Sr Sourcing Manager

Overview

The Sr. Sourcing Manager will lead a team of Sourcing Specialists in India responsible for executing Direct Material sourcing activities across MKS. The role oversees the sourcing portfolio, sets priorities, allocates resources, provides sourcing and commercial guidance, manages escalations, and develops the team.

What you'll do

• Oversee a portfolio of Direct Material sourcing initiatives across machining, fabrication, electromechanical, and other assigned commodities.
• Coordinate sourcing priorities based on business needs, cost opportunities, NPI requirements, supply risk, and Category Management direction.
• Enable Sourcing Specialists to execute projects by ensuring clear priorities, requirements, resources, and stakeholder support.
• Maintain visibility across sourcing initiatives, including status, milestones, risks, resource constraints, decisions, and financial impact.
• Ensure consistent application of the 6-Gate Sourcing Process, sourcing standards, and approval requirements.
• Orchestrate cross-functional alignment across Category Management, Engineering, Quality, NPI, Procurement, Should-Cost, Supplier Development, and other stakeholders.
• Provide commercial and sourcing guidance on supplier evaluations, complex proposals, negotiations, and supplier selection.
• Ensure cost, capability, capacity, quality, lead time, and supply risk are considered in sourcing decisions.
• Identify and drive opportunities for cost reduction, cost avoidance, localization, supplier diversification, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation.
• Remove barriers and serve as an escalation point for complex supplier, commercial, and cross-functional issues.
• Coach and develop Sourcing Specialists, communicate portfolio performance, and report key risks, opportunities, and decisions requiring leadership attention.

What you'll need

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8–10+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or a related complex manufacturing environment, with strong Direct Materials sourcing experience.
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, supplier evaluation and selection, commercial negotiation, and sourcing governance.
• Experience coordinating and prioritizing multiple sourcing initiatives based on business needs, cost opportunity, complexity, and supply risk.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, manage competing priorities, remove barriers, and drive resolution of escalations.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills, including supplier negotiations, quotation and cost analysis, business cases, and total cost of ownership.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and cost drivers, including machining, fabrication, and electromechanical assembly.
• Experience supporting supplier transitions, qualification, cost reduction, localization, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation initiatives.
• Strong judgment, coaching, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to guide sourcing decisions and support Sourcing Specialists.
• Experience working with global suppliers and teams, ERP/PLM and project management tools.
• Ability to travel up to 30% as needed.

Nice to have

• Master’s Degree or MBA.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement certification or experience.
• Professional certification in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, or Project Management.

Details

• Location: India.
• Work remotely with flexibility to accommodate meetings across global time zones.
• Perform activities such as sitting, standing, or typing for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally move or position objects up to 15 pounds.
• Remain in a stationary position for 40% of the time.
• Communicate information and ideas so others will understand and exchange accurate information.
• Observe documents and details at close range, within a few feet of the observer.
• Operate in a professional office and/or manufacturing environment.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually average.