Senior Sourcing Manager

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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MKS Instruments

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1971

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

Manufacturing • Consulting • Defense

MKS Instruments is a company that enables technologies transforming the world through innovative science and engineering solutions. They deliver foundational technology solutions, including instruments, subsystems, systems, process control solutions, and specialty chemicals, to industries such as semiconductor manufacturing, electronics and packaging, and specialty industrial applications. Their solutions aid in addressing challenges of miniaturization, complexity, and increased performance requirements in advanced device manufacturing and various industrial applications. MKS Instruments partners with customers across fields like environmental monitoring, defense and security, life sciences and research, showcasing a commitment to innovation and technological advancement.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of Sourcing Specialists based in India responsible for Direct Material sourcing activities across MKS • Oversee the broader sourcing portfolio, set priorities, allocate resources, and ensure delivery of cost, supply continuity, and business objectives • Coordinate sourcing priorities based on business needs, cost opportunities, NPI requirements, supply risk, and Category Management direction • Enable Sourcing Specialists to execute projects through clear priorities, requirements, resources, and stakeholder support • Maintain visibility across sourcing initiatives, including status, milestones, risks, resource constraints, decisions, and financial impact • Ensure consistent application of the 6-Gate Sourcing Process, sourcing standards, and approval requirements • Orchestrate cross-functional alignment across Category Management, Engineering, Quality, NPI, Procurement, Should-Cost, Supplier Development, and other stakeholders • Provide commercial and sourcing guidance on supplier evaluations, complex proposals, negotiations, and supplier selection • Drive opportunities for cost reduction, cost avoidance, localization, supplier diversification, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation • Remove barriers and serve as an escalation point for complex supplier, commercial, and cross-functional issues • Coach and develop Sourcing Specialists and communicate portfolio performance, risks, opportunities, and decisions requiring leadership attention • Report to the Global NPI and Sourcing Director

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline • 8–10+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or a related complex manufacturing environment • Strong Direct Materials sourcing experience • Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, supplier evaluation and selection, commercial negotiation, and sourcing governance • Experience coordinating and prioritizing multiple sourcing initiatives based on business needs, cost opportunity, complexity, and supply risk • Ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, manage competing priorities, remove barriers, and drive resolution of escalations • Strong commercial and analytical skills, including supplier negotiations, quotation and cost analysis, business cases, and total cost of ownership • Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and cost drivers, including machining, fabrication, and electromechanical assembly • Experience supporting supplier transitions, qualification, cost reduction, localization, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation initiatives • Strong judgment, coaching, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills • Experience working with global suppliers and teams, ERP/PLM and project management tools • Ability to travel up to 30% as needed • Ability to work remotely with flexibility to accommodate meetings across global time zones • Preferred: Master’s Degree or MBA • Preferred: Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement certification or experience • Preferred: Professional certification in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, or Project Management • Certain positions may require compliance with export control regulations and governmental licensing • Background checks and drug screens may be conducted in accordance with applicable law and company policies

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work remotely with flexibility to accommodate meetings across global time zones • Travel up to 30% as needed • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities • Equal opportunity employment • Background checks and drug screens conducted in accordance with applicable law and company policies