Strategic Sourcing Specialist

We’re looking for a Strategic Sourcing Specialist who can bring structure, discipline, and results to a portfolio of direct raw materials and packaging critical to manufacturing operations.

You will own sourcing execution and supplier performance, driving cost competitiveness, supply reliability, and strong commercial outcomes. This role translates business requirements into actionable sourcing strategies, leads competitive sourcing events, and manages supplier relationships to deliver measurable value.

Operating within Hexion’s Strategic Sourcing Process (SSP), you will partner closely with Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Legal and Commercial teams as required to ensure sourcing decisions are market-informed, risk-managed, and commercially sound.

Success in this role requires an innovative mindset, strong critical thinking, and the ability to collaborate effectively across functions. You will be expected to challenge assumptions, identify opportunities, and work across teams to develop solutions that improve performance and drive meaningful business impact.

This role offers significant ownership and visibility, with the opportunity to directly impact production continuity and overall business performance.

• Lead sourcing events (RFQs/RFPs) for assigned direct material categories
• Analyze spend and market conditions to identify cost reduction and value optimization opportunities
• Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, and contracts aligned to total cost of ownership
• Execute sourcing activities in alignment with Hexion’s Strategic Sourcing Process (SSP)
• Build and manage supplier relationships, including onboarding, performance management, and issue resolution
• Monitor supplier performance against key metrics, including delivery, service, and cost adherence
• Ensure consistent contract coverage and preferred supplier utilization
• Track and evaluate market dynamics and key cost drivers impacting assigned materials
• Partner cross-functionally with Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, and Legal to align sourcing strategies
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance sourcing efficiency and effectiveness
• Ensure sourcing decisions meet safety, regulatory, and contractual requirements

• Consistently demonstrates excellence in driving value through Business Services contract program
• Consistently executes contracts, or aligns changes of contracting intent with stakeholders
• Mentors, consults and engages with others on various levels of contracts and demonstrates commercial diligence
• Proficient in multiple types of contracts and complexity
• Develops contracts with long-term strategic value
• Creatively adjusts clauses benefit ting the company
• Has insights of best-in-class contracts available in the market and organization
• Viewed by stakeholders as strong in contract writing and knowledge

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) both internally and externally
• Ability to successfully complete large negotiations/projects
• Consistently exceeds the pre-established negotiation goals; able to adapt negotiation strategy as needed
• Supports and coaches others in their negotiations
• Viewed as an expert / resource not only on commodity set, but negotiations in general
• Strong Supplier Relationship Management / Partnership with supplier and ability to fully leverage relationship with supplier
• Effectively uses procurement management within multi-level supplier relationships

• Viewed as an expert for a commodity to internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to utilize market knowledge to anticipate impact in the market, other commodities, regions, etc. (i.e. Global Commodity; impact on downstream materials)
• Skillful in converting market knowledge to strategy; innovative
• Market knowledge is proactively shared with peers or business teams and fully integrated into strategies
• Utilizes market knowledge to maximize both short and long-term value
• Serves as role model and mentor to others in use and application of procurement processes and business services or as leader of procurement process
• Perceived as an innovative leader in development/improvement of…