Strategic Sourcing Manager – Power Equipment and Electronics

Mission Critical Group

6h•Remote

About The Position

The Strategic Sourcing Manager develops and executes enterprise category strategies for critical electrical and electronic components supporting Mission Critical Group product platforms, including low- and medium-voltage switchgear and switchboards, e-houses, skids, power-generation control packages, transformer-related products, and other engineered power solutions. The role translates enterprise demand into sourcing, capacity, channel, alternate-source, and supply-continuity strategies to improve supplier performance, reduce total cost, and mitigate long-lead, allocation, obsolescence, and supply risks. This is a high-impact individual contributor position with the authority, visibility, and executive presence expected of a senior sourcing leader. The position owns more than $100 million in direct material spend and serves as MCG's commercial leader and subject-matter expert for assigned categories. It provides indirect leadership to COE sourcing and purchasing professionals while COE teams retain transactional purchasing responsibility. The role primarily works remotely in an office setting, with periodic visits to MCG manufacturing locations and supplier facilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, commodity management, or supply chain leadership within manufacturing or engineered-product environments.
Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise sourcing and category management strategies across multiple sites, business units, or product lines.
Proven experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, long-term supply contracts, supplier partnerships, and risk-sharing arrangements.
Experience leading supplier performance improvement initiatives related to quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.
Demonstrated success delivering material productivity, cost reduction, value engineering, and supplier rationalization initiatives.
Strong understanding of supplier quality systems, supplier development methodologies, contract governance, and supply risk management.
Experience building executive-level supplier relationships and conducting supplier business reviews.
Experience working effectively in multi-site, matrixed, and growth-oriented organizations.
Advanced negotiation, supplier relationship management, and commercial leadership capabilities.
Strong financial acumen, including cost modeling, total cost of ownership analysis, savings validation, and margin impact assessment.
Ability to develop and execute enterprise sourcing and supplier management strategies aligned with business objectives and growth plans.
Advanced analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, including analyzing complex datasets, identifying trends and cost drivers, developing scenarios, and translating insights into commercial actions.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data analysis, including financial, spend, cost, pricing, and supplier-performance analysis.
Ability to effectively leverage AI and modern digital productivity tools, including generative AI, for research, analysis, scenario development, communication, and sourcing workflows while applying appropriate judgment and data governance.
Experience using spend analytics, ERP, business intelligence, and sourcing tools to develop category insights, identify enterprise leverage opportunities, and measure sourcing and supplier performance.
Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment without direct organizational authority.
Demonstrated ability to lead supplier performance improvement initiatives and manage complex supplier relationships.
Advanced presentation development and data-storytelling skills for translating complex information into concise executive-level presentations and recommendations.
High level of accountability, business judgment, and follow-through.
Ability to operate effectively in dynamic, fast-paced, and growth-oriented environments.
Ability to move around a manufacturing plant, including walking, standing, and climbing stairs.
Occasional use of hands to handle or feel objects, tools, or controls.
Ability to lift and carry items up to 25 pounds, following OSHA standards.
Ability to see and hear well enough to navigate the plant safely and communicate effectively.
Successful completion of pre-employment requirements, including a background check and pre-employment drug screening, in accordance with applicable law.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute enterprise category strategies aligned with backlog, commercial pipeline, product platforms, engineering standards, project timing, and manufacturing requirements.
Maintain consolidated demand and market views covering forecasts, historical demand, lead times, product lifecycles, technology changes, supplier capacity, channel availability, pricing, and geopolitical risk.
Develop category roadmaps defining preferred suppliers, qualified alternatives, sourcing gaps, lifecycle risks, milestones, approvals, and executive reporting.
Lead enterprise sourcing events, supplier evaluations, negotiations, contracting strategies, and supplier-selection recommendations.
Negotiate master supply and long-term agreements, pricing programs, capacity commitments, stocking and inventory programs, warranties, rebates, and commercial terms.
Aggregate spend and demand across MCG operating companies and COEs, and deliver validated purchase-price improvement, cost avoidance, productivity, and total-cost-of-ownership reductions.
Develop supplier cost breakdowns, should-cost models, competitive benchmarks, and total-landed-cost analyses; distinguish market-driven changes from supplier-controlled costs and implement indexed or formula-based pricing where appropriate.
Partner with Engineering, Operations, Estimating, and Finance on design-to-cost, value engineering, preferred-component architecture, specification optimization, component standardization, and savings validation.
Convert sales pipeline, backlog, bills of material, manifests, project timing, and long-lead requirements into demand forecasts, capacity plans, sourcing allocations, and project priorities.
Secure and govern forward capacity commitments, allocation entitlements, forecast coverage, supplier commitments, escalation triggers, and recovery milestones.
Develop dual-source, multi-source, contingency, strategic-inventory, demand-backed pre-buy, supplier-stocking, distributor-stocking, and long-lead buffer strategies.
Partner with Engineering to establish preferred components and qualified alternatives while preserving Engineering and Quality ownership of technical and qualification approvals.
Lead commercial aspects of cross-reference and alternate-product strategies and support evaluations of form, fit, function, ratings, customer specifications, certifications, firmware, lifecycle, and product transitions.
Integrate sourcing into proposals, product configuration, design release, new-product introduction, and engineering changes to improve standardization and timely ordering of long-lead components.
Serve as MCG's enterprise commercial relationship owner for assigned strategic OEMs, distributors, and channel partners, and maintain supplier executive relationships.
Lead supplier business reviews, plant visits, capacity reviews, scorecards, corrective actions, audits, investment and expansion discussions, recovery plans, and escalation governance.
Partner with Supplier Quality, Engineering, Operations, and COE teams to close capability gaps, qualify suppliers and alternatives, improve incoming quality, and deliver supplier-performance recovery.
Develop enterprise, regional, and COE-specific channel strategies for OEM-direct, national-distributor, regional-distributor, and project-specific sources.
Align manufacturer and distributor pricing, authorized-channel requirements, stocking, releases, VMI, consignment, and program-specific inventory with validated backlog and pipeline.
Establish governance for cancellations, rescheduling, inventory liability, excess and obsolete materials, last-time buys, product obsolescence, and working-capital exposure.
Provide indirect leadership to COE sourcing and purchasing professionals, aligning priorities and driving execution of enterprise strategies while COE teams retain transactional purchasing responsibility.
Lead MCG-sponsored initiatives through validated COE execution and support COE-led initiatives; provide category input for proposals, customer commitments, contract reviews, SIOP, and clear-to-build readiness.
Integrate category actions with Engineering, Sales, Operations, Quality, Planning, Project Management, Finance, Logistics, and executive stakeholders, and report on negotiations, supplier performance, capacity, cost exposure, risks, and strategic initiatives.