Global Sourcing Manager – Logistics Purchasing & AIML Analytics

Job Description

Work Arrangement
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Warren MI three times per week at minimum.

The Role

The Global Sourcing Manager leads strategic sourcing supplier management and cost-optimization activities for logistics services. The role is ideal for a sourcing procurement data or AI/ML professional who can translate complex freight and supplier data into recommendations that improve cost service resilience visibility and operational performance. The successful candidate brings commercial judgment and analytical capability plus the curiosity and learning agility to become a purchasing logistician through structured development supplier engagement operational exposure and partnership with experienced logistics professionals.

What Youll Do

• Develop and execute sourcing strategies for assigned logistics categories lanes regions and service providers.

• Lead or support RFQs bid events market analyses negotiations award recommendations and contract implementation.

• Analyze transportation requirements network structures capacity service levels accessorials fuel mechanisms risk and total landed cost.

• Balance cost quality service capacity flexibility resiliency sustainability and business continuity in category strategies.

• Maintain the sourcing pipeline benchmarking data strategy presentations budget inputs and on-time metrics; follow GM purchasing accounting and audit requirements.

• Build productive relationships with carriers rail and ocean providers trucking and haulaway providers freight forwarders yard operators technology partners and other logistics suppliers.

• Monitor performance against contracts SLAs cost targets operational requirements and compliance standards; lead KPI reviews and corrective actions.

• Support contracts renewals amendments claims escalations commercial issue resolution and disruption mitigation with legal finance operations and business partners.

• Evaluate supplier financial health capacity safety quality cybersecurity sustainability and operational risk.

• Build repeatable data models dashboards and tools that improve freight-cost sourcing and supplier-performance management.

• Consolidate and normalize data across modes lanes locations rates invoices accessorials fuel capacity service events and contracts.

• Apply AI/ML for forecasting optimization anomaly detection data quality pattern recognition and decision support to surface sourcing opportunities and reduce manual work.

• Document data sources business rules assumptions methods and reusable outputs; validate findings with logistics experts before business use.

• Apply appropriate governance access controls explainability model-risk practices and human review to AI-enabled purchasing decisions.

• Build working knowledge of rail ocean truck haulaway yard management freight forwarding air and container servicesand how they are planned purchased measured and executed.

• Connect sourcing decisions to pickup and delivery performance dwell transit time capacity damage claims inventory flow and customer service.

• Influence without relying solely on formal authority; establish priorities simplify work coach others and promote ethical customer-focused fact-based decision-making

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelors degree in supply chain logistics procurement business finance computer science data science engineering AI/ML or a related field; equivalent professional experience may be considered.

• 2 years of relevant experience in purchasing strategic sourcing supply chain logistics program/product management account management engineering/product development data/analytics or a related discipline (any internship or co-op experience will not be considered)

• Experience managing complex data developing analytical solutions or applying automation AI/ML or other technology to business problems.

• Strong analytical commercial financial negotiation project-management and problem-solving skills; ability to interpret contracts pricing structures cost drivers supplier proposals and performance data.

• Data judgment: uses automated tools appropriately analyzes information objectively and draws meaningful conclusions.

• Informative communication and relationship management; communicates clearly with executives suppliers operations leaders technical teams and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Results focus and workload management; takes initiative prioritizes critical work manages multiple workstreams and delivers on time.

• Willingness to learn logistics through structured training site visits supplier meetings operational reviews and collaboration with subject-matter experts.

• SAP experience or the ability to learn purchasing systems

• Willingness to travel approximately 510% domestically and internationally.

What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience sourcing transportation freight forwarding warehousing containers manufacturing services or other supply chain categories.

• Experience with logistics management transportation management supply chain planning ERP/procurement systems business intelligence tools SQL Python cloud data platforms or machine-learning frameworks.

• Knowledge of transportation cost structures rate and tariff models fuel surcharges accessorials lane economics service-level agreements capacity and materials management or contract law as applied to purchasing.

• Experience developing AI/ML use cases for forecasting optimization anomaly detection classification natural-language analysis or decision support.

• Automotive manufacturing commodity cost-analysis or engineering-document experience; ability to interpret market trends and regulatory considerations.

• Masters degree in supply chain business administration data science computer science AI/ML engineering or a related field.

• Experience leading cross-functional transformation digital procurement or enterprise-scale analytics initiatives.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g. H1-B OPT STEM OPT CPT TN J-1 etc). This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week or other frequency dictated by their manager. The selected candidate will be required to travel <25% for this role. This job is not eligible for relocation benefits. Any relocation costs would be the responsibility of the selected candidate.

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