Sourcing Specialist

Our client, a growing organization in the chemical manufacturing sector, is seeking a Sourcing Specialist to join their team. The role involves supporting five U.S. manufacturing sites by managing raw materials and indirect categories, ensuring pricing accuracy, controlling supplier performance, and assisting with strategic sourcing initiatives.

Salary Additional Benefits:

• $75,000-$85,000
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401K - company match

Location: Rosenberg or Pasadena, TX

Type of Position: Direct Hire

Responsibilities:

• Maintain accurate, current pricing across all raw material and indirect categories in ERP systems, ensuring purchase order pricing matches contracted and quoted terms.
• Validate price changes, surcharges, and freight terms against supplier agreements and benchmarks before loading them into systems.
• Identify and resolve pricing discrepancies between vendor invoices, purchase orders, and contracts in coordination with Accounts Payable.
• Create and maintain costing templates and landed-cost models, ensuring freight, duty, tariff, fees, and tax are accurately applied for total landed cost accuracy.
• Enrich and clean item and pricing data across multiple plant sites and ERP environments to uphold data integrity standards.
• Fulfill and track sample requests from plants and internal stakeholders, coordinating with suppliers on timing, documentation, and delivery.
• Serve as the central point of contact for incoming requests from suppliers and plants, triaging and routing items to owners and following through to completion.
• Maintain professional, responsive communication with suppliers and internal teams across sites.
• Prepare and circulate recurring pricing reports, including updates on price and lead-time movements for key materials.
• Track surcharges and monitor market indicators, supporting timely responses with suppliers.
• Compile bid comparisons and quote summaries to facilitate sourcing decisions and negotiations.
• Monitor vendor performance against expectations for pricing accuracy, delivery, quality, and responsiveness.
• Manage underperforming vendors through structured processes, escalating issues as needed.
• Support de-sourcing and supplier qualification activities for alternate sources.
• Assist in RFP processes and competitive bidding events, including data collection, supplier outreach, and analysis.
• Develop should-cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) models to aid negotiations.
• Support capital expenditure sourcing activities with quote collection, bid summaries, and supplier evaluations.
• Apply negotiation techniques to secure favorable pricing and terms from suppliers.
• Contribute to cost-reduction initiatives and category strategy development.
• Support inventory management activities, including monitoring slow-moving or excess inventory, coordinating returns or disposals, and maintaining awareness of margin and working capital impacts.
• Assist with the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process by providing pricing, supplier, and data inputs.
• Contribute to system, process, and data consolidation initiatives across multiple sites to enhance supply chain efficiency.
• Provide responsive, as-needed support to plant and supply chain teams during high-activity periods.

Requirements:

• Three or more years of experience in sourcing, procurement, or purchasing, with direct chemical raw material sourcing experience.
• Demonstrated negotiation skills with suppliers.
• Strong working knowledge of ERP systems and advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Proven ability to maintain accurate pricing and master data with high attention to detail.
• Strong organizational skills to prioritize and handle a high volume of requests across multiple sites.
• Well-organized and approachable, with availability to support a busy supply chain environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of building effective relationships and influencing without direct authority.
• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, chemistry, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Ability to travel approximately 10% domestically.

Due to the high volume of applications we typically receive, we regret that we are not able to personally respond to all applications. However, if you are invited to take the next step in the process, you will typically be contacted within one week of submitting your application.