Manufacturing Strategic Sourcing Manager (Remote Positions Available)

Location: At the time of posting, remote work is open to employees in the following states Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia (D.C.). For this position candidates located in the Eastern Time Zone are preferred. 

Commitment: Full Time

Impact in this Role

Your role as Fictiv’s Strategic Sourcing Manager will focus on the intelligent sourcing, qualification, and distribution of work to our Manufacturing Partner network (they’re more than just Suppliers). At Fictiv, we believe in creating the world’s premier platform for hardware manufacturing, and you’ll be playing a critical role in making that happen.

In this role, you’ll be using your educational background (degree in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, or Engineering) and experience in supplier sourcing, qualification, onboarding, and development to manage Fictiv’s globally distributed Manufacturing Partner network. We win everyday because of the competitive advantage that our Platform, People, and Partners provides to our customers. 

You’ll forecast Fictiv’s capacity needs by service offering based on Fictiv’s demand forecasts and correspondingly develop onboarding requirements to ensure we are able to meet customer demand while maintaining a healthy distribution of spend across each of our onboarded Manufacturing Partners. You’ll oversee our domestic network of partners that work on 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, injection molding and more. Where necessary, you’ll use your negotiation skills to onboard strategic partners and implement terms to foster long term alignment of business goals.  

You’ll work cross-functionally with our Scheduling team to define the logic for distribution of work to our Manufacturing Partners, our Product Management team when bringing on new service offerings to ensure supply readiness, our Product Management and Business Operations & Systems teams to define requirements for the systems we use to qualify, onboard, provide performance feedback to, and distribute work to our Manufacturing Partners, with our Costing & DFM and International Logistics teams to develop logic for landed cost calculations as an input into our automated platform quoting, and with our Quality team to develop Manufacturing Partner qualification criteria & internal spend distribution frameworks that optimize the likelihood of our Manufacturing Partners delivering products on-time and to specification. 

Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for ensuring we are building tight knit partnerships with our Manufacturing Partners in North America and that we have the right mix, capacity, and capabilities of supply to meet and exceed customers technical, lead time, and cost requirements. You will report to the Manager of Strategic Sourcing.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Forecasting - develop onboarding targets based on sales forecasts and pipeline 
• Agile Onboarding Processes - oversee the development of agile, closed-loop processes to quickly identify new capability and capacity needs and correspondingly qualify partners in support of meeting demand
• Negotiation - Negotiation of terms of relationship (e.g. Manufacturing Service Agreements) with our strategic Manufacturing Partners.
• Supplier Development Initiatives - Propose and oversee the implementation of programs to drive greater Manufacturing Partner engagement
• Manage Fictiv’s domestic supply portfolio, ensuring transparency and optimization of spend
• Generate and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies
• Develop & execute against strategies to drive down COGS & lead time for the procurement of custom mechanical components within Fictiv’s supply chain
• Cooperate with stakeholders to guarantee agreement on terms and processes
• Perform should cost analysis as well as benchmarking (determining different manufacturing cost structures based on local factors such as labor rates)
• Discover and partner with trustworthy vendors and suppliers
• Continuous improvement against the above

Desired Experience

• 3+ years experience as a strategic sourcing manager, global supply manager, procurement manager, or manufacturing engineer with direct experience working with machining, 3DP, molding, or fabrication suppliers
• Familiarity with sourcing and vendor management and relevant software
• Fantastic interpersonal and communication skills (both verbal and written)
• Ability to conduct difficult negotiates and sustain good working relationships
• Comfortable with figures and in collecting, analyzing and interpreting data
• Solid judgement with ability to make good decisions
• Minimum BS degree in mechanical engineering, supply chain management, logistics, engineering or business administration; MS preferred
• Meticulous and detail-oriented
• Excellent project management and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Self-starter, manages time efficiently, able to complete work in a timely manner without active supervision