, Commercial, Program Management, and site Operations to identify and validate value-engineering opportunities while following customer, regulatory, quality, and change-control requirements. The role supports supplier identification and development, sourcing governance, quote and commercialization activities, and supply-risk reduction. It establishes consistent sourcing processes and tools across sites, tracks savings with Finance, communicates recommendations to senior leadership, and supports the development of Aptyx’s strategic sourcing and supply-chain capability. Travel to Aptyx sites and supplier locations is required as needed.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Business, or a related discipline.
Seven or more years of experience in strategic sourcing, cost engineering, supplier development, manufacturing engineering, or procurement within manufacturing.
Demonstrated experience delivering measurable material or purchased-component cost reduction.
Experience conducting RFQs, supplier negotiations, bid analysis, and total-cost modeling.
Strong analytical capability, including converting spend, price, volume, and specification data into executable sourcing actions.
Experience supporting new-product quotations, product launches, or commercialization activities.
Ability to influence technical, commercial, and operational stakeholders without direct authority.
Strong communication, negotiation, and project-management skills.
Proficiency with ERP purchasing data, Excel, and cost-analysis tools.
Willingness to travel to Aptyx sites and supplier locations as required.

Nice To Haves

Engineering or technical degree.
Experience with polymers, engineered resins, extrusion, injection molding, packaging, or other relevant medical-device manufacturing materials.
Experience within medical-device, life-sciences, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
Understanding of supplier qualification, design controls, validation, and formal change-management requirements.
Experience developing index-based material pricing agreements.
Experience with should-cost modeling, value analysis/value engineering, and design-to-cost.
Knowledge of contract manufacturing or CDMO commercial and quotation processes.
Professional certifications such as CPSM, CSCP, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain an enterprise view of raw-material, component, packaging, and outsourced-service spend by supplier, material family, site, and customer program.
Identify and prioritize cost-reduction opportunities based on addressable spend, margin impact, technical feasibility, and implementation risk.
Build category strategies for key resin families and other significant material or service categories.
Lead supplier RFQs, commercial negotiations, volume consolidation, and sourcing events.
Develop resin-cost models that account for resin or feedstock movement, conversion charges, freight, packaging, yield assumptions, rebates, and other commercial factors.
Establish appropriate index-based pricing mechanisms and supplier review processes where applicable.
Analyze total landed cost, including freight, duties, minimum-order quantities, inventory, scrap, lead time, tooling, qualification cost, and supply risk.
Maintain a rolling cost-reduction pipeline with owners, implementation dates, risks, and expected financial impact.
Develop should-cost models for raw materials, purchased components, packaging, and external processes.
Partner with Engineering, Technical Operations, Quality, and site teams on alternative materials or resin grades, specification rationalization, packaging simplification, standardization, yield and scrap improvement, supplier process improvement, make-versus-buy decisions, and alternate providers.
Facilitate value-analysis and value-engineering activities while ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and quality requirements.
Quantify business cases for proposed changes, including savings, implementation cost, validation requirements, timing, and operational risk.
Ensure material, supplier, and specification changes follow established engineering, quality, and customer change-control processes.
Obtain competitive and technically credible supplier quotations for third-party materials, components, packaging, tooling, testing, and outsourced services.
Establish standard RFQ packages defining technical requirements, volumes, timing, quality expectations, and commercial assumptions.
Provide quote teams with supplier-supported costs and relevant tooling/NRE costs, minimum-order quantities, lead times, freight assumptions, volume-break pricing, inflation/index assumptions, supplier and capacity risks, and qualification requirements.
Partner with Commercial, Program Management, and Technical Operations to ensure quote assumptions are realistic and executable.
Maintain traceability from the original customer quote through supplier selection, program launch, and actual production cost.
Analyze quoted-versus-actual purchased cost and use findings to improve future quotation accuracy.
Participate in program reviews and stage gates when external sourcing materially affects cost, timing, or launch risk.
Identify suppliers with the required technical capabilities, capacity, quality systems, and commercial competitiveness.
Coordinate technical and quality assessments with Supplier Quality, Engineering, and site Operations.
Develop alternate and dual-source options for high-risk or high-spend categories.
Partner with suppliers on cost reduction, process capability, lead-time improvement, packaging optimization, and capacity planning.
Support supplier business reviews for strategically important material and service providers.
Escalate significant supplier cost, capacity, delivery, or technical risks before they affect customer commitments.
Develop preferred-supplier recommendations based on total business value rather than price alone.
Establish a consistent Aptyx sourcing and cost-engineering process across sites.
Create standard tools for RFQs, bid comparisons, total-cost analysis, should-cost modeling, supplier selection, and savings tracking.
Build and maintain an accessible database of approved or preferred suppliers, historical quotes, pricing, volume assumptions, tooling/NRE costs, lead times, minimum-order quantities, and pricing-review dates.
Ensure sourcing decisions comply with Aptyx purchasing policies, delegated authority, quality-system requirements, and applicable customer and regulatory obligations.
Partner with Finance to define baselines and distinguish realized P&L savings, purchase-price variance, cost avoidance, working-capital improvement, and one-time benefits.
Present progress through the appropriate ABS and business-review cadence.
Serve as the primary connection between suppliers, Technical Operations, Program Management, Commercial, Quality, Finance, and site Operations for strategic material and external-service sourcing.
Challenge specifications, historical sourcing practices, and site-specific preferences when they prevent enterprise leverage or increase total cost.
Balance cost reduction with quality, customer requirements, delivery, inventory, resilience, and program timing.
Communicate recommendations in clear financial and operational terms to senior leadership.
Support development of a broader Aptyx strategic sourcing and supply-chain capability over time.
Travel to Aptyx sites and supplier locations as required.