**Job Description:**

**Position Summary** **:**

The Strategic Sourcing Manager will report to the Industrial Business Unit Manager and will be responsible for coordinating sourcing activities for all of the Industrial Components’ business in North America. Product mix will include products manufactured by ITW in North America and outsourced products manufactured in multiple locations around the world. This position will work together with the Strategic Sourcing Manager in the EMEA region.

**Responsibilities** **:**

+ **Supplier Management**
+ Develop sourcing strategies based on rigorous analysis of spend data, supply market dynamics, category intelligence, and business requirements to ensure supply base optimization and improvement to cost, quality and service.
+ Identifies strategic partners and delivers improved products and lower costs to the organization through supplier management, strategic sourcing, commodity management, and total ...