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Reporting to the Supply Chain Manager, this role will serve as a senior individual contributor responsible for translating broader commodity and supply chain strategies into effective site-level sourcing plans and execution. The Strategic Sourcing Lead will manage critical and strategic supplier relationships, lead sourcing, and negotiation activities, and support a resilient supply of electronic components, circuit boards, and custom hardware.\nThis role will partner closely with the Electronics Commodity Manager to align site sourcing activities with enterprise commodity strategies while addressing local production, supplier performance, and material requirements. Who are we? Founded in 1849, Ducommun is the oldest company in California.\nStarting as a hardware supply store during the California Gold Rush and eventually assisted in the birth of the aerospace industry in Southern California by providing aircraft aluminum to early aerospace pioneers like Lindbergh, Douglas and Lockheed. Today Ducommun is a global provider of innovative manufacturing solutions for customers in the aerospace, defense and industrial markets. We specialize in electronic and structural systems, producing complex products and components for commercial aircraft platforms, mission-critical military and space programs, and sophisticated industrial applications.\nOur Facility in Appleton, WI manufactures state-of-the-art circuit boards for Aerospace and Defense as well as Industrial and Medical Industries. Job Summary Site Sourcing Strategy: Develop and execute site-level sourcing plans aligned with enterprise commodity strategies, focused on material availability, supplier performance, risk reduction, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Commodity Alignment: Partner closely with the Electronics Commodity Manager to implement enterprise supplier and commodity strategies at the site level while providing insight into local supplier performance, market conditions, risks, and constraints.\nSupplier Relationship Management: Manage relationships with critical and strategic site suppliers, lead quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and drive continuous improvement across quality, delivery, cost, capacity, responsiveness, and overall supplier performance. Supplier Performance Development: Monitor supplier performance, lead supplier escalations and corrective action efforts, and partner with internal stakeholders and suppliers to drive measurable and sustainable performance improvement. Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify single-source risks, component obsolescence (DMSMS), electronic component shortages, capacity constraints, and other supply risks, and develop appropriate mitigation and alternate sourcing plans.\nContract Negotiation: Lead the development, negotiation, and management of site-specific Long-Term Agreements (LTAs), Service Level Agreements (SLAs), pricing agreements, and other supplier commercial arrangements within established authority levels. Operational Support: Partner with Operations, Planning, Engineering, Quality, and other key stakeholders to address material constraints, improve lead times, support production requirements, and ensure sourcing decisions align with customer and business priorities. Supplier Qualification: Partner with Engineering and Quality to evaluate, qualify, and onboard new suppliers in accordance with applicable aerospace, defense, quality, and company requirements.\nCost Value Improvement: Lead site-level cost reduction and value improvement initiatives by analyzing spend, supplier performance, market conditions, and sourcing opportunities to identify negotiation leverage and efficiencies.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3855,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","Manufacturing","Space & Aerospace"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-03T11:37:04Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":35,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.788,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":60,"expected_fill_days":60,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-11-01T06:10:25Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-01T16:13:07Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":24987,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-02T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2648928},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2648928"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fducommun-strategic-sourcing-lead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1758136}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"ducommun.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1758136},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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