Strategic Sourcing Manager - Resin

What You’ll Do

Your future starts here! The Sourcing Manager will drive supply chain excellence by managing a $90M resin category spend. This role will lead sourcing strategies for polymers and plastics, collaborating across Manufacturing, Finance, and Customer Service to optimize material costs and supplier performance.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a Category/Supplier Strategies for defined product material groups specifically focusing on resin, plastics, and engineered polymers.
• Negotiate long term Supplier Agreements and Consignment/Stocking Programs to support key Royal and Customer requirements.
• Manages supplier negotiations and reduces total cost to improve margins and support revenue growth per annual cost improvement (CIP) targets.
• Provide timely supplier quotations for potential future business opportunities.
• Organize Supplier Business Reviews with key Royal stakeholders.
• Participate in company-wide A3, Project Management Teams, and other Continuous Improvement efforts.
• Ensure compliance to Company regulatory processes, and procedures.
• Review market trends and analysis to ensure best total cost offering for the Customer objectives.
• Support the activities of the Customer Business Units with New Product Development, Supplier Selection, and project launch deliverables.  Assist Engineering with the development of product specifications and substitute materials.
• Assist Engineering with the development of product specifications and substitute materials (e.g., qualifying alternative resin grades, regrind usage, or sustainable polymers).
• Review performance metrics for comparison and evaluation of supplier performance factors to implement needed action plans for business continuity.  Support Supplier Quality on critical problem resolution.
• Manage critical engineering change requests (MIS) and material obsolescence.
• Ensure compliance to Company regulatory processes, and procedures.
• Demonstrate Royal’s Core Values in all interpersonal interactions.

What You’ll Bring

Qualifications:

• Bachelor or Master’s in Purchasing, Business, or Supply Chain.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in Manufacturing with Strategic Sourcing, Purchasing, or Commodity Management.
• Deep knowledge in Resin categories (e.g., commodity plastics, engineered resins, colorants/masterbatches, and polymers)
• Knowledge in Metals and Decorative categories (Paint, color, fabric)
• Knowledge of ERP Demand Management software.
• Organize internal Category reviews to assure alignment across the Company.
• Analytical/accurate with data collection and reporting.
• Service oriented, goal driven, ability to manage multiple tasks with fast paced team environment
• Create workload balance and shared knowledge for risk mitigation.
• Very analytical/accurate with data collection and reporting.
• Service oriented, goal driven, ability to manage multiple tasks.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong Customer focus with the ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the business.
• Creative problem solving and time management skills.