Sourcing Manager- Industrial Components

Location: Remote

Job :416

# of Openings:1

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Nobody knows more about adhesives than APPLIED Adhesives. We are passionate about solving complex challenges with innovative adhesive products and offerings. APPLIED is the industry leader in helping manage costs, reduce waste, and make entire operations run more efficiently. From adhesives, equipment, parts, and service, we have you covered.

With world‑class adhesive products, equipment, and parts along with visionary leadership, unparalleled expertise, and an agile, responsive service team, we’re not happy simply staying put. Every day, we leverage our technical expertise and passion for problem solving for the benefit of our customers and the future of our company.

We have countless victories that we could celebrate, but we’re more interested in looking forward than back. We’ve collected the talent and skills to continue innovating new product solutions and applications in emerging industries. We have the fortitude to not only accept challenges, but to seek them out. And we have the confidence and determination to become the most sought‑after adhesive solutions partner.

We are seeking an experienced Sourcing Manager‑ Industrial Components, who will build and lead APPLIED Adhesives’ strategic sourcing capability.

Initially operating as an individual contributor, this role will establish the processes, standards, governance, and tools needed to move sourcing from primarily transactional activity to a disciplined, scalable business capability.

This position will develop category strategies, lead competitive sourcing events and supplier negotiations, strengthen commercial contracts, measure value creation, improve supplier governance, and reduce supply risk. The role will partner closely with Purchasing, Operations, Finance, Legal, Quality, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and other stakeholders to translate business needs into effective sourcing decisions.

As the sourcing function matures, this position may help define the future team structure and may hire, lead, and develop additional sourcing employees.

This is a remote role; candidates must be able to effectively support Central and Eastern time‑zone business hours and only candidates residing in the US will be considered.

The ability to travel 15% of the time is required for this position.

• Develop and execute category and sourcing strategies aligned with company objectives, customer needs, and operational priorities.
• Analyze spend, supplier markets, cost drivers, demand patterns, supply conditions, and risk to identify sourcing opportunities.
• Identify, qualify, and develop domestic and international suppliers for direct materials, manufactured products, equipment, parts, and services.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, bid analysis, supplier selection, and award recommendations using consistent evaluation criteria and documented decision‑making.
• Lead supplier and product consolidation initiatives while maintaining appropriate quality, service, continuity, and commercial safeguards.
• Support new‑product development, integrations, and business‑growth initiatives with early sourcing input and supplier‑market expertise.

• Build fact‑based negotiation strategies, objectives, trade‑offs, approval paths, and fallback positions before engaging suppliers.
• Establish negotiation‑planning tools, approval guidelines, contract templates, and documented commercial standards.

• Deliver measurable cost savings, cost avoidance, working‑capital improvement, risk reduction, quality improvement, service improvement, and supplier innovation.
• Establish clear savings definitions,…