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Sr Sourcing Manager
MKS Instruments · India · back to the listing
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What this role officially is
operations manager — ESCO, the EU occupation classification
Operations managers plan, oversee and coordinate the daily operations of production of goods and provision of services. They also formulate and implement company policies and plan the use of human resources and materials.
Also known as: division operations manager, operations administrator, operations supervisor, operations general manager, operations director, business operations manager
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A Day in Your Life at MKS:
As the Sr. Sourcing Manager, you will lead a team of Sourcing Specialists based in India responsible for executing Direct Material sourcing activities across MKS. You will oversee the broader sourcing portfolio, set priorities, allocate resources, and ensure the team is positioned to deliver cost, supply continuity, and business objectives.
You’ll report to the Global NPI and Sourcing Director and work closely with Category Managers, Engineering, Quality, NPI, Procurement, Should-Cost, Supplier Development, and other business stakeholders. While Sourcing Specialists lead and execute individual sourcing projects, you will orchestrate activities across the portfolio by aligning priorities and resources, providing sourcing and commercial guidance, removing roadblocks, facilitating cross-functional alignment, and managing escalations when needed.
You will bring strong sourcing experience, commercial judgment, and knowledge of complex manufacturing to guide the team and support fact-based supplier decisions. As a people leader, you will coach and develop the Sourcing Specialists in India, establish clear expectations, manage workload and performance, and build the team’s sourcing capabilities. You will also promote consistent application of the 6-Gate Sourcing Process and ensure sourcing activities remain aligned with Category Management strategy and broader business needs.
You Will Make an Impact By:
• Overseeing a portfolio of Direct Material sourcing initiatives across machining, fabrication, electromechanical, and other assigned commodities.
• Coordinating sourcing priorities based on business needs, cost opportunities, NPI requirements, supply risk, and Category Management direction.
• Enabling Sourcing Specialists to successfully execute their projects by ensuring clear priorities, requirements, resources, and stakeholder support.
• Maintaining visibility across sourcing initiatives, including status, milestones, risks, resource constraints, decisions, and financial impact.
• Ensuring consistent application of the 6-Gate Sourcing Process, sourcing standards, and approval requirements.
• Orchestrating cross-functional alignment across Category Management, Engineering, Quality, NPI, Procurement, Should-Cost, Supplier Development, and other stakeholders to support timely sourcing decisions.
• Providing commercial and sourcing guidance on supplier evaluations, complex proposals, negotiations, and supplier selection, while ensuring cost, capability, capacity, quality, lead time, and supply risk are considered.
• Identifying and driving opportunities for cost reduction, cost avoidance, localization, supplier diversification, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation across the portfolio.
• Removing barriers and serving as an escalation point for complex supplier, commercial, and cross-functional issues, engaging supplier or internal leadership when needed.
• Coaching and developing Sourcing Specialists while communicating portfolio performance, key risks, opportunities, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
Skills You Bring:
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8– 10+ years1 of experience in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or a related complex manufacturing environment, with strong Direct Materials sourcing experience.
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, supplier evaluation and selection, commercial negotiation, and sourcing governance.
• Experience coordinating and prioritizing multiple sourcing initiatives based on business needs, cost opportunity, complexity, and supply risk.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, manage competing priorities, remove barriers, and drive resolution of escalations.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills, including supplier negotiations, quotation and cost analysis, business cases, and total cost of ownership.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and cost drivers, including machining, fabrication, and electromechanical assembly.
• Experience supporting supplier transitions, qualification, cost reduction, localization, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation initiatives.
• Strong judgment, coaching, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to guide sourcing decisions and support Sourcing Specialists.
• Experience working with global suppliers and teams, ERP/PLM and project management tools, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and travel up to 30% as needed.
Preferred Skills:
• Master’s Degree or MBA
• Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement certification or experience.
• Professional certification in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, or Project Management.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Ability to work remotely with flexibility to accommodate meetings across global time zones.
• Perform activities such as sitting, standing, or typing for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally moves/positions objects up to 15 pounds.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position for 40% of the time.
• Must be able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• Must be able to exchange accurate information.
• Ability to observe documents and details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Operates in a professional office and/or manufacturing environment.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually average.
Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations. Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.
MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies.MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: .
If applying for a specific job, please include the requisition number (ex: RXXXX), the title and location of the role
Originally posted on Himalayas
As the Sr. Sourcing Manager, you will lead a team of Sourcing Specialists based in India responsible for executing Direct Material sourcing activities across MKS. You will oversee the broader sourcing portfolio, set priorities, allocate resources, and ensure the team is positioned to deliver cost, supply continuity, and business objectives.
