Strategic Sourcing Manager, Mexico Site

Business Area: Procurement- Location: Ciudad Juárez, MX- Country: Mexico- Employment type: Full-time**A global job with a great impact**As a **Strategic Sourcing Manager**, you will have the chance to have a great impact on ensuring the right quality of the products and the on-time delivery to the business. With this role, you will help select the rights suppliers and develop our relationships with them in order to keep in the forefront of innovation. You will be assuring the material availability and the capacity for growth while managing and mitigating risks. In addition, you will have the chance to work closely with your local and international colleagues from Denmark and Asia, and also from the US.In this role, you will have the responsibility to lead, administrate and coordinate the procurement services to the Mexican production site in accordance with established and approved specifications and procedures.**Your main objectives will be about**- Hiring, lead and continuously develop the local sourcing team while managing its budget- Planning and leading transfer of suppliers and materials from Asia to Mexico/US- Tracking and following up on plans for change of suppliers- Developing, maintaining, and executing on local direct and indirect spend Category Strategies including:- Analyzing spend patterns, supply market, cost drivers, should-cost, potential synergies across sites and develop category strategies accordingly- Sourcing, RFQ, evaluation, selection, negotiation- Risk Management- Supporting global direct and indirect Category Strategies and cost savings projects- Supporting local manufacturing strategy and KPIs and drive local cost savings projects to meet local year over year PPV targets- Identifying opportunities for cost savings across the local direct and indirect spend categories- Continuing to optimize cash flow by negotiating the best possible payment terms with suppliers- Contract management for local direct & indirect suppliers- Assuring comprehensive contract coverage- Overseeing, monitoring, expediting and reporting supplier and contract performance- Supplier Relationship Management - including generating increased value and quality out of strategic suppliers- Stakeholder Management- Complying with and executing on Responsible Supplier Program- Managing local sourcing team resources for R&D projects to meet project timelines- Process improvement (processes, tools, systems, IT etc)- Acting as expert for sourcing and documentation practices- You will be as a strategic partner for the business to ensure high professional standards within sourcing documenting impact to QHB´s, new guidelines, manuals and completed training sessions- Editing supplier information in Agile (name, quality class etc.)- Approving suppliers/re-evaluate supplier approvals in Agile- Uploading relevant supplier documentation to Agile- Approving suppliers/re-evaluate supplier approvals Documents- Maintaining the Approved Vendor List- Handling NCRs/CAPAs- Representing local sourcing during audits- Being authorized to co-sign MCQD**Your background**You must have at least a Bachelor’s degree preferably or related technical field with more than 5 years related experience in the medical devices manufacturing industry combined with procurement, as well as:- Experience with transfer of suppliers from Asia to Mexico/US- Experience with strategic sourcing- Experience with MRO- Experience with service contracts- Experience from Audits- And an entrepreneurial mindset**Work Environment****Ambu - a visionary and international workplace where your efforts matter**Ambu is a company that expands rapidly and has ambitious growth targets. We meet these targets through interdisciplinary teamwork between motivated and highly skilled employees. Your contributions and efforts are crucial to our success and by joining us you will get the opportunity to work in an international head office in an informal working environment.We offer a wide range of professional, social, and financial employee benefits along with exciting job challenges and career opportunities contributing to your job satisfaction.This is a manufacturing facility and as a result, employees can be exposed potentially to noise, chemicals, fumes, airborne particles, machinery, vibration or other workplace hazards controlled within compliance with current safety and health standards.**When to apply****About Ambu**:Ambu has been bringing the solutions of the future to life since 1937. Today, millions of patients and healthcare professionals worldwide depend on the efficiency, safety and performance of our single-use endoscopy, anaesthesia, and patient monitoring solutions. We continuously look to the future with a commitment to deliver innovative quality products that have a positive impact on patient care and the work of healthcare professionals. Headquartered near Copenhagen in Denmark, Ambu employs approximately 5