Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Drinking Water & Filtration

Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Drinking Water & Filtration

Zurn Elkay Water Solutions Corporation is a thriving, values‑driven company focused on doing the right things. We’re a fast‑growing, publicly traded company (NYSE: ZWS) with an enduring reputation for integrity, giving back, and providing an engaging, inclusive environment where careers flourish and grow. Named by Newsweek as One of America’s Most Responsible Companies and an Energage USA Top Workplace, at Zurn Elkay we never forget that our people are at the center of our success.

They are the driving force behind our superior quality, product ingenuity, and exceptional customer experience. With over 100 years of growth, we are one of today’s leading international suppliers of plumbing and water delivery solutions, headquartered in Milwaukee, WI, and operating from 24 locations worldwide.

This position reports to the Category Manager and provides global strategic leadership to find and qualify suppliers for direct material related to New Product Development and other sourcing projects. The role leads cross‑functional teams for activities related to sourcing while collaborating with Engineering, Finance, Quality, Procurement, Manufacturing, China Sourcing Team, and Customer Service to execute all tasks within the project timeline.

Responsibilities include ideation, planning, and implementing multiple sourcing and re‑sourcing projects—both domestic and international—managing supplier relationships, spend and performance analytics, and driving cost‑savings initiatives.

• Maintain the highest-level code of conduct and ethics.
• Lead sourcing channels and internal cross‑functional teams to execute on timeline and action adherence.
• Identify and provide justification using total cost of ownership principles for sourcing and re‑sourcing projects.
• Source assigned commodities and develop global implementation plans to source new items and re‑source existing items to optimize total cost.
• Lead sourcing initiatives to ensure on‑time delivery of project components, assemblies, and/or finished goods by troubleshooting outstanding issues.
• Influence and collaborate on new product development projects guaranteeing on‑time product availability.
• Collaborate with global business units on the preparation of RFPs, RFQs, and lead the screening and supplier selection process.
• Evaluate bids, analyze alternatives, develop negotiation strategy, and make recommendations for contract awards.
• Negotiate and draft supply agreements for domestic and international suppliers, including payment terms, deliveries, price, freight terms, currency exchange, raw material commodity fluctuation, inventory levels.
• Manage relationships between internal and external parties to evaluate and execute recommendations of changes in supply base.
• Publish monthly commodity metrics and provide recommended action plans to the Global Supply Chain that promote continuous process improvement.

• BA/BS degree in business, supply chain, operations management, engineering or finance;
  Master’s degree & CPSM certification highly desired.
• 5+ years of experience in a sourcing role with low‑cost country sourcing experience.
• Experience building RFPs and creating tools to analyze responses.
• Proven success in a change‑management and “stretch” environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, Word, PowerPoint.
• Strong problem‑solving, strategic thinking, oral, written, interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to understand the company’s goals, focus resources to meet or exceed these goals, lead change, and drive projects to completion.
• Expert negotiator, capable of leading in contract negotiations and building strong supplier relationships.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%, both domestically and internationally.

• Decision Quality – making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Manages Complexity – making sense of complex, high‑quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Drives Results – consistently achieving results, even…