Sourcing Category Manager

At Delta Faucet, we are committed to transforming everyday experiences with water through innovative products and exceptional service. As a leader in the plumbing industry, we take pride in our dedication to quality, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. We believe that diverse perspectives strengthen our mission to create solutions that inspire and elevate the lives of all our customers. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds to join us on this journey toward inclusivity and excellence.

Your Role at Delta Faucet

As a Sourcing Category Manager at Delta Faucet Company, you will have direct influence and leadership over sourcing strategies deployed globally to enable leading performance levels across service, cost, quality and working capital returns. You will lead a team of commodity professionals to achieve company objectives through directing key aspects of strategy development, supplier performance metrics, pricing optimization, business agreements, initiative execution, employee coaching and mentoring, etc. You will cultivate professional and collaborative connections with global partners, collaborators and external suppliers. This role reports to the Director of Global Sourcing and Supplier Development.

Responsibilities

• Establishing the vision of the category through development of commodity strategies and execution of action plans for a diversified global supply base
• Team coaching, training & development enabling rewarding careers for our teams and a strong Winning Together environment
• Works closely with cross-functional areas of quality, value management, engineering, marketing, operations and finance to ensure alignment and execution to exceed our goals to win together while proactively ensuring internal alignment
• Implements cost savings using various tools such as: value management, market testing, outlier analysis, building competition, supplier development and improvements
• Keeps current with ongoing changes with international supply chain regulations, currency changes, commodity changes, and code changes required to protect the company’s assets in an always changing market
• Build and sustain positive relationship engagement with suppliers that should be maintained in order to bring in products that consistently meet or exceed Delta’s supplier performance goals.
• Assures awards are done per strategy and assures the best total cost of all new NPD projects
• Leads all aspects of supplier performance for time delivery, defective parts per million, lead time, and PPAP approval metrics and related business practices (i.e. business continuity/risk)
• Leads efforts for early-stage R&D or front-end projects to assure supplier compliance and capabilities
• Supports related cross-functional supply chain and service activities
• Sustains compliance and auditing of department standard work
• Completes timely and reliably on special projects and ad-hoc management requests

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: The ideal candidate will possess a bachelor's degree with an emphasis in Supply Chain, Purchasing, Engineering, Operations or related field and 5+ years of working experience in related field(s) above with Sourcing related application

• 3+ years of management / leadership experience in developing team members
• Proficient use of SAP (or similar ERP), Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI), Supplier Management solutions (GEP)
• Excellent negotiation, problem solving and interpersonal skills
• Understanding of continuous improvement tools (Lean, Six Sigma)
• Ability to influence and work collaboratively in a cross functional team setting
• Desire and aim to be a constant learner and challenger of paradigms to achieve advancing practices for business impact
• Other Considerations: This will be a hybrid role based in the Indianapolis area. Travel required: approximately 10%-15% domestic and 10% international; may vary dependent on activities assigned and lead by team

Why Join Us?

At Delta Faucet Company, our people are our greatest assets. We value different perspectives and fostering an inclusive environment. You’ll have the opportunity to shape the future of our brand, working alongside passionate professionals committed to excellence and innovation. Join us to lead progressive growth and make a significant impact within a leading organization.

Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

• Culture: Recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal opportunities to work on projects cross-company.
• Social Impact: Four employee-led and self-directed Business Resource Groups; Paid volunteer day annually; Employees share their time, skills and talent with charities and nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the globe.

Company: Delta Faucet Company

Full timeHiring Range: $101,100.00 - $158,950.00Actual compensation may vary based on various factors including experience, education, geographic location, and/or skills.

Delta Faucet Company (the “Company”) is an equal opportunity employer and we want to have the best available persons in every job. 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 persons 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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