Sourcing Specialist

Visión general:

- Manage Purchasing business for LIXL Americas for selected commodities. Be part of the global Lixil Purchasing team.
- Develop LIXIL Americas commodity strategy in alignment with the Global team to ensure best cost, quality supply and resilience.
- Drive, develop and report activities to achieve overall cost productivity to business
- Run market-tests, negotiate prices and terms with suppliers
- Work with R&D and Engineering team effectively to ensure the implementation of the VAVE measures. Initiate, develop and implement multi-year VAVE, Resource & Negotiation procurement strategies
- Preferably experienced with Thermoplastics, Zinc Die Cast, Machining Brass & Steel components, Brass & Steel Foundries, Packaging, Fasteners, Gaskets ,Rubber categories.
- Operational activities including order placement, tool and delivery follow-up, quality escalations, KPI reporting and alignment with stakeholders
- Prepare and present Sourcing Studies to management
- Facilitate supplier workshops focused on supplier VA/VE, Lean and EDI that support divisions key productivity goals.
- Work with suppliers and divisional teams to increase value, quality, delivery performance and technology solutions to the business; shared metrics include improvements to inventory turns, product lead-times, productivity support, and supplier delivery and quality performance.
- Routinely communicates openly and with integrity across key business stakeholders to align direction.

Understand the Bath & Kitchen industry and market, through Industry Analysis and Supplier analysis.

**Responsabilidades**:
Sourcing specialist will implement sourcing strategies for the commodities they are assigned to manage and support all manufacturing locations within the region for the products in scope. This position is in charge of delivering cost reductions, avoidances, and most importantly value analysis / value engineering (VA/VE) improvement measures which result in higher efficiencies for each business partner associated within the spend areas assigned. Resulting savings will be recorded and reported to executive leadership.

Requisitios:

- Bachelor degree in Engineering or business economics.
- Minimum 5-year experience in Procurement/ Supply Chain.
- Commodity experience in Cardboard, Metals and Thermoplastics.
- Extensive experience in driving productivity through VA/VE
Extensive experience in Contract Negotiation.
- Travel (25%) is required.
- Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint knowledge is essential.
- 3 YEAR EXPERIENCE SAP/BW/ARIBA and Procurement Transaction knowledge.
- Extensive experience developing category long term strategies.
- Fully bilingual in English required (oral and written)
- Work experience in Bath & Kitchen industry is preferred.

EEO Statement:
Declaración de Igualdad de Oportunidades de Empleo: AS Maquila México S. de R.L. de C.V. y American Standard B&K México, son empleadores que ofrecen igualdad de oportunidades. Todos los solicitantes que resulten calificados para la posición para la que apliquen, serán considerados para el empleo sin distinción de raza, color, religión, lugar de origen, ascendencia, orientación sexual, identidad de género, genética, discapacidad, estado civil, edad, estado civil, estado de salud, condición o cualquier otra característica protegida por la ley.