Senior Supply Chain Analyst

Job Description:

What Timken makes possible begins with you.
Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next.

A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion.

Position Summary:

The Senior Supply Chain Analyst is a strategic role responsible for managing complex global purchasing initiatives, long-lead-time materials, and high-impact supplier relationships. This position plays a critical part in ensuring supply chain resilience, cost efficiency, and operational excellence across the organization. The ideal candidate will bring deep supply chain expertise, strong analytical capabilities, and a collaborative mindset to drive cross-functional alignment between the facility and corporate teams.

Additionally, this role will mentor and support the development of junior analysts within the department.

Essential Job Duties:

Global Purchasing & Supplier Management:

• Lead purchasing strategies for complex, long-lead-time materials and components from global supply base.
• Assist in the evaluation and onboarding of suppliers, negotiate pricing and terms, and ensure compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
• Manage supplier performance through scorecards, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Strategic Inventory Management & Risk Mitigation:

• Develop and maintain purchasing plans that align with production forecasts and business objectives.
• Identify and mitigate supply chain risks, including geopolitical, logistical, and capacity-related challenges.
• Support target inventory levels, and cost-reduction initiatives through supplier consolidation, competitive quoting, and value engineering.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Serve as a key liaison between the plant and corporate supply chain, engineering, quality, warehouse/receiving, and finance teams.
• Participate in cross-functional projects to support new product introductions, process improvements, and strategic planning.

Data Analysis, Ownership & Process Optimization:

• Take ownership over all purchasing related system master data - source lists, purchasing info records, critical vendor details (pricing, lead time, lot sizing, etc.)
• Analyze supply chain data to identify trends, optimize inventory levels, and improve procurement efficiency.
• Leverage ERP and analytics tools to drive data-informed decision-making and reporting.

Mentorship & Leadership:

• Mentor and provide guidance for junior supply chain analysts, supporting their professional development and performance.
• Share best practices and contribute to building a high-performing, collaborative supply chain team.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or a related field - with 4+ years of relevant experience.
• ERP/SAP experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and Power
  
  BI.
• Experience purchasing inputs for a manufacturing environment.

Preferred:

• Direct experience working with a global supply base.
  • Experience negotiating pricing, terms, lead time, etc.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: APICS certification preferred.

Language Skills:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and complete necessary production forms. Ability to speak effectively with fellow employees and suppliers.

Mathematical Skills:

Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, schedule, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several variables; problem solving ability.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, use hands/arms. The employee is regularly required to talk, hear at conversational level, and smell. The employee is occasionally required to walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift/move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift/move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift/move up to 50 pounds.

Moving/lifting greater than 50 pounds requires assistance from…