Job Description

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As a Sourcing Specialist Associate your goal is to support sourcing and purchasing efforts within an assigned finished goods commodity, assisting in achieving objectives. This role focuses on providing support to cost reduction and process improvement projects and aids in supply base improvement activities. #LI-MD1 #LI-Hybrid

You will do this by:

• Assisting in supplier marketing surveys, assessments, and development
• Supporting the follow-up of RFQs, Liability Insurance, Tooling POs, and Production with the corporate team
• Assisting in communicating company requirements of processes to suppliers
• Aiding in measuring and improving supplier performance and helps maintain supplier lists
• Helping to maintain Documentation Control according to B&S sourcing procedures
• Assisting in selecting supplier intelligence information to support sourcing project team decisions
• Supporting the follow-up of Supplier Finance Wellness and Confidential Agreements with the team and providing support on customer social accountability audits
• Assisting in audits of the implementation of the Sourcing Playbook
• Supporting internal department audits and assists in following up on corrective action plan implementation

The above statements are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of position responsibilities. 

You are the kind of person who is/has:

• driven and ambitious
• resourceful
• analytical

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain Operations or related field
• 0-2 years experience in sourcing and supplier development

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in a cross-functional environment
• Previous related internship experience
• Previous work in/experience with a global environment/culture

Additional Knowledge & Skills:

• Self-motivated, results-driven/goal-oriented with customer focus and a sense of urgency
• Good written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to interact with diverse groups of people
• Basic project management and time management skills
• Ability to learn to read blueprints
• Able to use Microsoft Office and Google software applications
• Sound presentation skills at all levels
• Fluent in English and primary language used in area of responsibility and/or location

Travel Required: 

• % of Travel: up to 10%
• How often: as needed
• Where: domestic

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Location: 

• Wauwatosa, WI (hybrid eligible)

Briggs & Stratton, headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provides innovative products and diverse power solutions to help people get work done. Briggs & Stratton is the world’s largest producer of engines for outdoor power equipment, and is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of lithium-ion battery, standby generator, energy storage system, lawn and garden, turf care and job site products through its Briggs & Stratton®, Vanguard®, Ferris®, Simplicity®, Billy Goat®, Allmand®, SimpliPhi®, Branco® and Victa® brands. Briggs & Stratton products are designed, manufactured, marketed and serviced in more than 100 countries on six continents.

Briggs & Stratton is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity. The Company conducts all employment practices without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran's status, pregnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation or any other basis prohibited by law. Briggs & Stratton also undertakes affirmative action to assure equal employment opportunity for minorities and women, for persons with disabilities, and for protected veterans.

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