You’ll report to the Global NPI and Sourcing Director and work closely with Category Managers, Engineering, Quality, NPI, Procurement, Should-Cost, Supplier Development, and other business stakeholders. While Sourcing Specialists lead and execute individual sourcing projects, you will orchestrate activities across the portfolio by aligning priorities and resources, providing sourcing and commercial guidance, removing roadblocks, facilitating cross-functional alignment, and managing escalations when needed.
You will bring strong sourcing experience, commercial judgment, and knowledge of complex manufacturing to guide the team and support fact-based supplier decisions. As a people leader, you will coach and develop the Sourcing Specialists in India, establish clear expectations, manage workload and performance, and build the team’s sourcing capabilities. You will also promote consistent application of the 6-Gate Sourcing Process and ensure sourcing activities remain aligned with Category Management strategy and broader business needs.
You Will Make an Impact By:
• Overseeing a portfolio of Direct Material sourcing initiatives across machining, fabrication, electromechanical, and other assigned commodities.
• Coordinating sourcing priorities based on business needs, cost opportunities, NPI requirements, supply risk, and Category Management direction.
• Enabling Sourcing Specialists to successfully execute their projects by ensuring clear priorities, requirements, resources, and stakeholder support.
• Maintaining visibility across sourcing initiatives, including status, milestones, risks, resource constraints, decisions, and financial impact.
• Ensuring consistent application of the 6-Gate Sourcing Process, sourcing standards, and approval requirements.
• Orchestrating cross-functional alignment across Category Management, Engineering, Quality, NPI, Procurement, Should-Cost, Supplier Development, and other stakeholders to support timely sourcing decisions.
• Providing commercial and sourcing guidance on supplier evaluations, complex proposals, negotiations, and supplier selection, while ensuring cost, capability, capacity, quality, lead time, and supply risk are considered.
• Identifying and driving opportunities for cost reduction, cost avoidance, localization, supplier diversification, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation across the portfolio.
• Removing barriers and serving as an escalation point for complex supplier, commercial, and cross-functional issues, engaging supplier or internal leadership when needed.
• Coaching and developing Sourcing Specialists while communicating portfolio performance, key risks, opportunities, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
Skills You Bring:
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 8– 10+ years1 of experience in sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or a related complex manufacturing environment, with strong Direct Materials sourcing experience.
• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing, competitive bidding, supplier evaluation and selection, commercial negotiation, and sourcing governance.
• Experience coordinating and prioritizing multiple sourcing initiatives based on business needs, cost opportunity, complexity, and supply risk.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders, manage competing priorities, remove barriers, and drive resolution of escalations.
• Strong commercial and analytical skills, including supplier negotiations, quotation and cost analysis, business cases, and total cost of ownership.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and cost drivers, including machining, fabrication, and electromechanical assembly.
• Experience supporting supplier transitions, qualification, cost reduction, localization, dual sourcing, and supply risk mitigation initiatives.
• Strong judgment, coaching, facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to guide sourcing decisions and support Sourcing Specialists.
• Experience working with global suppliers and teams, ERP/PLM and project management tools, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and travel up to 30% as needed.
Preferred Skills:
• Master’s Degree or MBA
• Lean, Six Sigma, or other continuous improvement certification or experience.
• Professional certification in Supply Chain, Procurement, Sourcing, or Project Management.
Physical Demands and Working Conditions:
• Ability to work remotely with flexibility to accommodate meetings across global time zones.
• Perform activities such as sitting, standing, or typing for extended periods of time.
• Occasionally moves/positions objects up to 15 pounds.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position for 40% of the time.
• Must be able to communicate information and ideas so others will understand.
• Must be able to exchange accurate information.
• Ability to observe documents and details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Operates in a professional office and/or manufacturing environment.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually average.
Globally, our policy is to recruit individuals from wide and diverse backgrounds. However, certain positions require access to controlled goods and technologies subject to various export control regulations. Applicants for these positions may be limited (by, for example, their countries of citizenship, country of origin, or immigration status) where required by law or governmental contact, and/or employment made contingent upon the issuance of appropriate governmental licensing.
MKS Inc. and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“MKS”) is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer: diverse candidates are encouraged to apply. We win as a team and are committed to recruiting and hiring qualified applicants regardless of race, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), religion, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability or handicap, marital status, membership in the uniformed services, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law. Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs. We conduct background checks and drug screens, in accordance with applicable law and company policies.MKS is generally only hiring candidates who reside in states where we are registered to do business.
MKS is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process due to a disability, please contact us at: .
If applying for a specific job, please include the requisition number (ex: RXXXX), the title and location of the role
Originally posted on Himalayas