Advanced Purchasing Specialist

As an Advanced Purchasing Specialistsupporting New Product Development (NPD), you will play a critical role in bringing innovative products to life. You’ll partner closely with engineering, procurement, and category management teams in Lisle and across global regions to develop sourcing strategies that ensure flawless product launches.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility individual contributor role supporting multiple product lines, commodities, and global programs simultaneously. Success in this role requires agility, strong organization, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with multiple BOM revisions and shifting priorities.

If you enjoy influencing design decisions, building global supplier partnerships, and driving cost competitiveness from concept to launch, this is the opportunity for you.

Location: This role can be filled in either Lisle, IL or Naperville, IL and follows a five-day workweek, with one remote day per week in accordance with company policy.

You will join the CCS team, a highly collaborative group that partners across North America and Europe to support product innovation and operational excellence.

What makes this role exciting:

• Exposure to global sourcing strategies and international supplier networks
• Direct involvement in new product launches
• Opportunity to influence margin improvement and value creation
• Growth aligned with advancements in AI and emerging technologies
• Career development within a rapidly expanding global organization

Strategic Sourcing Leadership

• Lead sourcing activities for new product introductions, creating sourcing roadmaps aligned with product lifecycles
• Partner with Category Management, Engineering, Project & Product Management and other key stake holders to execute strategies that drive value and ensure seamless product launches

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with engineering, project & product management, and manufacturing teams
• Influence design decisions to optimize supplier capabilities, cost, and manufacturability

Supplier Management & Development

• Identify, evaluate, and develop new suppliers for emerging programs
• Manage and strengthen existing supplier relationships to ensure quality, delivery, and cost performance

Cost Management & Negotiation

• Negotiate pricing, tooling investments, and contracts to ensure total cost competitiveness
• Conduct detailed cost breakdown analyses and Total Landed Cost evaluations
• Drive margin improvement through leverage creation and implementation of VA/VE initiatives

Risk Mitigation

• Identify supply chain risks related to materials, processes, and supplier capacity
• Develop mitigation strategies before product transition to manufacturing

Project Execution

• Manage prototype sourcing and track procurement milestones to support on-time launches
• Navigate multiple BOM revisions and shifting program priorities with precision and organization

Continuous Improvement

• Develop your capabilities in alignment with PBM principles
• Contribute to a culture of innovation, value creation, and operational excellence

• 2+ years of experience in sourcing, procurement, or advanced purchasing
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or supply chain management or equivalent
• Foundational understanding of purchasing principles with the ability to work across various commodities
• Experience working in fast-paced, multi-program environments
• Experience with SAP or similar procurement systems
• Potential travel up to 10%

• Experience sourcing industrial, metal, mechanical, injection molded, or related commodities
• Experience working with commodities related to injection molding, stamping, machining, electronics, PCB, films, adhesives, foams and converting.
• Background supporting automotive, consumer, commercial, or industrial product environments
• Strong expertise in supplier negotiations focused on BOM cost optimization and margin improvement
• Experience performing cost breakdown and total landed cost analysis
• Exceptional communication, influence, and persuasion skills
• Ability to manage multiple commodities and programs simultaneously with strong organizational discipline