Manager, Strategic Sourcing

The Strategic Sourcing Manager will support the Strategic Sourcing Leader in developing and executing Category Sourcing Strategy within MasterBrand. Using the tools and processes in place, they will act as a project manager, ensuring project progression that deliver continuous value to MBCI and are well communicated both internally and externally to support execution of the vision.Responsibilities:Support the Strategic Sourcing Leader in leveraging the MBCI Strategic Sourcing Process / Approval standard to generate approved category strategies.Communicate and collaborate with key stakeholders, as well as suppliers, to drive best total cost sourcing strategies, assessing various factors beyond cost and quality.Assist Strategic Sourcing Leader in evaluating and managing supplier partnerships to achieve business objectives effectively. Provide support or lead efforts to ensure strategies are consistently updated to reflect the latest internal / external environment.Support the Strategic Sourcing Leader to ensure strategies, projects, RFIs, RFQs and associated analysis, etc. are delivered on time and prioritized to best meet needs of the company given supplier capabilities and market status.Develop strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to understand their requirements and capabilities to support the Strategic Lead in developing 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.Effectively prioritize and problem solve various business needs as identified or directed by Strategic Sourcing Leader.