Sourcing Specialist
Pubblicato il 01-08-2026 - Hiab in Minerbio
Your mission
Hiab is seeking a data-driven, proactive Sourcing Specialist to join our team. The role focuses on vendor selection and cost-reduction initiatives to meet annual productivity goals. By utilizing global benchmarking and expert negotiation, the specialist will maximize purchasing synergies and leverage company spend.
The candidate will take ownership of sourcing category strategies and uncover new opportunities, executing activities designed to minimize acquisition costs and secure benchmark total cost of ownership. The specialist will oversee comprehensive sourcing operations, ensuring stability of multi-tier supply chains, collaborating on SRM, driving early supplier involvement, and reporting to the Category Manager Hydraulics.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate, identify, develop and execute sourcing activities across Hiab spend to optimize use of Hiab resources over the E2E product lifecycle addressing strategic commercial sourcing requirements, supplier preferencing, securing early focus on service and end‑of‑life requirements, supplier consolidation and pipeline to secure continuity of supply and emerging business needs
- Hiab RFQ preparation, analysis of data, preparation for negotiation and/or negotiation / business award according to delegation of authority
- Identify, propose and later implement and track and implement cost saving actions defined to meet the year on year productivity targets for the category
- Develop open book costings, budgets and raw material forecasting for the suppliers within scope
- Successful cross‑functional participation in New Product Development, Supplier relationship Management (SRM), early supplier involvement and selection with technology development, productivity, total cost reduction make/buy programs, should‑cost modelling, and business process and system implementation
- Manage and improve the Hiab‑wide supplier performance using category supplier development resources and QDCI balanced scorecard methodology to monitor and improve performance across key metrics
- Support new product development by taking ownership and leading all sourcing deliverables within their own area of responsibility, including fulfillment of technical requirements, quality and delivery assurance deliverables
- Lead the QAP process of activities assigned with support of Supplier Development
- Promote and secure supplier participation in Cargotec Supply Chain Finance programs
- Follow Services Strategy Execution including branding to increase capture rate and spare part revenues
- Collaborate in contract negotiation including payment term, quality/warranty/logistics annexes and raw material indices
- Development of supplier risk mitigation programs to ensure minimized disruption within category and business line
- Provide support to upscale, drive recovery plans and resolve supplier quality/delivery issues using root cause analysis tools & methodology to ensure production requirements are secured
- Adherence to and maintenance of all relevant Purchasing processes and systems
What We Are Looking For
- At least 3 years of relevant global industrial experience (truck, construction machines, mining, agriculture or automotive); minimum 3 years relevant work experience in sourcing roles in an international and multi‑site company; experience in working with large suppliers with global multi‑site footprint and managing supplier relations and negotiations
- Project management, cross‑functional improvement teams and supplier development programs; experience in using ERP systems
- Experience in complex steel assemblies / hydraulic systems / electrical & electronics preferred
- Degree Level or Equivalent, with relevant engineering and/or industrial experience
- English requirement: Fluent
- BCC/LCC Sourcing in EMEA and APAC
- Data collection and analysis
What We Offer
- Contract Type: Permanent - CCNL Metalmeccanico Industria & Integrativo Aziendale di secondo livello
- Salary: € 55k – € 65k Gross Annual Salary (RAL), based on experience
Note: The final offer within this range will be determined exclusively by objective, gender‑neutral criteria, such as the candidate's specific skills, professional experience, and technical competencies demonstrated during the interview process.
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