• Return savings to the sites through negotiations and new projects to strategically lower costs. • Defend against increases both material and tariff related. • Responsible for all supplier commercial relationships within the assigned business areas, securing targeted levels of cost, quality, delivery, sustainability, and supply continuity. • Support new product development activities across the business unit by setting supplier strategies, managing costs to meet product margin goals, and helping to launch product to mass production. • Develop and implement assigned Supplier strategies that meet internal and external customer commercial, technical, and quality demands. • Drive new product awards to preferred suppliers. • Complete and manage the lifecycle of supplier contracts including corporate agreements, annual pricing negotiations and awards, payment terms, and inventory. • Develop and align Supplier technical roadmaps in partnership with Sales and Engineering. • In working with sites, is responsible for supplier performance and rating based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Quality, Delivery, and Cost. • Drive Supplier and spend consolidation across multiple sites within the NA region in alignment with corporate goals and direction. • Find, assess, and develop new Suppliers as needed in accordance with corporate direction and in alignment with Sales and Engineering. • In working with sites, assess and complete Purchase Price Variance (PPV) activities including budgeting, forecasting, and reducing PPV impact to the business. • Support sites on a when-needed basis to ensure critical customer service levels are maintained through supplier escalation, alternate sourcing, secondary sourcing.