Location: Peoria, IL 25-35% travel especially within US

Role: Sourcing of supplier work. Will travel to suppliers mostly within US but minimal travel to Mexico and overseas. Interact with cross functional teams and suppliers. Interact with other managers, agile managers

Top 3 skills

1. Experience in a previous role with sourcing

2. Light fab/large mining trucks

3. Should cost modelling and supply chain

Client experience with Supplier collaboration, sourcing is good

10 yrs experience with sourcing especially within mining products

With masters, with previous experience in this role, can accept 6 yrs

Lightfab sourcing

Good negotiation skills

Should cost modeling

Supplier audit for assembly test, paint

Familiarity with process improvement and can recommend improvements

PPAP knowledge

Juggle multiple priorities. Ability to prioritize.

good verbal and written communication skills

No experience in mining area is less preferred but not a show stopper

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

- The role provides critical support in terms of Assurance of Supply, Supplier performance work that is supported by the Work group for the enterprise needs.

Typical task breakdown:

- Travel to suppliers and Client plants in USA, Mexico and sometime international locations.

- Weekly travel to Client plants in Decatur

- Work on supporting Critical Suppliers, NPI build parts development, fit up, process improvement work. Collaborate with Category, Agile teams and facility as needed to ensure parts arrive with good quality and on time. Attend meetings as needed. Create / update project plans, reports as needed. Execute travel as needed as well.

Interaction with team:

- Very heavy team interactions with daily meetings Virtual & in person

- This is a very much team role as it has dependencies tied with a wide group of stake holders from Category Managers, Agile Leads, Supplier Development Engineers, Suppliers, Factory.

Work environment:

Client office, Supplier locations.

Technical Skills

(Required)

- Previous Client experience is a significant benefit for this role in Supplier Performance, Collaboration., Agile Sourced Purchasing.

- Full time work experience of minimum of 10 years in USA in Supplier collaboration, Sourcing for Mining products.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a customer service focus

- Product knowledge of Mining Trucks, Negotiating skills, Analytical Thinking.

- Good knowledge of Light Fabs category parts and sourcing

- Experience in should cost modeling, supply chain planning, supplier audits for Assembly, Test and Paint.

- Planning of process automation for suppliers

- Conduct feasibility meetings.

- Good knowledge of excel, advanced excel, PPT, Word

- Previous experience with process improvement, layouts, flow, PPAP, and Advanced Manufacturing process

- Good understanding of procurement process

- Thorough understanding of company policies and procedures, especially those with supplier impact

(Desired)

- APICS CPIM or CSPC National Certification highly desired.

- Six Sigma Green Belt (or) Black Belt

Soft Skills:

(Required)

- Very good written and verbal communication

- Very good negotiation skills and able to respond in short turn around times

- Able to work with multiple stake holders in a matrix team structure.