Supply Chain Specialist - Cost Out, Risk & Resiliency

What you’ll do:

Position Summary
The Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for executing critical initiatives that improve supply chain resilience, mitigate risk, and deliver cost savings across IBP sites. This role leads cross-functional efforts to ensure business continuity, supplier stability, and cost competitiveness while driving timely execution of mitigation and cost-out strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

Risk & Resiliency Execution

• Identify supplier risks impacting continuity, quality, and delivery
• Develop and execute mitigation strategies (dual sourcing, alternate suppliers, safety stock)
• Lead risk escalation and ensure timely issue resolution across sites
• Maintain visibility of risk status, mitigation actions, and recovery plans

Cost Out / Productivity

• Identify and execute cost reduction opportunities across suppliers and materials
• Lead supplier negotiations with GPO, benchmarking, and RFQs to drive savings
• Support should-cost and total cost of ownership (TCO) initiatives
• Track and deliver cost-out commitments aligned to business targets

Cross-Functional Execution

• Lead cross-site alignment on risk mitigation and cost-out priorities
• Facilitate sourcing reviews, risk calls, and recovery actions
• Drive accountability for action items, timelines, and deliverables
• Partner with Category Management, Planning, Operations, and Engineering
• Support any plant or divisional events related to Cost-out or Resiliency

Key Outcomes / KPIs

• Reduction in supply disruption incidents
• Improved supplier resiliency (dual sourcing, recovery readiness)
• Delivery of cost-out targets
• On-time closure of critical risk mitigation actions

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited educational institution.
• Minimum of 2 years of supply chain experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience managing and analyzing data, maintaining accurate records, and utilizing business systems, databases, and standard software applications to support operational decision-making and process efficiency.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, or Business.
• Minimum of 2 years of project management experience, including leading cross-functional initiatives, managing timelines, and driving projects to successful completion.
• Experience managing supplier risk, cost initiatives, and escalations.
• Strong negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of materials planning, inventory management, supply chain processes, business reporting, and trade compliance within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience with Microsoft Office products, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.