**Your Career Begins at Timken**If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Timken. Our associates make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.**Purpose and Scope**This position is directly accountable for creating a long-term competitive advantage through the development and management of a supply base that provides quality products/services that meet/exceed expectation to help advance the business with lowest total cost.**Responsibilities**- Regional supplier development to support global Commodity Sourcing Strategies.- Negotiate price, quantity, and delivery with suppliers.- Develop and maintain strong internal customer and external supplier relationships to advance long term valued added supplier partners.- Supplier performance management.- Total cost of ownership reduction in areas of cost, inventory, quality, service, and innovation.- Execute sourcing events including issuing RFQ, analyzing data from proposals, negotiating terms and conditions, and preparing NDAs.- Develop and finalize supply agreement and service level agreements in accordance with business, financial, legal, and regulatory requirements.- Drive resolution of SAP transactional issues related to purchase to pay process between plant/purchasing and supplier.**Technical/Functional Skills**Interpersonal & team skillsCommunicationSupplier management and collaborationNegotiatingContinuous improvement processProject managementProposal writingERP/SAP knowledge**Education / Experience**Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Marketing, Business, Engineering or Manufacturing with 5+ years' experience in related field.All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.