Sourcing Manager

Join Eastman as a Sourcing Manager

About Eastman

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2024 revenue of approximately $9.4 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.

The Role

The Sourcing Manager is a full-time position in the EMEA Direct Procurement organization, based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, reporting to the Sourcing Director. The primary responsibility of this role is to manage sourcing and procurement of a portfolio of categories of raw materials.
The role includes developing sourcing strategies for the raw materials required and an overall direction for the categories, securing the needed materials at the lowest total cost of ownership, negotiating pricing and supply contracts with existing suppliers, working to develop new supply sources as needed, working with internal stakeholders to gain product and supplier approvals and ensuring product supply and managing supplier risk. The role will involve communicating and meeting with external suppliers, internal stakeholders, and occasional travel. The Sourcing Manager will interface closely with internal stakeholders, including Strategic Business Units, Manufacturing Units, Manufacturing, Product Stewardship, Supply Chain and Quality organizations.

Responsibilities

• Leads sourcing activities for assigned categories of spend, with the goal of achieving significant initial cost reductions, while maintaining/improving product quality and supplier service levels
• Negotiates and executes supply contracts in line with the product and category strategies
• Builds and manages supplier relationships, performance, risks and contracting based on sourcing strategy and business needs
• Works with various organizations to establish new or modified raw materials to support new products or new business requiring modified formulations
• Conducts assessments and audits to qualify new suppliers or validate existing ones meet expectations (quality systems, certifications, security)
• Facilitates supplier exploration, negotiation and contracting processes and ensures contract compliance
• Works closely with key stakeholders in the businesses, quality, operations, finance, legal, and across global procurement to develop effective sourcing, inventory, cost reduction and category plans
• Develops market expertise in the assigned categories and monitors market trends to inform sourcing decisions and make recommendations to business leadership
• Facilitates cross-functional teams to develop and implement category strategies
• Assesses product and supplier risk of business interruption and establishes and executes effective mitigation plans
• Upholds internal and external policies, regulations and laws

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Three years of related sourcing or other related commercial role
• Successful, track record in Supply Chain, Purchasing, Sales, or other business commercial role
• Strong commercial and negotiating skills to drive to lowest total cost of ownership
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills (multiple complex analyses simultaneously) Strong attention to detail and accountability
• Strategic mind-set to identify improvement opportunities, with balance of short term and long-term interests. Good planning/project management skills
• The ability to represent Eastman’s position with suppliers and other external contacts
• Proactive and self-motivated in recognizing needs, solving problems, anticipating issues and developing solutions
• The ability to work cross-functionally and to collaboratively engage and influence other parts of the Corporation
• Adaptive to change, embraces challenges Demonstrates a global mindset
• Strong bias for action and goal oriented to drive to positive outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Eastman is committed to creating a powerfully diverse workforce and a broadly inclusive workplace, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.

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