Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Summary

Join Dandy, a venture-backed company transforming the dental industry, as a Strategic Sourcing Specialist. You will play a key role in scaling strategic sourcing operations, working with global stakeholders to improve customer experience. Responsibilities include building supplier management processes, focusing on product quality, turnaround time, cost, and customer experience. You will identify sourcing opportunities, implement strategic supply chain solutions, and manage critical implementations. This role requires collaboration with various departments and a focus on innovation and problem-solving. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, and project management. This position offers opportunities to disrupt the industry and build a leading dental lab.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing/procurement, vendor management, operations
• 2+ years of project management experience
• Proven ability and experience in executing procurement programs, successful research and negotiations, vendor relationship management including contracting, implementation, and migration processes
• Demonstrated ability to model various business scenarios and analyze resulting costs, impacts, risks, and benefits to inform and recommend business solutions
• Comfortable working cross-functionally and coordinating the efforts of a diverse range of stakeholders inclusive, but not limited to, R&D, S&OP, operations, manufacturing, engineering, accounting/finance, legal/compliance, and project management personnel
• Experience using data to calculate project level ROIs and drive strategic decision making
• Strong self-motivation, self-direction, excellent communication skills and ability to work cross functionally to push improvement initiatives to completion
• Passion for breaking down complex problems into smaller manageable steps in order to help team members effectively work through the ambiguity
• Very high attention to detail and organizational skills
• Natural curiosity and ability to learn new concepts, tools, and workflows quickly

Responsibilities

• Mitigate supply chain risks and ensure vendors meet business needs at the lowest total delivered cost
• Maintain and manage strong relationships with suppliers to ensure long-term performance and compliance
• Drive vendor compliance through scorecarding, setting clear expectations, and, if necessary, offboarding underperforming vendors according to defined vetting standards
• Source new products and onboard vendors while driving cost-saving initiatives
• Conduct price negotiations, RFPs, and implement vendor contracts with clear terms and conditions
• Lead procurement initiatives and programs from start to finish, managing cross-functional projects with upstream and downstream departments
• Build consensus and drive alignment among stakeholders in support of sourcing, implementation, and compliance activities
• Identify and recommend cost-saving opportunities throughout project lifecycles to positively impact business operations
• Collaborate effectively with key stakeholders to ensure successful project implementation and timely delivery
• Collaborate with upstream demand planning partners on Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) forecasts to inform price negotiations and assess supply chain risks
• Work closely with R&D and manufacturing during the product testing phase to ensure procurement needs align with development and production timelines
• Be the primary cross-functional partner responsible for procurement, operations, and materials management for new or changing materials and suppliers
• Continuously seek opportunities to improve materials, workflows, processes, and technology, optimizing quality, scale, and efficiency for the product lines and manufacturing operations
• Employ research, partnerships, and critical thinking to troubleshoot and solve problems quickly
• Collaborate with manufacturing to bring outsourced milling processes in-house, ensuring better control and cost efficiency

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced working knowledge of Google Sheets/Excel is a plus
• Loving to negotiate and taking personal responsibility to save every dollar possible
• Experience in data sets including (but not limited to) Microsoft Excel, Looker, Salesforce, and SQL

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Dental
• Mental health support
• Parental planning resources
• Retirement savings options
• Generous paid time off