Strategic Global Sourcing & Quoting Lead

This role owns the sourcing strategy and full management of purchasing quote cases across the organization, including standard, engineered, per print, value add, domestic, and overseas sourcing requests. This role provides central accountability for quote intake, prioritization, delegation, escalation, and closure, ensuring timely, commercially sound, and executable pricing decisions. This role personally executes and manages engineered and per print quote activity, while also delegating, overseeing, and holding accountability for the completion of all other purchasing quote cases executed by the buying team. This structure is intentional and supports the expectation that the role will demonstrate a builder mindset. Through direct involvement in engineered and complex sourcing work, combined with visibility across all quote activity, this role will serve as a key partner to Purchasing, Sales, and IT in helping define, inform, and evolve a supplier capability database that captures supplier strengths, limitations, and qualifications across all sourcing segments, including standard, value add, and engineered per print applications. The objective of this role is to create a disciplined and scalable quoting and sourcing model that supports revenue growth, protects gross margin, improves responsiveness to Sales, and reduces execution and supply risk, while allowing senior purchasing leadership to focus on supplier strategy, team development, and broader operational priorities. Operating within a capital disciplined environment, this role ensures purchasing decisions are commercially sound, operationally feasible, and aligned with defined margin thresholds and demand visibility. Core Responsibilities Purchasing Quote Case Ownership and Management Own and manage all quote cases entering Purchasing, from intake through final resolution. Serve as the single point of accountability for quote prioritization, delegation, escalation, and closure. Own accountability for the end to end flow, delegation, and completion of non engineered quote cases, without direct execution, ensuring quotes are routed to the appropriate purchasing buyers and completed to defined standards. Assign and coordinate purchasing buyers to execute quote activities based on complexity, urgency, and sourcing requirements. Ensure quote cases progress end to end and do not stall after initial sourcing or supplier feedback. Retain accountability for accuracy, margin alignment, and risk awareness across all quotes. Act as the primary Purchasing liaison for Sales on quote status, constraints, and escalations. Global and Engineered Sourcing Management Personally manage and execute sourcing and quoting activities for engineered, per print, and specialty quote cases. Personally lead supplier engagement, cost development, and commercial decision making for engineered and per print fasteners. Identify and qualify domestic and overseas manufacturers capable of producing engineered and per print fasteners. Lead supplier vetting, quality system review, and production capability assessments where required. Establish multi source options for critical or high risk items to reduce dependency and continuity risk. Maintain awareness of geopolitical, tariff, freight, and supplier capacity exposure. Quoting, Cost Modeling and Commercial Review Ensure consistent cost in full modeling across all quote types, including material, labor, tooling, freight, duties, minimums, and working capital impact. Review and approve commercial assumptions for higher risk or non standard quotes prior to release. Provide structured feedback to Sales on lead time, feasibility, cost drivers, and execution risk. Validate margin thresholds and escalation requirements before commercial commitments are made. Contracting, Negotiation and Supplier Performance Negotiate pricing, payment terms, tooling ownership, minimums, and capacity allocation as required. Structure agreements that balance margin, working capital, and supplier commitment. Establish and review supplier performance scorecards covering quality, responsiveness, and delivery. Proactively address recurring quality, service, or timeline issues. Risk and Lifecycle Management Evaluate customer and forecast risk prior to inventory or tooling commitments. Recommend appropriate sourcing and stocking strategies, including order based, limited stock, or vendor managed approaches. Support exit strategies for low performing, obsolete, or high risk items. Ensure purchasing decisions align with working capital and service level objectives. Cross Functional Integration Partner closely with Sales to align quoting commitments with demand visibility and execution capability. Work with Finance to assess total cost, cash impact, and margin outcomes. Coordinate with Purchasing leadership to ensure alignment with broader sourcing and supplier strategies. Success Metrics Timeliness and completion rate of purchasing quote cases Margin attainment across quoted business Reduction in quote delays, rework, and escalations On time delivery and quality performance of sourced items Reduced supplier concentration and execution risk Controlled working capital deployment tied to validated demand Qualifications At least 3 years required, 4+ years preferred of experience in fastener sourcing and purchasing Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience Experience managing domestic and overseas suppliers Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings Strong cost modeling, negotiation, and commercial judgment skills Familiarity with international freight, duties, and trade compliance ERP experience, ideally Microsoft Dynamics Earnest Machine is an Equal Opportunity Employer that offers a full benefits package including healthcare, dental, vision, life and disability insurance as well as 401k program. #J-18808-Ljbffr Earnest-Machine