Badger Meter

Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Milwaukee, WI

full_time

About This Job

Why Badger Meter?

Badger Meter is a leading global water technology company, with a mission to preserve and protect the world’s most precious resource. For more than 100 years, cities and businesses have utilized our innovative and trusted solutions to enhance operational efficiency and conserve water while making it more affordable, clean and resilient. Just like every drop counts, at Badger Meter every employee counts because our contributions have a lasting impact on the world!

Here at Badger Meter, we believe that our approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion is the very foundation of our success. Our commitment is reflected in our core values, where we strive to create an environment that celebrates differences, encourages innovation, and ensures that every voice is celebrated and appreciated.

We understand that a diverse team brings a variety of perspectives and ideas, which ultimately fosters creativity and excellence. Badger Meter provides opportunities for career growth and development for every employee by creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where they can make meaningful contributions while preserving the world’s most precious resource.

What You Will Contribute:

This position is responsible for supporting the Strategic and Tactical initiatives within Badger Meter to support changing business needs.

This role will assist the Strategic Sourcing Manager with managing vendor relationships, new product development, project implementation, and process efficiencies. It will also assist in implementing sourcing strategies, finding new suppliers, as well as evaluating current suppliers.

This role will have direct buying responsibilities of a commodity(s) as the procurement department requires. This person will work with the appropriate site Procurement Manager(s) to ensure tactical buying needs are met.

The work performed in this role will support all Safety, Quality, On-time Delivery, Cost, and Continuous improvement activities to achieve Badger Meter’s corporate goals.

Job Responsibilities:

As directed to support the Strategic Sourcing Manager.

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Drive proactive involvement in all functional activities related to sourcing. This may include attending project meetings and working with appropriate individuals to understand new part requirements.

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Work closely with Engineering, Project Management, Operations, and Quality to ensure the optimal source is selected and capable to support Badger Meter.

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Review and evaluate supply base by commodity to identify optimal sources for Badger Meter while consolidating to align with strong supply partners.

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Evaluates and analyzes supplier capabilities to determine best overall value, recommends suppliers for development of new or improvements to existing products to the Project Teams.

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Perform on-site supplier evaluation visits to assist in the recommendation process

For commodities or work assigned by the site Procurement Manager(s)

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Analyzes and schedules material purchases utilizing Badger Meter’s ERP system and tools.

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Set planning parameters and issue PO’s to support production requirements.

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This includes optimizing the process to maintain short lead-times, low inventory, yet supplying required materials in a timely manner.

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Position requires the understanding of production and inventory control and forecasting procedures.

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Supports Procurement Department in necessary metric reporting or any other required procedure in the department.

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This may include supplier performance reports, supplier risk analysis reports, supplier capacity reviews, supplier quality certification status, on-time delivery reporting, ppm analysis, etc.

Qualifications:

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A minimum of 7 years of experience

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Bachelor degree in the area of supply chain, business, or a related field preferred

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Advanced Computer skills in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, ERP

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Excellent negotiation skills, problem solving, written and verbal skills

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Basic ability to read blue prints

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Ability to travel 20% of the time

Badger Meter is an equal opportunity employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the “EEO is the Law” poster supplement at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm

Competitive Total Rewards at Badger Meter:

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Competitive Pay

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Annual Bonus

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Eligible for Annual Pay Increases

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Comprehensive Health, Vision, and Dental Coverage

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15 days Paid Time Off + 11 Paid Holidays

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Two Ways to Save for Retirement: Badger Meter contributes 25 cents for every dollar you contribute to the plan, up to 7% of your eligible compensation. In addition to the match, the company will also contribute 5% of your eligible compensation to your Defined Contribution account on an annual basis. Additional access to a certified financial planner to help ensure your money is working for you, at no cost!

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Employer Paid benefits including: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Basic Group Life Insurance, Short Term Disability, and more

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Educational Assistance – Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250

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Voluntary benefits including: Additional Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, Accident and Critical Illness coverage

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Health Savings Account (HSA) & Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options

An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. This company considers candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Applicants can learn more about their rights regarding equal opportunity in employment by viewing the federal "EEO is the Law" poster and the “EEO is the Law” poster supplement at http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm

Badger Meter complies with all aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local disability laws. This means that we will reasonably accommodate qualified employees with a disability if accommodation would allow them to perform the essential functions of their job, unless doing so would create an undue hardship.

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