Senior Sourcing Specialist Job Details

Job Description

Business: Hiab Job Function: Sourcing

Location: Stargard, PL

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Country/Region: PL

Senior Sourcing Specialist

As pioneers and global leader, Hiab is ambitious to write forward our success story, inspiring and shaping our industry. The world in which we operate with our class-leading products, intelligent services and innovative digital solutions is constantly changing.

Purpose of the position

Responsible for source selection and the identification, tracking and implementation of cost saving actions to meet the year on year productivity targets for the respective category using global benchmarking in order to leverage spend and optimize purchasing synergy.

Accountable to create, develop and execute sourcing activities to minimize total acquisition cost whilst maximizing sustainable and operational performance across Hiab to secure benchmark total cost of ownership as well as driving profitability and growth together with high levels of delivery and quality performance.

Manage all sourcing activities and secure demanding and complex multi-tier sourcing arrangements, promoting Supplier Relationship Management and early supplier involvement.

Main tasks and responsibilities

• Identification, development and execution of the sourcing activities across whole-Hiab spend to optimize use of Hiab resources over the E2E product lifecycle addressing strategic commercial sourcing requirements, supplier preferencing, securing early focus on service and end-of-life requirements, supplier consolidation and pipeline to secure continuity of supply and emerging business needs.
• Successful cross-functional participation in New Product Development, Supplier relationship Management (SRM), early supplier involvement and selection with technology development, productivity, total cost reduction make/buy programs, should-cost modeling, and business process and system implementation.
• Support new product development by taking ownership and leading all sourcing deliverables within their own area of responsibility, i.e. fulfillment of technical requirements, quality and delivery assurance deliverables.
• Lead the QAP process with support of Category Supplier Development.
• Manage and improve the Hiab-wide supplier performance using category supplier development resources and QDCI balanced scorecard methodology to monitor and improve performance across key metrics.
• Identifying, tracking and implementing cost saving actions to meet the year on year productivity targets for the category.
• Hiab-wide RFQ preparation, analysis and negotiation/business award according to delegation of authority.
• Develop open book costings, budgets and raw material forecasting for the suppliers within scope.
• Evaluate and develop the supply base. Introduce new suppliers as appropriate to meet the current and future needs of the business, at the same time ensuring continuous improvement in terms of cost, quality, delivery and new product introduction in a global environment.
• Close cooperation with supply planning to support capacity planning and scalability/flexibility planning via development of Logistics agreements.
• Identification and development of new manufacturing partners within BCC countries to support current and future needs of the business.
• Commercial participation in supplier assessments in conjunction with Supplier Development.
• Define and reach targets for Quality, Delivery, Cost, Innovation in the category.
• Services Strategy Execution including branding to increase capture rate and spare part revenues.
• Contract negotiation including payment terms, quality/warranty/logistics annexes and raw material indices.
• Development of supplier risk mitigation programs to ensure minimized disruption within category and business line.
• Provide support to escalate, drive recovery plans and resolve supplier quality/delivery issues using root cause analysis tools & methodology to ensure production requirements are secured.
• Adherence to and maintenance of all relevant Purchasing processes and systems, in line with Central Sourcing and Group Policy.

What youll need to succeed

Education:

Degree Level or Equivalent, with relevant engineering and/or industrial experience.

Experience:

• At least 3 years of relevant global industrial experience (truck, construction machines, mining, agriculture or automotive).
• Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in sourcing roles in an international and multi-site company.
• Experience in working with large suppliers with global multi-site footprint and managing supplier relations and negotiations.
• Project management, cross-functional improvement teams and supplier development programs.
• Experience in using ERP systems.
• Experience in complex steel assemblies.

Language skills:

English requirement: Fluent.

You will be part of

We offer you a position in a global organization where you are challenged with interesting and diverse tasks. These tasks will provide a great opportunity for you to grow professionally.

Interested to join?

If you are excited about this opportunity, please submit your application.

Hiab (Nasdaq Helsinki: HIAB) is a leading provider of smart and sustainable on-road load-handling solutions, committed to delivering the best customer experience every day with the most engaged people and partners. Hiab's premium equipment includes HIAB, EFFER and ARGOS loader cranes, MOFFETT and PRINCETON truck mounted forklifts, LOGLIFT forestry cranes, JONSERED recycling cranes, MULTILIFT skiploaders and hooklifts, GALFAB roll-off cable hoists, ZEPRO, DEL and WALTCO tail lifts, and the service brand HIPERFORM, a comprehensive suite of smart solutions that help maximize the life-cycle value of Hiabs equipment.

As the industry pioneer, Hiab continues to make on-road load-handling smarter, safer and more sustainable to build a better tomorrow. Globally, Hiab is represented on every continent through its extensive network of 3,000 own and partner sales and service locations, enabling delivery to over 100 countries. The company's continuing operations sales in 2024 totalled approximately EUR 1.6 billion and it employs over 4,000 people.

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