Manager, Strategic Sourcing

We are hiring a Strategic Sourcing Manager to join our Supply Chain team!

DISCOVER

Are you a strategic thinker who enjoys building supplier partnerships, identifying opportunities for cost savings, and influencing business decisions through data and collaboration? If so, this could be your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

As a Strategic Sourcing Manager, you'll play a critical role in developing and executing sourcing strategies that support business objectives across direct and indirect commodities. You'll partner closely with internal stakeholders across engineering, finance, procurement, product management, sales, marketing, and operations to drive value, strengthen supplier performance, and support long-term business growth.

This is a highly strategic leadership role focused on supplier development, commodity strategy, contract management, and cost down initiatives. You'll lead a growing sourcing function while helping shape the future direction of supplier partnerships, cost optimization initiatives, and sourcing capabilities. Success in this role requires a balance of strategic thinking, technical understanding, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams through data-driven decision making.

YOUR RIPPLE EFFECT

• Are you energized by developing strategies that create long-term business value? Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of sourcing and commodity strategies that support organizational objectives and deliver measurable results.
• Do you enjoy building strong supplier partnerships? Establish and maintain strategic relationships with suppliers, conduct supplier visits and audits, evaluate supplier capabilities, and support supplier development initiatives across North America.
• Can you identify opportunities others might miss? Drive cost savings initiatives, analyze market conditions and pricing trends, and develop creative strategies to achieve future savings targets while balancing quality, service, and risk.
• Are you skilled at turning data into action? Monitor commodity markets, raw material pricing trends, and supplier performance to support informed decision making and challenge assumptions with facts and analysis.
• Do you enjoy collaborating across functions? Partner with engineering, procurement, finance, product management, sales, marketing, and other internal teams to ensure sourcing priorities are aligned with business requirements and project objectives.
• Can you lead through influence and develop others? Guide and mentor team members, share sourcing expertise, elevate team capabilities, and foster a collaborative environment focused on continuous improvement and results.
• Do you like bringing new products to market? Lead Supply Chain support for new product introductions, including supplier engagement, negotiations, implementation planning, qualification activities, and Bill of Material accuracy throughout the product development lifecycle.

WHAT YOU BRING

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university.
• 8-10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract management, project management, or related supply chain functions.
• Ability to read and understand technical specifications, Bills of Materials (BOMs), and engineering-related documentation.
• Strong negotiation skills and experience managing supplier agreements and contracts.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Experience with ERP systems; SAP knowledge is helpful.
• Power BI knowledge preferred.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent organization, prioritization, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• Experience leading teams and developing talent preferred.
• APICS, CPSM, CPM, or similar supply chain certifications preferred.
• Visiting suppliers to establish strong partnerships. Travel expectations 20-30%
• Bilingual English/Spanish is preferred but not required.

WHAT YOU’LL GET

At Watkins Wellness, we believe that everyone should ‘Feel good. Live well’. We offer employees the opportunity to join a dynamic, growing industry leader with an outstanding and well-deserved reputation for leadership and commitment to our employees, customers and community. Our employees are eligible to receive exceptional health and wellness benefits, paid time off, company bonus, profit sharing, 401k match, education assistance, and much more. We are proud of the people we are and the products we make — products that make a difference to the health and well-being of others.

We look for candidates that exhibit The Watkins Way (always Ethical, endeavors to be Transparent, embraces Inclusion, welcomes Diverse backgrounds and perspectives, Accommodating, believes in Work-Life Balance, puts Safety First, Accountable, values Relationships, Passionate, Team Player, and Goal Driven).

The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Hiring Range: $97,600.00-$153,230.00

Many factor are taken into consideration in determining pay, including education and location.

Company: Watkins Wellness

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Full time

Watkins (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we strive to employ the most qualified individuals for every position. The Company makes employment decisions only based on merit. It is the Company’s policy to prohibit discrimination in any employment opportunity (including but not limited to recruitment, employment, promotion, salary increases, benefits, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment) based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, pregnancy, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, physical/mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, height, weight or any other such characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. The Company is committed to complying with all applicable laws providing equal employment opportunities. This commitment applies to all people involved in the operations of the Company regardless of where the employee is located and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the Company.

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