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The Procurement Sourcing Leader will play a pivotal role in building, maturing, and scaling the supply base for Copeland's next generation of strategic platforms. This role sits at the intersection of sourcing, engineering, operations, and supplier development, ensuring new suppliers are identified, qualified, and ramped effectively to support aggressive program timeliness and long-term growth.

You will lead suppliers' readiness for key new product introductions (NPI), drive cross-functional alignment, and help shape a resilient, high-performing supply base capable of supporting future strategic programs.

This position is critical to ensuring Copeland's future platforms launch on time, with the right suppliers, at the right cost, and with the right capabilities. You'll help shape the supply base that underpins our next decade of innovation - and you'll do it in a highly visible, strategically important role.

As A PROCUREMENT SOURCING LEADER, You Will:

Supplier Ramp & Program Execution:

• Lead supplier onboarding and ramp-up activities for new strategic platforms, ensuring readiness across quality, capacity, cost and delivery.

• Manage program timelines, milestones, and risk mitigation plans related to supplier performance and sourcing deliverables

• Partner with engineering and operations to translate technical requirements into sourcing strategies and supplier capability needs

• Facilitate cross-functional program reviews, escalating risks and driving resolution to keep programs on track.

• Travel up to 25-30% of the time depending on projects.

Supply Base Development:

• Identify, assess, and develop suppliers to support emerging technologies and long-term strategic platforms

• Conduct capability assessments and maturity evaluations to ensure suppliers can meet evolving technical and operational requirements.

• Support dual-sourcing, localization, and resilience strategies to strengthen supply continuity.

• Collaborate with Supplier Quality, Commodity Management and Advanced Manufacturing to drive supplier improvement initiatives.

Strategic Sourcing Support:

• Contribute to sourcing strategies for new programs, including make vs buy analysis, supplier selection, and commercial negotiations.

• Align supplier development activities with broader commodity roadmaps and enterprise procurement strategies.

• Support cost modeling, early supplier engagement, and value engineering efforts during product development.

Risk Management & Governance:

• Identify supplier risks early in the program lifecycle and lead mitigation planning

• Maintain program dashboards, supplier readiness metrics, and executive-level reporting.

• Ensure compliance with corporate procurement policies, sustainability expectations and regulatory requirements.

Required Education, Experiences & Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, Engineering, Business or related field

• 5+ years of experience in procurement, supplier development, program management, or NPI sourcing

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, supplier capability assessment, and supply chain risk management.

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage complex, multi-phase programs

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills

Preferred Education, Experiences & Skills:

• Experienced with supplier ramp-ups, new product introductions, or strategic platform launches is highly desirable

• Preferred experience in Commodities such as Castings, Steel, Stampings, Plastics

• Certifications such as Project Management is preferred

Collaboration First Hybrid Work Arrangements:

This role is hybrid eligible with the requirement to be in office at least three days per week. Colleagues are expected to demonstrate a collaboration first mindset, which is the understanding that teams will work together in-person and colleagues should be flexible to adjust their hybrid days based on business needs. You will have an opportunity to work with your team and leader to determine when you should be in office to drive meaningful connections and to best serve our customers.

Why Work in the Greater Miami Valley Area

Our facility is located in Sidney, OH conveniently located within driving distance to several larger cities, such as Dayton, Troy, and Columbus. The area's generally low costs of living, excellent school systems, and low crime rates create a family-friendly environment. The area is home to several growing communities with restaurants, festivals, shopping, and arts scenes that make them exciting places to live and work.

About our Location

The newly renovated Sidney campus has 1M square feet of manufacturing floor with an additional 120k square feet of leading-edge lab facilities. This location is the headquarters for the air conditioning and cold chain businesses. Through our 30 years of scroll compressor expertise, our air conditioning related products help bring comfort and convenience in commercial, industrial and residential spaces. The cold chain business helps ensure that food safely and efficiently travels from farm to fork. Approximately 1600 employees work in Sidney, who all support a multitude of business functions. With the blend of businesses and functions represented under this one roof, there are many opportunities for advancement within the Sidney location