Sourcing Specialist

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Job
Description:

Job Description –
Sourcing Specialist

Key
Responsibilities

1. Strategic Sourcing
& RFQ

• Identify and evaluate new suppliers based on category
  and regional requirements.
  
• Conduct supplier market research and develop supplier
  intelligence.
  
• Manage RFI/RFQ activities, quotation analysis, and commercial evaluation.
  
• Support new supplier onboarding and supplier data
  management using HICX
  / Wabtec systems.
  
• Prepare business cases covering ROI, CAPEX, NRE, and cost impact.
  

2. Project Management

• Maintain project trackers with planned vs. actual milestones.
  
• Conduct regular project reviews and follow up on
  deliverables.
  
• Track cost-reduction initiatives and Supplier Cost Reduction Ideas
  (SCRI).
  
• Initiate and track PPAP requests and deliverables.
  

3. Data &
Documentation

• Maintain commodity, PIR, SFA/master files, and project
  trackers.
  
• Maintain Project
  Savings Tracker (PST) and ensure timely updates/uploads.
  
• Ensure accurate sourcing and project-related data
  across systems.
  

4. Analytics &
Reporting

• Maintain sourcing dashboards and commodity trend
  analysis.
  
• Analyze price increases/decreases and their business
  impact.
  
• Track part-cost data and perform cost analytics.
  
• Analyze Deflation
  / Power BI reports and identify key cost drivers.
  
• Prepare biweekly forecasts based on open POs and demand
  forecasts, including Budget
  vs. PST vs. Gap analysis.
  

5. Cost Reduction
& Sourcing Strategy

• Identify cost-saving opportunities through:
  
• Dual sourcing
  
• Supplier negotiations
  
• SCRI
  
• Should-cost analysis
  
• Supplier benchmarking
  
• Identify and execute sourcing projects to achieve
  targeted cost savings.
  

6. Tactical
Procurement Activities

• Manage sourcing rules and price-feed uploads.
  
• Complete PST uploads and updates.
  
• Initiate PPAP and workflow approval requests.
  
• Coordinate SCM handover, SSS/PID and site approvals.
  
• Support PO
  release for NRE/CAPEX and initial samples.
  

Required Skills

• Experience in Strategic
  Sourcing / Procurement / Supply Chain.
  
• Strong knowledge of RFQ, RFI, quotation analysis and supplier evaluation.
  
• Experience in supplier
  identification, onboarding and supplier management.
  
• Knowledge of PPAP
  and APQP processes.
  
• Understanding of cost
  reduction, should-cost analysis and supplier negotiations.
  
• Strong Excel and data-analysis skills.
  
• Experience with Power
  BI is preferred.
  
• Exposure to SAP
  / HICX / procurement databases or similar tools is an
  advantage.
  
• Strong project tracking, communication and
  stakeholder-management skills.
  

Preferred Candidate
Profile

Good fit: Strategic Sourcing Executive / Sourcing Specialist / Procurement Specialist /
Commodity Buyer / Supplier Development / Cost Analyst with experience in manufacturing, automotive, railway,
industrial engineering or heavy engineering.

Role- Sourcing
Specialist.

Essential
Responsibilities:

RFQ
process

• Category landscaping & Supplier identification
  
• Develop technical and regional supplier market
  intelligence.
  
• RFI (Request for information) from new vendors,
  
• RFQ (Request for quote) from suppliers and quote
  analysis
  
• New Supplier Onboarding and Supplier data management
  (HICX or in any WABTEC database)
  
• Offer evaluation & Business case with ROI,
  CAPEX, NRE details
  

Project
Management

• Project tracker with milestone – Plan v/s actual
  
• Recurring review to track project milestones
  
• Track cost reduction activities / SCRI (supplier
  cost reduction ideas)
  
• Initiate PPAP requests and PPAP deliverables
  tracking.
  

Data
Management

• Maintain commodity tracker for all projects.
  
• Maintain PIR tracker
  
• Master files/SFA
  
• Project savings tracker (PST) upload and maintenance
  

Analytics/
Reporting:

• Sourcing dashboard updates, Commodity trend analysis
  & tracking.
  
• Impact Analysis and Data collections on Price
  increase/decrease
  
• Track part cost data and analytics
  
• Deflation/Power BI report analysis ,Top drivers
  
• Biweekly forecasting based on open PO/forecast – Gap
  v/s Budget v/s PST
  

Strategy

• Identify cost Saving opportunity using levers like
  dual sourcing , SCRI, Should cost etcc.
  
• Achieve target cost saving worth $100k USD for 2024
  
• Identify target cost saving projects worth $250k USD
  for 2025
  

Tactical
activities

• Sourcing Rules, Price Feed upload.
  
• PST Upload
  
• Initiate PPAP requests
  
• Workflow Approval Requests for Site approvals – SCM
  handover / SSS/ PID
  
• PO release or NRE / CAPEX
  
• PO release or Initial samples
  

Why SA Technologies Inc.?

Empowering Work Environment: A Great Place to Work,
especially celebrated as one of the Best Places for Women.

Excellence and Quality: A CMMI Level 5
Company, ensuring operational and service excellence.

Globally Acclaimed: A Microsoft Gold
Partner and Google Partner, with over 20 years of global IT
consulting and Development solutions delivery.

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