Strategic Sourcing Manager, Logistics

At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

Consider applying here, if you want to:   

• Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.   
• Develop lasting relationships with great people.   
• Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.

Strategic Sourcing Manager, Logistics

We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Procurement Manager to lead our Logistics Procurement efforts globally. In this high-impact role, you will play a pivotal part in developing and executing strategic sourcing initiatives to secure top-tier logistics services. This includes managing supplier relationships, negotiating favorable contracts, and ensuring the company achieves optimal value while maintaining the highest standards of quality and service. If you have a proven track record in logistics procurement, a sharp analytical mind, and the ability to collaborate effectively across departments, we want you to join our team and help drive our business forward.

Essential Functions

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Excellence:

• Lead the creation and execution of innovative sourcing strategies for logistics services, covering areas such as warehousing, distribution, and transportation (FTL, LTL, Drayage, Bulk), both domestic and international.
• Identify, evaluate, and engage top-tier suppliers through thorough RFQ/RFP processes, ensuring the best value and service terms are secured for the organization.
• Analyze industry trends, market conditions, and emerging logistics technologies to optimize procurement decisions and forecast future costs.
• Develop long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships with suppliers to ensure consistency, innovation, and predictability in logistics spend.

Supplier Management & Relationship Building:

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with key logistics partners globally, ensuring performance excellence and alignment with our business needs.
• Establish and monitor KPIs to measure supplier performance, driving continuous improvements and ensuring contract compliance.
• Proactively address any performance issues, implementing effective corrective actions to maintain high-quality service levels.

Contract Management & Negotiation:

• Lead the drafting, review, and negotiation of contracts with logistics providers, ensuring they meet company standards, legal requirements, and business objectives.
• Manage contract renewals, renegotiations, and amendments, consistently driving improvements in cost efficiency and service quality.
• Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to ensure all contracts are aligned with the company’s regulatory and policy standards.

Cost Optimization & Financial Stewardship:

• Develop and manage procurement budgets across various logistics categories, ensuring fiscal responsibility and alignment with financial goals.
• Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities without compromising on service quality or operational efficiency.
• Track, report, and communicate savings achieved through strategic procurement efforts, providing insight into the impact of initiatives on the bottom line.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication:

• Partner with key internal stakeholders, including supply chain, operations, finance, and legal, to ensure logistics procurement activities align with broader organizational goals and strategies.
• Communicate the logistics procurement strategy, project updates, and performance metrics to leadership, ensuring alignment and buy-in at all levels.
• Foster a collaborative, innovative, and continuous improvement-driven environment, encouraging cross-functional teams to identify new opportunities for operational enhancement.

Risk Management & Strategic Planning:

• Identify and mitigate potential risks within the logistics supply chain, employing proactive strategies to address emerging challenges.
• Stay ahead of geopolitical, economic, and environmental factors that could impact logistics operations, adjusting strategies accordingly to safeguard business continuity.
• Develop and implement comprehensive contingency plans to ensure resilience in the face of disruptions and maintain uninterrupted supply chain operations.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications:
  • 6 Years  – Experience in Procurement or other related field
  • 6 Years  – Experience in Position
  • 4 Years  – Experience Supervising Employees/ Process

                *experience may include a combination of work experience and education

• Preferred Qualifications:
  • 10+ Years– Experience in Procurement or other related field
  • 10+ Years – Experience working in Position          
  • 6 Years – Experience Supervising Employees/ Process

*experience may include a combination of work experience and education

Competencies

• Creative Thinking: able to think creatively, generating new ideas and approaches to situations.

• Strategic Thinking: able to grasp the big picture and think long-term.
• Recognition of Opportunity: recognizes new opportunities and acts to take advantage of them.
• Quantitative Analysis: skillful in using quantitative analysis to understand business issues. 
• Assertiveness: able to defend a point of view and to confront others appropriately when necessary; unafraid to take controversial positions and challenge the conventional wisdom or status quo.
• Comfort with Risk: takes risks when appropriate, isn’t afraid to innovate and experiment.
• Organizational Priority: able to make decisions that are in the best interest of the organization, even though they cause individual people distress.
• Decisiveness: able to make decisions even in ambiguous situations and without full information.
• Self-Motivation/Time Management: able to determine and prioritize tasks with minimal direction
• Negotiation Skill: skilled in negotiating tactics, effective in utilizing analysis and creative solutions to extract the greatest value for the company. 
• Software Skill: Advanced working knowledge in Microsoft Office (especially in Excel)
• Merit-orientation: judges ideas and people on merit alone, without bias or favoritism.
• Influence: can influence and persuade other people, even without direct authority.
• Political Skill: knows how to get things done within the political framework of an organization.
• Leadership: comfortable taking a leadership role.
• Oral Communication: a skillful public speaker, good at presenting ideas and plans in a persuasive manner.
• Written Communication: a good writer; expresses ideas and positions clearly.
• Cross Cultural: Able to interact effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds.

This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:

• Lead Like an Owner
  • Manages a safe working environment, accurately documents safety related training, and effectively communicates safety incidents
  • Provides strategic input and oversight to departmental projects
  • Makes data driven decisions and develops sustainable solutions
  • Skilled in reducing costs and managing timelines while prioritizing long run impact over short term wins
  • Makes decisions by putting overall company success first before department/individual success
  • Leads/facilitates discussions to get positive outcomes for the customer
  • Makes strategic decisions which prioritize the needs of the customer over departmental/individual goals
• InnovACT
  • Continuously evaluates existing programs and processes, and develops new initiatives to increase efficiency and reduce waste
  • Creates, monitors, and responds to departmental performance metrics to drive continuous improvement
  • Communicates a clear vision, organizes resources effectively, and adjusts the strategy as needed when managing change
• Find a Way
  • Demonstrates ability to think analytically and synthesize complex information
  • Effectively delegates technical tasks to subordinates
  • Works effectively with departments, vendors, and customers to achieve organizational success
  • Identifies opportunities for collaboration in strategic ways
• Empowered to be Great
  • Makes hiring decisions primarily based on culture fit and attitude, and secondarily based on technical expertise
  • Engages in long term talent planning
  • Provides opportunities for the development of all direct reports
  • Understands, identifies, and addresses conflict within own team and between teams

Education

• Minimum Required: 
  • Bachelor's Degree in (Business Administration, Management, Mechanical/Industrial Engineering) or other related field

• Preferred: 
  • Master's Degree in (Business Administration)  or other related field

Certification/License:

• Required:            N/A
• Preferred:           N/A

Foreign Language

• Required:            None Required
• Preferred:           None Required

Typical Compensation Range

Pay Rate Type: Salary

$117,858.39 - $167,948.22 / Yearly

Bonus Target: 10% Annual

Benefits

https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits

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