Strategic Sourcing Advisor

Purpose:

Do you enjoy working in a collaborative culture that values innovation and continuous improvement in products and daily work life activities? In this role, you will be challenged to creatively cultivate systems and analytical approaches that deliver impactful business results. Developing and championing these financial and technology elements are key to achieving the highest levels of service, quality, delivery, and cost optimization.

The Strategic Sourcing Advisor is responsible for improving decision making and action bias through enhanced information availability, clarity, and visibility. This includes the functional ownership of innovative procurement ideas, modeling and problem solving by using supporting supply chain system tools like: PowerBI, GEP, and SAP. Key capabilities for success include financial Make vs Buy analysis and product architecture modeling. In addition to project management of key initiatives and owning the design/enhancement, implementation and user training of our sourcing technology tools. Furthermore, this role will be responsible for development, enhancement, integrity of tools and data to capture KPIs, versatile internal/external scorecards, should cost modeling, outlier analysis and AI research. This role is valuable in facilitating selection, training, and compliance of data reporting across our teams, while having dotted line accountability to a centralized Advanced Analytics COE. This team member will report to the Director of Global Sourcing and Supplier Development.

Responsibilities:

• Financial Make vs. Buy analysis and product architecture modeling.
• Project Management of key sourcing initiatives.
• Design/enhance, implement, standardize, socialize and train new technology, processes, and tools within the Sourcing & Supplier Development team.
• Leading functional data integrity, compliance governance, and availability to accelerate the speed and accuracy of decision making.
• Leading miscellaneous multi-variable analysis in support of process and cost benefits (ex. should cost, outlier analysis, supply chain variable modeling in areas such as NPD/VM cost, OTS, OTD, etc.).
• Facilitate and collaborate in multi-functional teams to ensure sustainability and progress towards goals, both individual and those of the teams.
• Identify problems and confirm root causes to develop and implement countermeasures using CI techniques to address issues with balanced and sustained actions.
• Creatively improve reporting capabilities using various tools, enabling value analytics and summary visualizations (SAP queries, PowerBI).
• Make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that enable successful end results.
• Take initiative to independently perform assignments within required time lines and with limited instruction to achieve the desired results.

This role will be hybrid, with an office in our Carmel, Indiana headquarters. The role will require up to 20% travel outside of the Indianapolis area.

Education & Experience:

• 4 year college degree required in Supply Chain or Finance.
• Multiple years of work experience in related field with demonstrated experience delivering outcomes.
• Strong financial proficiency.
• Excellent data analytics skills and use of continuous improvement tools.
• Ability to effectively communicate and network with all functions and levels of the organization.
• Able to lead, engage, hold accountable and influence others in a team-based environment; clear portfolio and/or demonstration of project manager skill competencies enabling high business impact outcomes.
• Proven technical skills demonstrating the ability to craft, develop, and support organizational analytics platforms systems for timely and optimal decision making, such as PowerBI, Azure DB, MS Office Suite, GEP, SAP, supplier portal solutions, etc.
• Consistent track record in building organizational capability through information visibility, data integrity and training.
• Resiliency and comfortable stretching self and others as a change agent.

At Delta Faucet Company, we view diversity as a mosaic of thoughts and perspectives that come from people's varied cultural backgrounds, experiences, education, career paths and other influences that make each of us unique. For us, inclusion means welcoming differing opinions, collaborating, allowing people to come to work as who they are and recognizing everyone's contributions. We know that in a diverse, inclusive company, ideas flow freely, all voices are heard and all perspectives are valued. Delta Faucet Company continuously strives to be this kind of organization. Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) supports our inherent values, makes us more relevant to customers and consumers and inspires innovation. It is not a goal or a program; it is a vital ingredient in our formula for success and a key to our future growth.

Company: Delta Faucet Company

Full time

Hiring Range: $81,500.00 - $128,040.00

Actual compensation may vary based on various factors including experience, education, geographic location, and/or skills.

Delta Faucet Company (the "Company") is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company's policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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