Your mission Hiab is seeking a data-driven, proactive Sourcing Specialist to join our team. The role focuses on vendor selection and cost-reduction initiatives to meet annual productivity goals. By utilizing global benchmarking and expert negotiation, the specialist will maximize purchasing synergies and leverage company spend. The candidate will take ownership of sourcing category strategies and uncover new opportunities, executing activities designed to minimize acquisition costs and secure benchmark total cost of ownership. The specialist will oversee comprehensive sourcing operations, ensuring stability of multi-tier supply chains, collaborating on SRM, driving early supplier involvement, and reporting to the Category Manager Hydraulics. Key Responsibilities Collaborate, identify, develop and execute sourcing activities across Hiab spend to optimize use of Hiab resources over the E2 E product lifecycle addressing strategic commercial sourcing requirements, supplier preferencing, securing early focus on service and end‐of‐life requirements,
supplier consolidation and pipeline to secure continuity of supply and emerging business needs Hiab RFQ preparation, analysis of data, preparation for negotiation and/or negotiation / business award according to delegation of authority Identify, propose and later implement and track and implement cost saving actions defined to meet the year on year productivity targets for the category Develop open book costings, budgets and raw material forecasting for the suppliers within scope Successful cross‐functional participation in New Product Development, Supplier relationship Management (SRM), early supplier involvement and selection with technology development, productivity, total cost reduction make/buy programs, should‐cost modelling, and business process and system implementation Manage and improve the Hiab‐wide supplier performance using category supplier development resources and QDCI balanced scorecard methodology to monitor
📌 Sourcing specialist (Italia)
🏢 Hiab
📍 Italia