Sourcing Manager (f/m)

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Assess potential suppliers to ensure they conform to category, supply chain, and product strategies and meet the company’s quality, cost, and delivery requirements

• Negotiate favorable terms and conditions with suppliers to ensure security of supply, commercial appropriateness, and risk management to generate mutually beneficial agreements that will deliver value

• Select suppliers to provide direct material within a given category of suppliers who substantially conform to the category strategy, provide commercial favorability and reduce risk

• Manage the portfolio of spend for a given category to include financial performance, plan for every part, and understanding of total supply chain

• Analyze total cost structures and implement strategies to reduce procurement risk (financial and otherwise) while maintaining quality and delivery performance to generate best total value for a given category

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

• Minimum 4 years of proven experience 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills both oral and written in a global environment

• Works with legal and compliance team to ensure contract due diligence. Assists in contract development

• Proactively shares knowledge and resources with the team. Meaningfully contributes to accomplishing team goals

• Frames work in terms of financial principles (cost, revenue, etc.). Creates and manages financial reports. Able to use finance analytic tools

• Acquires knowledge through experiential learning, as well as other methods, and shares findings or reflections with others

• Leads negotiations using appropriate strategies. Negotiation results in positive outcomes for the business and supplier. Thinks creatively to optimize deals with suppliers

• Creates or finds appropriate and effective solutions to problems. Uses a systematic approach to solve problems. Effectively implements solutions

• Shares information effectively, is able to affect decisions across different audiences using specialized approaches. Sells own ideas by tying them into the values, needs, aspirations and goals of others

• Able to distill wide sources of information to stakeholders; uses a wide network of resources and contacts to find appropriate information. Root causes inaccurate information, such as old data or hallucinations produced by AI.

• Crafts innovative solutions. Constructively pushes against long-held assumptions in the function

• Manages projects and goals with little assistance. Establishes performance standards and measurements for work. Delivers on value proposition

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN:

• Salary range from 13 000 to 19 000 PLN gross – depending on experience

• Advancement opportunities in international team

• A total rewards package, that includes: private health insurance, life & accidental insurance

• Multisport package

• Meal Vouchers

• Company performance bonus program

• Work-life balance, semi-flexible working time

• PPK: Woodward offers payment to your PPK account up to 4% of your compensation depending on seniority

• Hybrid work model

• Educational support