Director, Sourcing - T&D

The HUS Director of Sourcing - T&D will provide overall direction to the sourcing team supporting the Transmission and Distribution (T&D) strategic business union of Hubbell Utility Solutions. This role will be the responsibility for managing team of Sourcing Managers, Sourcing Specialist and Sourcing Agents. The role will be accountable to deliver on the Material Cost Reduction targets for the T & D BU. The role will be liaison between Strategic Sourcing and the BU to ensure BU requirements are met and category strategies resolve BU problems. The role will be accountable for on time delivery of the projects and on-ground execution of the category strategy. Secondly, this role will be responsible for developing and leading a suppler sole source de-risk strategy. This position will report to the Senior Director, Sourcing HUS.

Direct Spend:Direct day-to-day responsibility for managing and supporting the efforts of a Sourcing Manager responsible for their respective commodities. This will include working with the internal Strategic Business Unit stakeholders on productivity improvement strategies as well as the ongoing Supply Chain performance management and improvement.

Supplier Risk Mitigation: Develop and execution of risk reducing direct material sourcing strategies for Hubbell Utility Solutions. Primary focus will be the review of casting, forging, stamping, electronics and fiberglass product spend by region and determining action plans to reduce risk while considering total cost of ownership. In addition, this role will provide leadership to the Hubbell Utility Solutions and organization and coordinate with Hubbell Corporate Sourcing to develop best cost options for supply. Workload and strategy creation will be balanced across multiple Hubbell Utility Systems Business Units to create optimum risk reduction.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Familiarity of products, operational processes, and compliance requirements.
• Development of organization strategy for aggregating commodity purchases and selecting competitive sources. This includes for example, mechanical components (plastics molded components, tooling), electronic components, and metal enclosures.
• Creation and management of short, mid, and long-term goals and objectives.
• Creation and improvement of best-practice-based processes (e.g., the leadership of high-value/strategic sourcing efforts).

• Management of business process outsourcing activities.
• Identification, tracking and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Ownership for the productivity initiatives for cost out and value add and value engineering.
• Manage direct reports in and across sourcing, contracting, supplier management, and miscellaneous internalprocurement support activities.
• Budget management for categories under management - and for procurement itself.
• Development of benchmarks and scorecards to be used for continuous improvement.
• Supply Chain Analysis (Capability, Logistics, Geopolitical Risk).
• Create risk rating system to prioritize projects.
• Lead/Support supplier sourcing, evaluation and selection, negotiation, performance monitoring, relationship management, and continuous improvement in support of managed projects.
• Work closely with cross functional leadership to develop and maintain risk reducing strategies.
• Supervise and report on project strategies, supervising spend, business allocation, capability gap analysis and facilitate cross-functional review and evaluation.
• Develop strategies for the mitigation of risk in the supply chain, overall and for specific new product programs.
• Organize and lead regular strategic supplier business reviews.
• Lead sourcing and negotiations, implementation of agreements and integration of key suppliers, performance monitoring, ongoing supplier contract management for assigned commodities on an s needed basis.
• Generate and present project performance metrics to Leadership and project stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

• BS in Business Management, Supply Chain Management, Finance or Engineering
• 5-10 years validated experience or training/equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Working with manufacturing engineering and program management teams.
• Experience in negotiation internal and external to a matrixed corporate environment.
• Materials management, JIT, TCO, and Working Capital.
• CPSM or APICS certification a plus.