Kohler
Sr. Project Leader, Strategic Sourcing Insights
KOHLER, WI, US · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
ExcelSupply ChainLogisticsERPResearchLeadershipProcurement
About the role
- Analyze enterprise spend, products, supplier landscape, and supply chain cost drivers to identify and prioritize initiatives across approximately $2.5B indirect and direct spend.
- Conduct advanced purchasing/spend analytics (including segmentation, supplier consolidation, specification/logistics/process opportunities) and use AI-enabled tools to automate repeatable work and accelerate insight generation and tracking.
- Plan and facilitate plant and supplier workshops, including VAVE and cost-reduction ideation sessions, partnering closely with Engineering and cross-functional teams to convert ideas into actions.
Responsibilities
- You will present recommendations to senior leaders, facilitate plant and supplier workshops (including VAVE), and partner cross-functionally (e.g., Engineering, Marketing, Supply Chain) to deliver results.
- Specific Responsibilities Serve as an internal consultant to identify, shape, and drive value creation initiatives that reduce total cost and improve end-to-end supply chain performance.
- Drive savings/value creation by influencing and enabling execution through category leaders and purchasing teams; this role does not own spend but drives opportunities from identification through realization.
- Prepare and deliver clear, executive-ready recommendations and regular progress updates to senior leadership; drive alignment, decisions, and escalation as needed.
- Build strong relationships with purchasing managers, category leaders, and sourcing directors to align priorities, remove barriers, and sustain pace of delivery.
- Maintain opportunity pipeline, business cases, and realized savings tracking; ensure governance, documentation, and clear handoffs to execution owners.
- Manage sourcing-related risks and incorporate relevant external benchmarks and best practices into sourcing and supply chain recommendations.
- Support and lead additional Strategic Sourcing / SOEx improvement programs (capability, process, standard work) as prioritized by leadership.
- Communicates clearly; builds trust and cross-functional alignment; facilitates workshops and discussions effectively.
- Supports change; identifies and builds critical internal and external relationships.
Benefits
- Understands industry direction, anticipates change, and communicates a compelling vision internally and externally.
Company info
- Operate effectively in a global team, including some flexibility for morning/evening calls across time zones and occasional travel (~40%).
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