Sourcing Project Lead

Sourcing Project Lead

The Sourcing Project Lead is responsible for coordinating external supply chain activities from project initiation through to execution and closeout. This role ensures alignment with the project strategy and collaborates with the project team to maintain the sourcing strategy, facilitating effective coordination of external supply chain activities.

Responsibilities :

• Define and execute the external supply chain strategy with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with project requirements and timelines.
• Prepare the external supply chain project plan, focusing on strategy, schedule, and budget.
• Achieve savings targets by applying standard levers through the Sourcing Team while meeting project cost, schedule, and quality requirements.
• Coordinate external supply chain activities with category managers for assigned projects.
• Develop new suppliers and alternative material sources with Category Managers, focusing on high quality and low cost, particularly from best cost countries.
• Participate in project planning, scheduling, and production control.
• Maintain the project purchasing dashboard using standard tools.
• Consolidate and validate internal and external budgets for sourcing, logistics, and quality.
• Track and manage project costs and time variances, taking actions to prevent budget deviations.
• Interface with project management and engineering to maintain material targets and sourcing resource requirements.
• Identify critical and strategic suppliers in collaboration with category management.
• Focus on project objectives, including contractual conditions, purchasing budget, planning, and quality.
• Anticipate available discounts and maintain the committed budget.
• Set the external supply chain planning for purchasing and delivery teams, ensuring consistency with the overall project planning.
• Work with the external supply chain team to achieve project milestones, deliveries, and deadline compliance.
• Summarize external supply chain activities for the project.
• Review the project external supply chain budget, risk and opportunities matrix with stakeholders and functional management, ensuring progress and updates.
• Ensure compliance with company procedures and processes.
• Participate in best cost country sourcing to optimize purchasing value.
• Identify underperforming suppliers during the project life cycle.
• Engage in Value Analysis and Kaizen blitz projects to improve sourcing.
• Utilize company software applications such as SAP, Pyramid, DMT, the Vault Document Storage, and Microsoft applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Essential Skills :

Additional Skills & Qualifications :

Work Environment :

The position is based in an office environment, working alongside 10 other Sourcing Project Leads and collaborating with others virtually. The work setting includes cubicles within a beautiful building with a great company culture. The role offers a hybrid work model with two in-office days per week, with additional days during the initial training period.

Job Type & Location :

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Glen Allen, VA.

Pay and Benefits :

The pay range for this position is $27.50 / hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following :

Application Deadline :

This position is anticipated to close on Nov 25, 2025.

About Aston Carter :

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing double diamond winner for both client and talent service. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.