What you'll love about this job

This role offers the unique opportunity to blend engineering, procurement, and strategic sourcing into one impactful position. You'll work directly with engineers, suppliers, and business leaders to influence product design, manufacturing decisions, and long-term sourcing strategies. From evaluating PCBAs, rechargeable batteries, LEDs, and low-voltage electronic components to supporting tooling, packaging, aluminum manufacturing, and industrial design initiatives, you'll gain exposure to a wide range of technologies and products. You'll have the opportunity to lead sourcing projects, develop supplier partnerships, build business cases, conduct should-cost and benchmark analyses, and contribute to new product launches from concept to market. If you enjoy solving complex technical and commercial challenges, using data to drive decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to create innovative products and cost-saving opportunities, this is a role where your expertise and ideas will make a visible impact on the business.

This is Energizer Holdings, Inc.

Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization – we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team. Because we’re a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

Position Summary

The Lights Sourcing Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the development and execution of category and supplier strategies while partnering closely with Engineering, R&D, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain teams. This position combines strong technical expertise with procurement and analytical capabilities to identify cost, quality, innovation, and supply continuity opportunities across assigned product categories and suppliers. The role is responsible for conducting detailed market and supplier analysis, developing category and supplier profiles, maintaining supplier performance scorecards, supporting supplier negotiations, and driving sourcing projects from concept through commercialization. The Sourcing Engineer serves as a key technical liaison with suppliers and internal engineering teams, leveraging expertise in electrical and mechanical components, manufacturing processes, and product design to support new product development, supplier risk management, cost modeling, and strategic sourcing initiatives. Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management, advanced analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and suppliers to deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions that align with business objectives.

Responsibilities

Universal Accountabilities

Conduct quantitative analysis using Excel, PowerBi, and dashboards
Develop category and supplier profiles and present to leadership/stakeholders
Ensure supplier scorecards are up to date and maintain accurate and timely information on the supplier
Support negotiations with suppliers and cost model development across their category and lead efforts for their assigned sub-categories/suppliers
Support New Product Development for assigned sub-categories/suppliers
Support supplier risk management for assigned sub-categories/suppliers
Understand the importance of stakeholder management and begin to engage stakeholders
Support the development category specific pipeline

Specific Accountabilities

Conducts reliable analysis when requested
Manages day-to-day supplier relationship activities
Supports risk and compliance program management
Conducts supply market analysis
Executes sourcing and product cycle plan projects independently
Tracks procurement performance metrics
Demonstrates knowledge of negotiation tools/techniques and apply them regularly when given opportunities
Manages sophisticated financial analysis and business cases independently
Demonstrates expertise in benchmark and should-cost analyses using competitive intelligence and reports
Demonstrates an understanding in the Energizer strategic sourcing process
Develops and implements sub-category procurement strategy, goals and savings targets in line with company strategy and procurement best practices for assigned areas

What you will deal with:

Electrical

Low-voltage circuit knowledge including IC, capacitor, resistor, switch, etc.
PCBA design and manufacturing knowledge
Re-chargeable battery knowledge
LED related knowledge

Mechanical

Tooling – plastics & metal
Industrial design knowledge
Aluminum manufacturing and anodizing
Packaging knowledge

What we are looking for

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Engineering, or Business Management preferred
2+ years of experience with demonstrated success of managing projects
Highly self-motivated with the ability to drive change in a decentralized organization with minimum supervision
Experience in quantitative analysis using Microsoft Excel (beyond basic data entry) and PowerPoint
Strong analytical thinking with demonstrated results
Strong oral and written communication skills with ability to present ideas in storytelling, business-friendly language
Ability to set priorities and make decisions

Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience in portable lights business in Zhejiang or Guangdong provinces
Experience in LED bulbs business
Experience in managing supplier relationships and conducting negotiations
Experience working in SAP and PowerBi
Strong facilitation skills to collaborate with stakeholders across companies to implement sourcing strategies
Strong understanding of costs, working capital, and other financial metrics
Ability to coordinate multiple projects and programs
Knowledge and use of e-Procurement and e-Sourcing methodology
Knowledge of global treading and Terms
Knowledge of plastics injection, Aluminum machining and anodizing, PCBA and costing, rechargeable battery and costing, tooling design and costing, assembly, and testing.
Knowledge of packaging process and costing
Driving in China

Work Environment

Some travel required, up to 30%, mainly in Zhejiang and Guangdong, sometime to Southeast Asia countries
Working hour flexibility to support global teams
Fluent English

Come join us!

Energizer is an equal opportunity employer, and we prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, veteran status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

Energizer Holdings

Lights Sourcing Engineer

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