About this role
Job title: Procurement Sourcing Leader
About the Role The Procurement Sourcing Leader at Copeland will build, mature, and scale the supply base for our next generation platforms. This role sits at the intersection of sourcing, engineering and operations to identify, qualify, and ramp suppliers to support aggressive program timelines and long-term growth.
What You'll Do
- Lead supplier onboarding and ramp-up activities for new strategic platforms, ensuring readiness across quality, capacity, cost and delivery.
- Manage program timelines, milestones, and risk mitigation plans related to supplier performance and sourcing deliverables.
- Partner with engineering and operations to translate technical requirements into sourcing strategies and supplier capability needs.
- Facilitate cross-functional program reviews, escalating risks and driving resolution to keep programs on track.
- Travel up to 25-30% of the time depending on projects.
- Identify, assess, and develop suppliers to support emerging technologies and long-term strategic platforms.
- Conduct capability assessments and maturity evaluations to ensure suppliers can meet evolving technical and operational requirements.
- Support dual-sourcing, localization, and resilience strategies to strengthen supply continuity.
- Collaborate with Supplier Quality, Commodity teams to ensure alignment of quality, cost and delivery across the supply base.
What We're Looking For
- Proven experience developing suppliers for strategic platforms and NPIs.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations, supplier quality and procurement teams.
- Ability to translate technical requirements into sourcing strategies and supplier capability needs.
- Track record of managing program timelines, milestones and risk mitigation.
- Willingness to travel as needed for projects.