STRATEGIC SOURCING ANALYST IV (Remote)

Job Overview

TE Connectivity's Strategic Sourcing Teams develop and implement multi-year strategies for assigned commodities, suppliers and parts/services to achieve established goals in supplier quality, delivery, price and service. They align strategy and execution with cross-functional partners such as engineering, manufacturing, product management and functional owners. They execute the competitive bid, negotiation, contracting processes and/or technical continuous improvement for assigned commodities or services; collaborate across Business Units and cross-regions for optimal TE leverage. Our teams demonstrate a high level of expertise in procurement competencies (business/supply chain acumen, negotiation, sourcing strategy development and execution, global savvy, and project and product lifecycle management) and ensure results are delivered compliant with TE policies and procedures. 

Role responsibilities :

• Responsible for defining and implementing the strategy and classification (grow/fix/exit/develop) for the assigned suppliers (mostly small to mid-size suppliers) and commodities – under strong cooperation with Purchasing team, Supplier Quality and Supply Chain Management 
• Responsible for selecting suppliers that best fit to the defined commodity strategy and relevant product sourcing strategy, including biding, awarding, sourcing, and contracting of new suppliers, and approving set up of new suppliers while ensuring number of suppliers is further reduced 
• Responsible for nominating suppliers in RFQ process and gathering offers 
• Gives support to follow up with Suppliers on open orders that were escalated by the purchasing team in line with the Procurement Escalation Process 
• Preparation and leadership of negotiations with suppliers, including solution of contractual issues and providing MOQ and lead-time relevant information to Tactical Buyer 
• Quote and negotiate production material costs to ensure material productivity performance meets or exceeds expectations 
• Helps to identify technical possibilities for cost reductions in cooperation with the engineering department  
• Responsible to screen proactively the market to identify suppliers and demands for the future, to identify development partners and to negotiate contracts with them 
• Participate or leads quarterly business reviews with suppliers, including review of financial, quality, and delivery performance targets and driving the supplier performance matrix 
• Helps to identify technical possibilities (VA/VE) for cost reductions in cooperation with the engineering department  
• Responsible to align required capacities with suppliers 
• Ensures compliance with the global sourcing process and policies for all activities under responsibility 
• Ensures suppliers are compliant with TEs social supplier responsibility and legal requirements, including RoHS, Conflict Minerals 
• Responsible for purchasing system setup (Info Records) and ensure that it is up to date  
• Responsible to recognize proactively weaknesses in processes, to work on process improvements and to update or create the required the required documentation. 
• Helps establish open communication network-bridge input from engineering, product development, manufacturing & suppliers 
• Drives analyses and plausibility of regular reports as well as pushing for data accuracy / clean-up 

What your background should look like:

• 8 + years’ experience in procurement as procurement as Strategic sourcing Analyst or Equivalent position in supply chain 
• Experience in preparation and execution of negotiations plans and processes 
• Sourcing experience for relevant commodities  
• Excellent problem-solving skills, analytical skills, and communication skills  
• Ability to demonstrate strong customer focus and continues improvement attitude 
• Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task  
• Ability to create competitive strategies and plans, broad knowledge of strategies and tactics of the marketplace, knows trends  
• Proven track record in negotiation skills  
• Knowledge of regional and global supplier base for relevant commodities 
• Advanced knowledge in the use of SAP and Microsoft Office 

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