Senior Manager - New Product Development Sourcing (Nottingham or Huntingdon, UK)

Imagine yourself thriving in a supportive team environment that inspires you to strive for excellence. Collaborating with a vibrant, inclusive, global team. It’s all possible with a role at Videojet, a Veralto company. You have likely purchased or used a product touched by Videojet Technologies this week—after all, Videojet is a world leader in the product identification market, providing in-line printing, coding and marking products, consumables, and software solutions. Videojet’s technologies play a critical role in ensuring the safety and authenticity of products sold across the globe in the food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial marketplaces.

We Offer:

• Competitive salary with a bonus plan.
• Healthcare and pension benefits.
• 26 days of annual leave.
• Powerful team in a collaborative mentoring environment.
• Career coaching and development opportunities.

As part of the Videojet team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll work with products that make an everyday impact on the world around you—and along the way, you’ll have opportunities to make your mark on our business and your career with ongoing opportunities to deepen your skillset and pursue your ambitions.

Reporting to the Director, Global Procurement, the Senior Manager – NPD Sourcing will lead Videojet’s global new product development sourcing organization and drive sourcing excellence, supplier readiness, and cost performance across a geographically dispersed team supporting highly complex product development programs. This role is ideal for a leader who thrives in technically complex manufacturing environments and enjoys partnering closely with Engineering, R&D, Operations, and Commodity Management teams to bring innovative technologies to market. The successful candidate will help shape a globally integrated NPD sourcing capability while driving standardization, supplier strategy, and operational excellence across multiple regions and R&D sites. This role will be located in Nottingham or Huntingdon, UK, with a hybrid work arrangement.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Lead and develop a geographically dispersed team of procurement professionals across the US, UK, Germany, and China supporting all active NPD programs.
• Drive sourcing strategies that consistently achieve quality, delivery, cost, sustainability, and production readiness targets.
• Partner closely with Engineering, R&D, Operations, and Commodity Management teams to ensure sourcing activities are fully integrated into NPD stage-gate processes.
• Standardize sourcing tools, best practices, KPIs, and reporting structures across global R&D sites to improve launch execution and scalability.
• Oversee supplier selection, qualification, onboarding, and sourcing readiness for highly complex manufacturing programs.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders to align sourcing decisions with product innovation goals, launch timelines, and total cost objectives.
• Build strong supplier partnerships while supporting long-term sourcing strategies and risk mitigation initiatives.
• Coach and develop team members while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field.
• Significant experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain leadership within complex manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience supporting New Product Development (NPD/NPI) programs and production readiness activities.
• Proven people leadership experience managing geographically dispersed or cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading supplier selection, qualification, onboarding, and commercial negotiations for technically complex products.
• Ability to manage multiple sourcing programs simultaneously while influencing global stakeholders.
• Willingness to travel internationally as needed.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Aerospace, industrial equipment, automation, electronics, medical device, or other highly engineered manufacturing industries.
• ERP/procurement systems such as SAP or Oracle.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies.
• Commodity management or advanced supplier strategy development.
• Cross-cultural leadership within global matrix organizations.
• Sustainability or responsible sourcing initiatives.

Videojet is proud to be part of the Product Quality & Innovation segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™—and building rewarding careers along the way.