Strategic Sourcing Manager

Daimler TruckPortland, OR
Hybrid

About The Position

Inside the Role We are seeking a dynamic and results driven leader for our Procurement & Supply – NPP (New Product Projects) team. In this role you will lead a team to successfully enable Procurement & Supply target achievement within the CVDS framework & DTNA product projects. This role will support a fast paced, challenging, and complex process, ensuring Procurement & Supply maintains a leadership role supporting engineering products with benchmark cost, quality, and delivery within the supply chain.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of group leader, project leader, supervisor, or management experience
  • Strong leadership, organizational, and communication skills.
  • Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies.
  • Proven ability to collaborative effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
  • Strong executive level communication skills required.
  • Advanced analytical, problem-solving, and project management capabilities.
  • Experience creating executive level presentations.
  • Continuous improvement mindset with a track record of driving process optimization.
  • Proficient Microsoft Office applications.

Nice To Haves

  • 5 years of Procurement, Supply Chain, Project Management, or Manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Managing the coordination & implementation of new product projects.
  • Serve as the Procurement and Supply leader for product projects, accountable for achieving cost targets, supplier readiness, and delivery milestones.
  • Frontload procurement strategies, timelines, and cost targets, ensuring alignment and transparency across Purchasing teams, Controlling, Engineering, and Program Management.
  • Prepare leadership teams and represent Procurement & Supply in key strategic project steering meetings, including PSC, Product Committee, Management Support, Executive Decision Board, and Technical SteCo forums.
  • Develop, manage, and execute project implementation plans in accordance with the CVDS processes.
  • Lead regular steering readiness meetings with all affected DTNA stakeholders to deliver project timelines.
  • Resolve pre-production launch readiness issues.
  • Process owner for Purchasing Steering Committee (PSCM)
  • Lead other Procurement projects where “PMO” methodology supports efficient project target achievement.
  • Manage DTNA Tooling Operations team including: Leading and developing Tooling team members located in Saltillo, MX
  • Managing annual tooling budget of approximately $25M
  • Purchase order and acquisition processes for new tooling
  • Ensuring effective project management of new tooling to support supplier launch readiness and timeline adherence
  • Establishing and maintaining tooling and asset management procedures
  • Managing tooling lifecycle to ensure sustained capability, quality, and delivery performance
  • Conducting tooling and supplier capacity reviews and forecasting

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance is not available for this position.
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