Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

The Strategic Sourcing Leader will support Strategic Sourcing in development and execution of projects and strategies to meet or exceed category objectives (quality, delivery, savings, resiliency, working capital).  Using the tools, teams, and processes in place, they will ensure that strategies deliver continuous value to MasterBrand and are communicated both internally and externally to support execution of the vision.ResponsibilitiesLeverage MasterBrand's Strategy Framework and co-lead and participate in cross-functional Category teams to deliver continuous value to the organization; meeting quality, on-time delivery and working capital targets.Communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders (Operations, Materials, Logistics, Quality, commercial team), as well as suppliers, to design and develop best total cost sourcing strategies.Provide support or lead efforts to ensure strategies are consistently updated to reflect the latest internal / external environment.Anchor all efforts and initiatives with MasterBrand Way toolkit and Lean principles.Support the Strategic Sourcing team to ensure strategies, projects, quotes, etc. are delivered on time and prioritized to best meet needs of the company given supplier capabilities and market status.Identify and communicate best total cost improvement initiatives to meet company goals and growth needs.Develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to understand their requirements and capabilities to develop solutions that meet the consumers’ needs by leveraging cost, service, product development, quality and risk management. Ensure data is fact-based so that internal and external vendors can utilize high value analytics to drive their decisions for performance enhancements.Be a key contributor of change management process for product development costing process.Drive the use of new and existing supply market data sources in conjunction with best practices to improve current and long-term operational performance.  Lead the development and execution of a long-term strategy to collect, store and utilize data related to our supply chains.Provide support to ensure that stakeholders, team members, and suppliers are in compliance with all policies and procedures.Work with Sourcing Supply / Supply Development leaders & team to ensure applicable detail on projects is supplied to enable effective execution of projects to meet commitments.