Procurement Manager

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As Procurement Manager, your goal will be to provide functional process leadership throughout the sourcing lifecycle ensures value addition across business operations. You will also coordinate with purchasing, production control, and logistics teams to improve international sourcing, purchasing, and logistics efficiencies. Implementation of sourcing strategies and continuous process improvements within sourcing and purchasing operations occurs as an individual contributor. 

You will do this by:

• Provide functional process direction throughout the sourcing lifecycle to ensure value is added.\

• Coordinate with purchasing, production control, and logistics teams to improve international sourcing, purchasing, and logistics efficiencies.

• Implement sourcing strategies across sourcing and purchasing functional areas.

• Aggregate corporate demand to leverage total spend and align commodity-specific requirements in partnership with purchasing teams.

• Interface with the supplier base to review production facilities and audit supply chains to ensure compliance.

• Manage supplier relationship processes and continuously improve sourcing workflows and procedures.

• Initiate international supplier quality development protocols, including on-site surveys and Initial Sample Inspection Reports (ISIRs).

• Analyze low-cost provider regions, risk factors, and market trends to provide strategic overviews for business planning.

• Monitor sourcing and purchasing process performance to identify opportunities for efficiency gains.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities. 

You are the kind of person who is/has:

• Analytical

• Detail-Oriented

• Adaptable

• Collaborative

• Proactive

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Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Supply Chain Management, or a related field. Equivalent experience will be considered.

• Seven years of experience in sourcing in a manufacturing environment required. 

• Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location.

• Solid computer skills.

• Demonstrate strong knowledge of international supply chain management, supplier auditing, and logistics workflows.

• Demonstrate ability to analyze, optimize, and standardize cross-functional business processes.

• Demonstrate strong analytical skills for risk assessment, market trend analysis, and spend optimization.

• Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Supply Chain Management, or a related field. Equivalent experience will be considered.

• Seven years of experience in sourcing in a manufacturing environment required. 

• Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location.

• Solid computer skills.

• Demonstrate strong knowledge of international supply chain management, supplier auditing, and logistics workflows.

• Demonstrate ability to analyze, optimize, and standardize cross-functional business processes.

• Demonstrate strong analytical skills for risk assessment, market trend analysis, and spend optimization.

• Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world’s largest producer of engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion battery, standby generator, energy storage system, lawn and turf care products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Billy Goat®, and Branco® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in more than 100 countries on six continents.

Briggs & Stratton is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The Company conducts all employment practices without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. Briggs & Stratton also undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for protected veterans.