Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Intellihot

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.

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The Senior Supply Chain Specialist provides global strategic leadership to find and qualify suppliers for direct material related to New Product Development and other sourcing projects. This position leads the 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. The Senior Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for ideation, planning and implementing multiple sourcing and re-sourcing projects for both domestic and international suppliers.

This position also manages supplier relationships, spend and performance analytics and drives cost savings initiatives.

• Lead the sourcing channels and internal cross-functional teams to execute timeline and action adherence.
• Identify and provide justification utilizing total cost of ownership principles for sourcing and re-sourcing projects.
• Source assigned commodities, as well as develop global implementation plans to source new items and re-source existing items to optimize total cost suppliers.
• Lead sourcing initiatives to ensure on-time delivery of project components, assemblies and/or finished goods by trouble-shooting outstanding issues.
• Influence and collaborate on new product development projects guaranteeing on-time product availability.
• Collaborate with global business units on the preparation of Request for Proposals (RFPs), Request for Quotations (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, and 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.

• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, operations management, engineering or finance;
  Master's Degree & CPSM certification preferred
• 5+ years of experience in a sourcing role with low cost country sourcing experience
• Experience building Requests for Proposals and creating tools to analyze responses
• Success in a change management and "stretch" environment
• Proficient…