Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Badger Meter is a leading global water technology company, with a mission to preserve and protect the world's most precious resource. For more than 100 years, cities and businesses have utilized our innovative and trusted solutions to enhance operational efficiency and conserve water while making it more affordable, clean and resilient. Just like every drop counts, at Badger Meter every employee counts because our contributions have a lasting impact on the world!

Here at Badger Meter, we believe that our approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion is the very foundation of our success. Our commitment is reflected in our core values, where we strive to create an environment that celebrates differences, encourages innovation, and ensures that every voice is celebrated and appreciated.

We understand that a diverse team brings a variety of perspectives and ideas, which ultimately fosters creativity and excellence. Badger Meter provides opportunities for career growth and development for every employee by creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where they can make meaningful contributions while preserving the world's most precious resource.

What You Will Contribute :

The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for supporting the Strategic and Tactical initiatives within Badger Meter to support changing business needs. You will assist the Strategic Sourcing Manager with managing vendor relationships, new product development, project implementation, process efficiencies, implementing sourcing strategies, finding new suppliers, and evaluating current suppliers. This role may have direct buying responsibilities of commodities as the procurement department requires. The work performed in this role will support all Safety, Quality, On-time Delivery, Cost, and Continuous improvement activities to achieve Badger Meter's corporate goals.

Job Duties :

• Drive proactive involvement in all functional activities related to sourcing (attending project meetings, working with appropriate individuals to understand new part requirements, etc).
• Review and evaluate supply base by commodity to identify optimal sources for Badger Meter while consolidating to align with strong supply partners.
• Evaluate and analyze supplier capabilities to determine best overall value and recommend suppliers for development of new or improvements to existing products to the Project Teams.
• Perform on-site supplier evaluation visits to assist in the recommendation process.
• Analyze and schedule material purchases utilizing Badger Meter's ERP system and tools.
• Set planning parameters and issue PO's to support production requirements (optimizing the process to maintain short lead-times, low inventory, yet supplying required materials in a timely manner, etc).
• Support Procurement Department in necessary metric reporting or any other required procedure in the department (supplier performance reports, supplier risk analysis reports, supplier capacity reviews, supplier quality certification status, on-time delivery reporting, ppm analysis, etc).
• Up to 15% travel required.

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An Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the "EEO is the Law" poster supplement.

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