Manager, Sourcing
Brooklyn, New York

Company Overview:

Since 2013, our founding mission at StrongArm Technologies has been and remains to keep the world's Industrial Athletes™ Proud, Protected, and Productive. We achieve this through our pioneering FUSE safety wearables and the actionable physiological, environmental, and proximity data they provide to individuals and management across numerous job types, industries, and operating environments.

The Industrial Athlete™ is the beating heart of everything we represent and strive for here at StrongArm - the essential, frontline workers of the world who put their bodies on the line to perform a critical job function that positively impacts lives beyond their own. But that responsibility doesn't come without its consequences. Far too often, preventable workplace injuries lead to lost shifts, missed paychecks and threatened livelihoods. That, to us, is unacceptable.

In order to most effectively prevent injuries in a given operational environment, we work closely with each client across many dedicated and leading-edge teams, including client services, data and engineering, IT security, and others. Each safety program is tailored to the needs of the workers on the ground and the managers who oversee them, including what types of safety wearables and attachment options will suit them best, and the look and cadence of the safety reports that we'll provide. The result is an actionable and scalable safety solution that seamlessly becomes part of a facility's daily routine and is proven to prevent workplace injuries by as much as 64% across hundreds or thousands of Industrial Athletes.

Position Overview:

As a Manager on the Sourcing Team, you will be responsible for handling the company’s end to end sourcing operations, including procuring components independently and with partners.

In this role, you will appraise and improve our sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending, supplying partnerships and new possibilities. To do this you will work cross-functionally with our engineering, production, and product teams to determine the best components and alternatives for each piece of our patented hardware that is essential to our data collection.

The ideal candidate should have sound knowledge of bill of materials (BOM) process, procurement including but not limited to request for proposal (RFP), purchase order (PO), invoicing, inventory management, etc., and negotiation strategies, an unrelenting commitment to quality, excellent organizational and communication skills, and desire to deliver a super product on time.

Essential Functions:

• Evaluate sourcing procedures/RFP and present improvement to senior management for approval.
• Be a source of truth and accountable for complete sourcing for all equipment in preparation for manufacturing.
• Analyze and calculate procurement costs and developing cost reduction strategies.
• Drive purchasing decisions based on cost and scenario analysis, as well as market trends.
• Negotiating contracts with key suppliers, including costs and terms of supply, service, and quality.
• Collaborate with the engineering, production, and product departments to identify and pursue new supplier opportunities. 
• Conduct market research, as well as create cost estimates and forecasts.
• Estimate risks and apply minimizing techniques, as well as negotiate contracts that comply with industry regulations.
• Maintain strategic sourcing relationships and develop strong partnerships.
• Manage BOM, PO and invoice.
• Strong knowledge in procurement in the Internet of Things (IOT).
• Ensure there is no shortage in BOM including but not limited to integrated circuits, BLE 5.0 or higher, LED, speaker, battery, register, printed circuit board, tablet, etc.

Key Requirements / Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, economics, engineering/science, finance, logistics, or a related field or experience.
• 2-5 years of procurement experience. IOT, sensor, mobile and wearable experience preferred. Sourcing industry experience working for Future Electronics or similar preferred.
• Proficiency in sourcing software, BOM, PO, invoicing, inventory management and RFP.
• Superb leadership and communication skills.
• Advanced ability to collaborate and negotiate.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking abilities.

StrongArm Technologies is an equal opportunity employer