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Teledyne Technologies Incorporated provides enabling technologies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.​

We are looking for individuals who thrive on making an impact and want the excitement of being on a team that wins.

Job Description

About Teledyne FLIR Defense

Join Teledyne FLIR Defense, where we're dedicated to supporting critical missions with an exciting range of cutting-edge technologies. Our products include advanced surveillance sensors, unmanned air and ground vehicles, sensing devices used to detect chemicals, biological agents, radiation and explosives, and a host of other solutions that help warfighters, first responders, and search-and-rescue teams do their jobs better.

We're looking for passionate innovators eager to shape the future of the Defense and Public Safety industries. If you’re mission-driven to globally collaborate on solutions that can change the battlefield and save lives, we invite you to explore our current opportunities.

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Job Summary:

The Strategic Sourcing Manager / Strategic Buyer is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies that ensure supply continuity, cost competitiveness, quality, and compliance in a regulated manufacturing environment. This role leads category strategies, supplier selection, contract negotiations, and cost‑reduction initiatives while partnering closely with Engineering, Quality, Operations, and Program Management.

The position focuses on long‑term value creation through supplier partnerships, risk management, and data‑driven decision‑making across direct materials, indirect spend, or assigned commodities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

• Lead RFQs, RFPs, supplier selection, and sourcing decisions for assigned commodities or programs

• Create and manage purchase orders for key suppliers

• Analyze market trends, cost drivers, and supply risks to inform sourcing decisions

• Establish dual‑source and risk‑mitigation strategies for critical materials

• Lead supplier negotiations covering pricing, lead time, commercial terms, and long‑term agreements

• Manage strategic supplier relationships, including performance reviews and corrective actions

• Partner with Engineering and Quality on supplier qualification, audits, and continuous improvement

• Support supplier development initiatives to improve quality, delivery, and cost performance

• Identify and execute cost‑reduction initiatives, including VAVE, should‑cost analysis, and supplier consolidation

• Track, validate, and report realized and forecasted cost savings

• Support annual operating plan (AOP) goals and long‑range cost‑reduction targets

• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Program teams to support NPI and production

• Support manufacturing continuity during supply disruptions

• Ensure compliance with procurement policies, contract terms, export controls, and government regulations

• Maintain accurate sourcing, supplier, and pricing data in SAP and related systems

• Support internal and external audits as required

Required Qualifications

• You must be a U.S. Citizen

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain

• Demonstrated experience leading supplier negotiations and sourcing initiatives

• Experience in a manufacturing and/or regulated environment

• Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP or ERP sourcing experience

• Knowledge of contract terms, pricing structures, and supplier agreements

• Experience supporting NPI, supplier qualification, and supply chain risk management

• CPSM, CSCP, or similar professional certification

Applicants must be either a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, legal permanent resident, asylee, refugee or must be eligible to apply for and obtain the appropriate export control license from the U.S. Departments of State or Commerce.

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Teledyne and all of our employees are committed to conducting business with the highest ethical standards. We require all employees to comply with all applicable laws, regulations, rules and regulatory orders. Our reputation for honesty, integrity and high ethics is as important to us as our reputation for making innovative sensing solutions.

Teledyne is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other characteristic or non-merit based factor made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. ​

You may not realize it, but Teledyne enables many of the products and services you use every day .

Teledyne provides enabling technologies to sense, transmit and analyze information for industrial growth markets, including aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, energy, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research.