Strategic Sourcing Manager

Strategic Sourcing Manager

We are seeking a strategic-minded and results-driven Strategic Sourcing Manager to lead our sourcing operations and optimize procurement strategies. This role is pivotal in managing supplier relationships, tracking metrics and benchmarking, reducing costs, and ensuring the timely and high-quality acquisition of goods and services.

• Develop and implement efficient sourcing and category management strategies.
• Analyze procurement costs and identify opportunities to reduce expenditure.
• Negotiate contracts and secure favorable terms with suppliers and vendors.
• Review and manage supplier contracts for feasibility and compliance.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with key suppliers.
• Conduct market research to identify new sourcing opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to align sourcing with business needs.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis, benchmarking, and risk assessments.
• Lead and develop the procurement team to ensure high performance (includes direct and dotted line people responsibilities).
• Monitor supplier performance and ensure adherence to quality and delivery standards.
• Other tasks as assigned by TAS

• Strategic thinking and business acumen.

• Leadership and team development.

• Vendor relationship management.

• Risk mitigation and cost optimization.

• Proficiency in data analysis and reporting tools.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering or Supply Chain Management.

• 5–7 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management.

• Proven track record in contract negotiation and supplier management.

• Familiarity with sourcing software and ERP systems.

• Strong analytical, financial, and project management skills.

• Excellent communication and negotiation abilities.

• Ability to interpret market trends and make data-driven decisions.

• Certifications such as CPSM, CSCP, or CPM.

• Experience in leading cross-functional teams and managing strategic initiatives.

• Experience in a manufacturing environment.

Position is at least 80% to 95% at a desk working with computer. Ability to exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Performs other physical activities including use of fingers, sitting, stooping, bending, crouching, talking, hearing, and performing repetitive motions.

Visual acuity requirements include color, depth perception and field of vision necessary to prepare and analyze data and figures, operate a computer terminal, and conduct extensive reading. The incumbent will be subject to inside environmental conditions.

Join a team driven to excel in all that we do! When you join TAS, you join a Houston-headquartered company that is part of a large Houston-headquartered publicly traded company, Comfort Systems USA, with a solid reputation built on outstanding value, integrity, and customer focus. We offer our customers and employees the best of both worlds: a small company feel with the resources, talent, process, and international reach of a large company.

TAS delivers innovative packaged modular systems that are engineered and manufactured in one of our Houston, TX facilities and utilized in data centers, power, and commercial/industrial utility system applications. TAS has successfully delivered and commissioned over 520 packages to over 33 countries. The company is headquartered in Houston, TX and has five ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Houston, encompassing 1.2m sq.

feet with proximity to major shipping ports and interstate highways. TAS manages all logistics and transportation facilitating accelerated construction at customer's facilities.

TAS' fastest growing business is the data center market. By applying deep expertise in cooling, thermodynamics, and power, TAS has developed an entire product line that revolutionizes data center delivery.

With our tremendous market potential, advanced technological systems, entrepreneurial…