Sourcing Lead

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Requirements:

• 6+ years experience
• 2+ years managing a team
• Sourcing experience in multiple industries
• Costing experience with multiple products
• Working directly with customers to drive transactions
• Past history of operating vendor databases and building vendor rating systems
• Extremely resourceful and appropriately frugal

Responsibilities:

• Regular engagement with Business Development & Channel Partners to drive Sourcing to deliver intelligence on client needs
• Clear focus on Business / Transaction outcomes to drive vendor selection, product pricing and commercial terms
• Ensure that vendors are onboarded efficiently
• Prioritize and delegate all open sourcing activities
• Ability to drive authentic relationships with potential and current vendors across all categories
• Help shorten sales cycles from lead to close
• Collaborative mindset and team spirit
• Understand customer needs
• Experience in Private Label, White Label and Custom manufacturing
• Result oriented and over-communicative
• Work in proprietary software application MFDSupply
• Thrive in a startup environment with empowered management and quick turnaround times
• Interactively sharing progress to stakeholders
• Clearly educate customers on Manufactured's product offerings
• Discover new vendors and capabilities across industries and geographies
• Maintain and update the vendor database to reflect accurate information on current and new vendors