Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials & Fabrications
Mission Critical Group · United States · remote
Mission Critical Group (MCG) is an end-to-end power solutions and services provider that accelerates time-to-power and delivers scalable, resilient infrastructure for mission critical environments. By integrating engineering, manufacturing, modular deployment, and lifecycle services under one platform, we streamline execution and bring complex projects online faster - without compromising performance. With a robust U.S. manufacturing network, MCG supports data centers, power generation, healthcare, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and industrial facilities where uptime is non-negotiable. Mission Critical Group designs, manufactures and provides value-added services for customers requiring critical power solutions. Powering a new electric world for a brighter, more secure future.
The Strategic Sourcing Manager – Raw Materials & Fabrications develops and executes
enterprise category strategies for metals, fabricated components, and finishing services supporting
MCG product platforms, including low- and medium-voltage switchgear and switchboards, e-
houses, skids, and other engineered power solutions. The role builds regional supply capacity,
implements index-based commodity pricing and risk models, improves cost transparency, executes
should-cost and total cost of ownership analyses, mitigates commodity and supply risks, and
reduces material, fabrication, and logistics lead times across assigned categories.
This is a high-impact individual contributor position with the authority, visibility, and executive
presence expected of a senior sourcing leader. The position owns more than $100 million in direct
material spend and serves as MCG's commercial leader and subject-matter expert for the assigned
categories.
Key Areas of Responsibility:
- Structural steel, including beams, tubing, channels, angles, and plate
- Copper, including busbar, grounding products, wire, and related conductive materials
- Sheet metal fabrication, heavy structural weldments, precision machining, and associated value-added processing
- Industrial coatings, paint, plating, finishes, freight, and logistics services
- Other categories as assigned
Key Business Outcomes:
- Material Productivity
- Strategic Supplier Delivery, Quality & Performance
- Category Strategy, Capacity & Supply Continuity
Accountabilities:
Category Strategy & Commodity Market Intelligence
- Develop and execute enterprise category strategies for structural steel, copper, fabricated metals, weldments, machining, coatings, and related services; segment suppliers based on capability, competitiveness, risk, and strategic importance.
- Monitor commodity indexes, market conditions, tariffs, freight, and capacity constraints; provide forecasts and executive updates on financial exposure, supply risk, and recommended actions.
- Establish commodity pricing methodologies, baselines, adjustment mechanisms, and commercial controls to improve transparency and manage volatility.
Strategic Sourcing & Commercial Leadership
- Lead enterprise sourcing events, supplier selection, negotiations, and contract strategies for assigned categories.
- Negotiate indexed and long-term agreements, volume commitments, inventory programs, and capacity reservations using spend analysis, market intelligence, should-cost, and total cost of ownership.
- Aggregate spend and demand across MCG operating companies and COEs and drive enterprise savings initiatives through implementation and financial validation.
Cost Modeling & Financial Performance
- Develop should-cost and TCO models covering material, conversion, freight, inventory, lead time, and working capital.
- Separate commodity movement from supplier conversion costs to improve cost transparency, negotiations, forecasting, and exposure management.
- Partner with Engineering, Operations, Estimating, and Finance on design-to-cost, value engineering, material utilization, pricing, and savings validation.
Regional Capacity & Supply-Continuity Management
- Develop and qualify a regional supplier network capable of supporting MCG’s nationwide manufacturing footprint and project demand.
- Assess supplier capability and risk and establish dual-source, multi-source, and contingency strategies for critical materials and processes.
- Secure forward capacity for major projects and lead recovery actions when supplier performance threatens production or customer schedules.
Engineering, Operations & Manufacturability Collaboration
- Partner with Engineering and suppliers to standardize materials, specifications, and finishes and engage suppliers early in product and fabrication planning.
- Lead design-for-manufacturability and make-versus-buy analyses with Engineering, Operations, Quality, and strategic suppliers.
- Support qualification and implementation of alternate materials, processes, suppliers, and finishes that improve availability, cost, quality, or manufacturability.
Supplier Relationship, Quality & Performance Management
- Serve as enterprise relationship owner for strategic suppliers and lead business reviews covering commercial and operational performance.
- Establish supplier scorecards, corrective actions, and performance-recovery priorities in partnership with Supplier Quality, Engineering, Operations, and COE teams.
- Drive supplier development focused on delivery, quality, capacity, responsiveness, and cost competitiveness.
Freight, Logistics & Lead-Time Optimization
- Develop sourcing strategies based on total landed cost and transportation requirements for raw materials and fabricated assemblies.
- Optimize supplier location, shipment mode, consolidation, packaging, routing, and delivery frequency to reduce freight cost, lead time, and disruption.
- Partner with Logistics and Operations to improve material flow and establish contingencies for critical and oversized shipments.
Cross-Functional Execution & Business Integration
- Provide indirect leadership to COE sourcing and purchasing professionals, aligning priorities and driving execution of enterprise category strategies and material productivity initiatives.
- Lead MCG-sponsored savings projects through validated execution with the COEs while supporting COE-led initiatives required to achieve business-unit goals.
- Integrate category strategies with COE materials leadership, SIOP, Engineering, Operations, Finance, and executive stakeholders to support capacity, clear-to-build readiness, customer commitments, and major proposals.
Required Knowledge/Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Finance, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, supplier management, commodity management, or supply chain leadership within manufacturing or engineered-product environments.
- Demonstrated success developing and executing enterprise sourcing and category management strategies across multiple sites, business units, or product lines.
- Proven experience negotiating complex commercial agreements, long-term supply contracts, supplier partnerships, and risk-sharing arrangements.
- Experience leading supplier performance improvement initiatives related to quality, delivery, capacity, responsiveness, and cost.
- Demonstrated success delivering material productivity, cost reduction, value engineering, and supplier rationalization initiatives.
- Strong understanding of supplier quality systems, supplier development methodologies, contract governance, and supply risk management.
- Experience building executive-level supplier relationships and conducting supplier business reviews.
- Experience working effectively in multi-site, matrixed, and growth-oriented organizations.
Required Skills/Abilities:
- Advanced negotiation, supplier relationship management, and commercial leadership capabilities.
- Strong financial acumen, including cost modeling, total cost of ownership analysis, savings validation, and margin impact assessme