Senior Sourcing Manager - Contract Manufacturing

Location: Chicago, IL, United States; Remote

Join S&C to make an impact on tomorrow’s energy challenges and become an employee-owner

Hours:

8:00 am – 5:00 pm (Monday-Friday) Remote

Compensation:

 At S&C, we are dedicated to providing competitive and equitable compensation for all our team members, and we are committed to transparency in our pay practices. The estimated annual base salary range for this position is $128,084 - $192,126 Individual pay within this salary range is determined by several compensable factors, including performance, knowledge, job-related skills and experience, and relevant education or training. This role is also eligible for S&C’s annual incentive plan (AIP), subject to eligibility criteria.

Join Our Team as a Senior Sourcing Manager - Contract Manufacturing!

Essential Functions:

• Global Sourcing Strategy & Supplier Management: Develop and execute global sourcing and contract manufacturing (PCBAs/Boards) strategies across all S&C value streams, ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives, growth initiatives, and product roadmaps. Serve as S&Cs subject matter expert for contract manufacturing and strategic supplier management, providing leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams. Own relationships with S&Cs most critical global suppliers and contract manufacturing partners, influencing supplier investment decisions, capacity allocation, technology roadmaps, and long-term partnership strategies.

 

• Agility of supply: Lead cross-functional efforts to strengthen supplier capabilities, improve manufacturing readiness, prioritize technical support to address obsolescence, and actively work to develop and implement strategies to effectively reduce risk.

 

• Cross Functional Alignment: Serve as a strategic partner to Operations, Engineering, Quality, Product Management, and functional leadership to align contract manufacturing strategies with S&Cs business objectives, growth initiatives, and product roadmaps. Lead cross-functional effort to establish standard operating procedures for contract manufacturing with clear roles & responsibilities to streamline work, increase speed of execution, and ensure clarity of roles across all functions.

   

• Supplier Selection, Qualification, & Risk Management: Support the Sr. Manager of CM to establish enterprise-wide supplier selection, qualification, risk management strategies across S&Cs global contract manufacturing and electronics supplier network. Lead critical sourcing decisions, supplier assessments, and executive reviews, ensuring suppliers align with S&Cs long-termoperational, financial, and innovation objectives. Anticipate and mitigate strategic supply chain risks while driving supply continuity, capacity assurance, and long-term supplier capability development to support sustainable business growth. 

 

• New Product Development & End-of-Life Component Strategy: Own supplier selection process for new product development initiatives. Coordinate BOM risk calculation updates and associated risk reduction strategies. Establish supplier readiness framework and governing process for meeting project milestones and minimizing risk associated with end-of-life, obsolete or sole source components and late design changes. 

• Sourcing Compliance: Ensure compliance with international trade regulations, corporate policies, and local laws across sourcing activities. Support international business units in ensuring that their sourcing practices are compliant. 

• Supplier Performance & Continuous Improvement: Drive supplier performance improvements across quality, cost, delivery, innovation, and risk management while ensuring a resilient, scalable, and competitive contract manufacturing and electronics supplier network. 

 

• Company Compliance: Understand and comply with all applicable Company policies and rules.

 

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

 

Required  

• 7+ years of demonstrated experience working with electronics suppliers in the manufacturing industry. 

• Proven track record in managing global sourcing projects with complex supply chains, demonstrating deep knowledge of international sourcing strategies and supplier management. 

• Sound understanding of manufacturing processes for industrial products and components. 

• Ability to manage large-scale sourcing projects with minimal oversight, providing direction to cross-functional teams and ensuring project goals are met.

• Great critical thinking, organizational, planning and project management skills, coordinating internal and external resources, creative problem-solving when obstacles arise, and juggling a heavy volume of diverse operational/tactical projects to deadlines and budgets.  

• Great interpersonal skills to establish meaningful relationships built on mutual trust and respect, navigate and resolve conflict, moderate behaviors and foster collaborative working relationships amongst a diverse audience.  

• Sound communication skills, (written, verbal, listening and presentation) able to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels from leadership to support staff. Ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams toward making sound supply management decisions. 

• Sound business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to use and analyze data to drive informed decisions, problem-solve difficult issues and leverage data and learnings to drive continuous improvement.  

• Excellent financial acumen and numerical ability to make strategic financial decisions and participate in negotiations to maximum effectiveness. 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint  

• Ability to travel internationally. 

• Preferred 

• Demonstrated experience using Oracle Sourcing functions

 

Education:

 

Required  

•  Bachelor’s degree in engineering 

Preferred 

•  Master’s degree in business administration (MBA)

 

Preferred 

• Certified in Supply Management (CSM) 

• Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM) 

• Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)

 

No fixed deadline

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About Us

In 1909, S&C Electric Company transformed the delivery of safe, reliable electricity with the invention of the Liquid Power Fuse. Today, as the world faces extreme weather events and the demand for electricity grows, S&C continues to innovate and advance the electrical grid, ensuring reliable and resilient power for homes, communities, and critical infrastructure around the world.

With a diverse, global workforce and core values around integrity, safety, and quality, S&C is a trusted industry leader and top workplace that offers meaningful careers to more than 3,500 team members. As a people-first organization, S&C is committed to fostering an inclusive and collaborative workplace where team members advance their careers through robust talent-development programs and involved leadership. 

S&C’s deeply rooted belief diversity fosters greater creativity, innovation, and success guides the company to advance and sustain a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace culture. 

S&C provides a comprehensive and competitive benefit package that includes the following (eligibility requirements apply):

• Health and Welfare Benefits: Medical & Prescription, Dental, Vision, Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts, , Health Savings Account (HSA), Group Life Insurance, optional Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance, Wellbeing Resources including Employee Assistance Program and Family Forming Benefits (i.e., Adoption and Fertility support)
• Leave Benefits: Vacation Time, Sick Time, Paid Holidays and Company Shutdown days, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, Other Leaves, Paid Parental Time and Military Leave

Retirement Benefits: 401(k) Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (KSOP) offering traditional and Roth 401(k) options and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) component; KSOP participants can receive annual ESOP company contributions of over 11% of eligible earnings (3% Core, up to 3.5% Match, Variable Periodic).

About the Organization

On the (Admin, HR, General Management, Strategy, IT, F&A, HSE, S&L) team, we are responsible for several core business functions and collaborate with departments across S&C to collectively achieve S&Cs mission. We are key players in facilitating how S&C provides long-term value to our employee owners. Always focused on the big picture of revolutionizing the energy sector, we take pride in the impact we have on S&C by empowering our team members to succeed.The Senior Sourcing Manager – Contact Manufacturing is responsible for managing the implementation of the global sourcing strategy for contract manufacturing (PCBAs/Boards) across multiple value streams in alignment with S&C’s long-term business objectives. The role will facilitate the transformation of our business model with the Sr. Sourcing Manager, including resolution of complex supply issues, and establishing supplier evaluation, fit for S&C, readiness and commercial governance processes. This new operating model will align with best practices to facilitate scalable business practices, minimize cost & risk, enhance quality and streamline communication.