Strategic Sourcing Specialist

San Diego, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Title: Strategic Sourcing Specialist
Location: San Diego
Salary: Competitive

Description:

CK Group are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specailist to join a growing biotechnology business with cutting edge technology. This position is on a full time, permanent basis, to be based in San Diego.

Job Responsibilities:

Strategic Sourcing & Commodity Strategy: Lead the creation and implementation of commodity strategies that align with global and regional business objectives. Ensure sourcing plans support scalability, innovation, and resilience across the supply base.
Supplier Identification & Onboarding: Act as the sourcing focal point for identifying, evaluating, and onboarding suppliers that meet technical, commercial, and compliance requirements. Drive supplier qualification and readiness for new and existing programs.
Global Supply Chain Alignment: Support the development and of global supply chain strategies that enhance performance across People, Quality, Velocity, and Cost. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure sourcing initiatives are integrated into broader supply chain goals.
Risk Management & Business Continuity: Proactively identify and mitigate sourcing risks that could impact operational or strategic goals. Communicate risk scenarios and develop contingency plans to protect business continuity.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal stakeholders including Engineering, Operations, Legal, and Finance to ensure sourcing strategies are aligned with technical requirements, cost targets, and project timelines.
Project Management: Demonstrated ability to effectively manage multiple sourcing and strategic initiatives simultaneously, ensuring timely , stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes. This includes maintaining clear project documentation, proactively identifying risks and dependencies, and regularly reporting progress to leadership and cross-functional teams

Required skills and Experience:

The successful candidate will have working knowledge of the following:

Effective planning techniques and ability to contribute to operational, tactical and strategic planning in support of the overall business plan.
The decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
Successful negotiation concepts and techniques; ability to negotiate successfully across the organization and with external vendors and clients in a constructive and collaborative manner.
Leadership practices and processes; ability to use strategies and skills to enlist others in setting, embracing, and achieving objectives while having a long-term perspective of the future state of things and how to get there.
Effective project management strategies and tactics; ability to plan, organize, monitor, and control projects, ensuring efficient utilization of technical and administrative resources to achieve project objectives.
Processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice.
Policies, standards and processes of how to manage and administer contracts; ability to use proper processes and practices for managing and administering a variety of contractual agreements.
Strategic sourcing methods, technologies and processes; ability to analyze, improve and re-evaluate organizational procurement process continuously.
Functions, principles and techniques used in supply chain management; ability to develop and implement strategies, practices and tools for controlling the whole processes.

Desired Qualifications:

Bachelor s degree with 10 years or a Master s degree with 7 years of experience in Supply Chain.
Experience creating Sourcing & Commodity Strategies

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree in Supply Chain
6-sigma Blackbelt

Apply:

Entitlement to work in the US is essential. For more information or^ to apply for this Strategic sourcing specialist position, please contact the US team on 1 or Please quote job reference 155023 in all correspondence.

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Job Title: Strategic Sourcing Specialist Location: San DiegoSalary: Competitive Description: CK Group are seeking a Strategic Sourcing Specailist to join a growing biotechnology business with cutting edge technology. This position is on a full time, permanent basis, to be based in San Dieg...