Senior NPI Sourcing Specialist (Manufacturing)

Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA

Company

hirify.global develops solutions for home protection, business resilience, and a more sustainable energy future.

What you will do

• Lead sourcing strategies for complex new product introduction programs, including RFQs, supplier evaluation, negotiations, selection, and commercial recommendations.
• Manage supplier qualification, relationships, commitments, delivery, quality, capacity, and launch readiness.
• Own material readiness across prototype, validation, pilot, and production launch milestones, including purchase orders, forecasts, PPAP, expediting, and recovery actions.
• Manage supplier pricing, tooling, NRE, logistics, tariffs, costed BOMs, standard costs, and cost-saving initiatives.
• Assess supplier and material risks and lead mitigation plans involving alternate sourcing, dual sourcing, capacity expansion, and contingency planning.
• Represent sourcing on cross-functional NPI teams, coach less-experienced specialists, and improve sourcing and material-readiness processes.

Requirements

• Significant experience in NPI sourcing, procurement, materials, purchasing, supply chain, supplier management, or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of RFQs, supplier selection, commercial negotiations, TCO, purchase orders, BOMs/CBOMs, PPAP, engineering changes, and NPI processes.
• Ability to independently lead complex sourcing and supplier-management activities and drive cross-functional decisions.
• Strong understanding of supplier capacity, lead times, delivery, cost structures, quality, and supply risk.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, problem-solving, communication, organization, and decision-making skills.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrial, engineering, or complex product-development environments; SAP, Ariba, or similar systems experience is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with cross-functional collaboration across sourcing, engineering, quality, operations, planning, program management, and finance.
• Opportunity to coach team members and establish sourcing, supplier-management, and launch-execution best practices.
• Work focused on resilient, efficient, and sustainable energy solutions.
• Equal opportunity employment.