Manager, Direct Material Procurement

A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

• Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson, Revel, Denon, and Bowers & Wilkins.
• Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development.
• Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience.

What You’ll Be Part Of

We are seeking a candidate with the appropriate direct material procurement experience, strategic sourcing capabilities, and stakeholder management skills required for the role.

How You’ll Make An Impact

• Provide thoughtful leadership and innovative strategies for optimizing global sourcing effectiveness.
• Act as supplier owner; oversee, conduct, and actively manage and improve the end-to-end strategic sourcing and procurement process.
• Act as escalation party to supplier management throughout product lifecycle.
• Ensure expedient and compliant implementation of contracts throughout organization.
• Accountable for vendor master and purchasing price and terms updates and maintenance in the system.
• Lead supplier Total Cost Ownership Management by collaboration with stakeholders based on market insight, industrial benchmark and best practices.
• Lead to define and implement global supplier strategy with strong collaboration with corporate and regional stakeholders
• Actively source, evaluate and identify market trends and new technologies, make appropriate fact-based recommendations for adoption by HARMAN stakeholders, to support building product roadmap.
• Establish strong vendor relationships, effectively manage category supply base, perform advanced and intricate negotiations, and oversee selection of key vendors.
• Lead to manage vendor performance (Supplier Performance Scorecard) against contracts, industry benchmarks, and previous baselines on a regular basis (QBR).
• Actively support and / or lead NPI development by securing sourcing deliverables with supplier selection, RFQ and continuous cost improvements.
• Coordinate and work with both corporate and regional stakeholders to standardize corporate-wide product specifications and establish and implement long-term strategic goals to continually enhance HARMAN’s market position.
• Develop and deliver good quality management reports and present with senior management.
• Growth & Learning Opportunities

• Work with world-wide corporate business units
• Work with multi-cultural talents globally.
• Develop deep market insights both in products and supply base
• Strengthen the knowledge in sourcing and procurement processes
• Strengthen communication skills through collaboration with global teams and remote leadership.
• Enhance global leadership by setting and driving business impacts

What Makes You A Strong Fit

• Self-driven and business centric.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration.
• Minimum 8+ years of sourcing and procurement experience.
• Prior experience in sourcing and negotiating direct materials in a consumer electronics environment using strategic category management techniques to achieve results.
• Must possess the social intelligence to influence and lead at the senior levels within the organization.
• 8+ years of direct materials sourcing experience from new Product Development through End of Life.
• Proven record in successfully using benchmarking and cost analysis tools to deliver negotiation outcomes to exceed the market index.
• Solid experiences in supplier sourcing, supplier performance.
• management, negotiation, contract development/analysis, supplier evaluation, price/cost analysis.
• Outstanding communication and presentation abilities.
• Solid understanding of risk management techniques.
• Excellent market research and trend analysis skills.
• Strong strategic/long-range planning skills.
• Good financial analysis skills.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Working knowledge of acoustics, lighting and other lifestyle electronic products.
• Good temperament and ability to work with suppliers and customers from different cultures.
• Verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Creative problem-solver capable of creating and reproducing complex defects.
• Familiar with manufacturing processes commonly used in acoustics and electronics assemblies.
• Build environment of trust, high performance and engagement by establishing clear goals and a commitment to feedback, development and recognition
• Champion a better, faster and simpler way of doing things
• Apply original thinking and continuous improvement to processes, products, systems or services and manage change to better serve customer needs

Things To Know

• Willingness to travel, approx. 30%.
• Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful.
• completion of a background investigation and drug screen.

What You Can Expect

• A hybrid work environment that balances flexibility with in-person collaboration, with most office-based roles onsite four days a week.
• Access to employee discounts on HARMAN and Samsung products (including JBL, Harman / Kardon, AKG, and others).
• Learning and development opportunities through our award-winning HARMAN University programs.
• Wellness benefits designed to support your overall well-being.
• Tuition reimbursement support.
• Access to the HARMAN campus fitness center and cafeteria, where available.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that supports both your professional and personal development.