At CS Power Systems, we're on a mission to transform lives by delivering clean, solar-powered electricity to millions worldwide—and we're just getting started. As a cutting-edge division of Canadian Solar, a global leader founded in 2001, we stand at the forefront of manufacturing high-performance solar panels, inverters, and advanced energy storage solutions. In this fast-growing, high-impact industry, our deep commitment to sustainability drives everything we do, creating innovative technologies that power a brighter, greener future.
Across Canadian Solar's powerful ecosystem—including CS Power Systems, CSPowerTech, e-STORAGE, Recurrent Energy, MSS, and CSI Solar—we're deeply invested in our people's success. If you're passionate about renewable energy and want to "Make the Difference" by building a lasting positive impact on the planet and communities everywhere, join us at CS Power Systems—where your talent can help shape the clean energy revolution.
Position Summary:We are seeking a Sourcing Manager with a strong background in direct sourcing team supervision. The purpose of this position is to lead, develop and enable a professional team of sourcing specialists who are responsible for the sourcing of the company’s materials. This position is responsible for overseeing daily sourcing activities within the group and ensuring internal customer satisfaction in meeting the company's Solar panels efficiency, capital improvement, maintenance, and operational excellence needs. This position provides guidance and direction to the professional staff in supporting internal business teams in multiple states and jurisdictions in areas such as cost-effective service, optimized delivery of shared services, business technical specification and process standardization efforts, effective supplier engagement and contract coordination.Primary Responsibilities:
- Ensuring efficient and cost-effective supply chain operations from the sourcing team.
- Work closely with Legal, engineering, production, and quality assurance teams to understand material requirements and ensure that procurement strategies support production needs and product quality.
- Manage/source the new supplier development program and maintain current supplier commercial communication to assure the production needs and requirement.
- Utilize negotiation and accountability skills to build effective vendor relationships.
- Manage tracking for the new supplier program cost and timing, organize regular management reviews to ensure the program within budget and launching on time.
- Support cost reduction and other business improvement initiatives.
- Create request for quotation (RFQ); Meet with vendors and select vendors based on price, service and ability to meet production needs.
- Process purchase requisitions from internal departments and ensure proper approvals have been given prior to placing items on order.
- Identify and communicate issues arising from the supply of materials and services with both the vendor and internal material team.
- Monitor, evaluate, and analyze vendor and supplier performance to ensure quality and delivery requirements are met.
- Manage supplier relationships and update management on any issues with vendors.
- Perform new vender & material cost evaluation for management review.
- Identify potential risks in the supply chain and develop contingency plans to mitigate disruptions. Stay informed about market changes and supply chain dynamics that may impact procurement activities.
- Maintain awareness of use of SAP (ERP system).
- All other duties and projects as assigned by Management.
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in business administration, Supply Chain Management or an acceptable combination of education and progressively responsible experience.
- 3-5 years' work experience in an administrative capacity of sourcing, purchasing or supply chain.
- Ability to prioritize tasks with minimal supervision.
- Strong communication skills with all levels of the organization.
- Able to deal with people sensitively, tactfully, confidentially, diplomatically, and professionally always.
- Computer literacy, including effective working skills with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Previous supervisory experience.
- Experience working with multicultural teams
- CPSM certification or equivalent program.
- Experience managing raw materials procurement especially chemicals and gases.
- Knowledge of contract law, commercial terms and conditions, and related legal issues.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in business administration or Supply Chain Management
- 3-5 years' experience in sourcing, purchasing or supply chain
- Strong communication skills
- Computer literacy including MS Office
What We Do
Founded in 2001 in Ontario Canada, Canadian Solar (NASDAQ: CSIQ) is as a global energy provider with successful business subsidiaries in 20 countries & regions on 6 continents. Canadian Solar is both a leading manufacturer of solar PV modules and a provider of solar energy solutions, with over 14,000 employees globally. With state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Canada, China, Brazil and South East Asian countries, Canadian Solar now has module manufacturing capacity and has delivered more than 55 GW of premium quality solar modules to customers in over 150 countries in the past 20 years. Canadian Solar has solar power projects globally and solar power plants that are in commercial operation, with a resale value of US$1.2 billion. In addition, Canadian Solar has a geographically diversified utility-scale solar power project pipeline around 10 GWp, with projects being developed in the U.S., Japan, Latin America,Australia, EMEA, South East Asia, India and China. Of the total project pipeline, 2.9 GWp of projects are at late-stage development and have secured energy offtake agreements. In 2018, Canadian Solar achieved a revenue of US$3.74 billion, Meanwhile, Canadian Solar was listed as the Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Tier 1 Module Manufacturer in terms of bankability for Q4 2018, and was named as Top 3 Global Utility-scale Solar PV Project Developer for 2017 by GTM Research. Canadian Solar Founder and CEO Dr. Shawn Qu blogs as a LinkedIn Influencer at https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnqu/. Canadian Solar is making the difference by delivering more clean, safe and affordable solar energy to the world.
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