Sourcing Assistant

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Assist in the Sourcing activities supporting the overall objectives, competitive cost advantage and supply base consolidation.
- Support supplier evaluation, selection, development, qualification, and product launch ramp-up aligned with commodity and development strategies.
- Support and proactively look for improvements to the products & process.
- Technically qualify supplier capability and participate in approvals of commodity materials
- Assist in new vendor development for alternate sourcing to reduce the raw material cost.
- Coordination & control of samples evaluation and testing based on drawings, Purchase Specifications and Product Engineering protocols.

**REQUIREMENTS**
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering or equivalent education.
- 5 years of experience in supporting Manager level or above in supply chain, sourcing and/or procurement team.
- Flexible, process-oriented, customer service-driven problem solver with strong reasoning skills.
- Must have strong attention to details & Advanced problem-solving skills
- High level of communication skills in Spanish and English, both written and verbal to be successful.
- Strong desire to collaborate with suppliers & International supply chain experience.
- Microsoft Office experience.
- Experience from the medical devices or pharma industry, alternatively other industries with regulatory regulations and related documentation.

Position based in Reynosa Tamaulipas MX.

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