Lights Sourcing Engineer

What you'll love about this job This role offers the unique opportunity to blend engineering, procurement, and strategic sourcing into one impactful position. You'll work directly with engineers, suppliers, and business leaders to influence product design, manufacturing decisions, and long-term sourcing strategies. From evaluating PCBAs, rechargeable batteries, LEDs, and low-voltage electronic components to supporting tooling, packaging, aluminum manufacturing, and industrial design initiatives, you'll gain exposure to a wide range of technologies and products. You'll have the opportunity to lead sourcing projects, develop supplier partnerships, build business cases, conduct should-cost and benchmark analyses, and contribute to new product launches from concept to market. If you enjoy solving complex technical and commercial challenges, using data to drive decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to create innovative products and cost-saving opportunities, this is a role where your expertise and ideas will make a visible impact on the business. This is Energizer Holdings, Inc. Energizer Holdings responsibly creates products to make lives easier and more enjoyable. To do this, we lean into our culture as an organization – we win together, while serving each other, with a willingness to act boldly, all while doing right. Our colleagues hail from all backgrounds, nationalities and walks of life, but our shared mission and purpose make us one team. Because we’re a global organization, you will always have opportunities to learn, grow and develop in your career. We support flexible working arrangements wherever possible.

Summary The Lights Sourcing Engineer plays a critical role in supporting the development and execution of category and supplier strategies while partnering closely with Engineering, R&D, Operations, Quality, and Supply Chain teams. This position combines strong technical expertise with procurement and analytical capabilities to identify cost, quality, innovation, and supply continuity opportunities across assigned product categories and suppliers. The role is responsible for conducting detailed market and supplier analysis, developing category and supplier profiles, maintaining supplier performance scorecards, supporting supplier negotiations, and driving sourcing projects from concept through commercialization. The Sourcing Engineer serves as a key technical liaison with suppliers and internal engineering teams, leveraging expertise in electrical and mechanical components, manufacturing processes, and product design to support new product development, supplier risk management, cost modeling, and strategic sourcing initiatives. Success in this role requires strong stakeholder management, advanced analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and suppliers to deliver innovative, cost-effective solutions that align with business objectives.

Universal Accountabilities Conduct quantitative analysis using Excel, PowerBi, and dashboards Develop category and supplier profiles and present to leadership/stakeholders Ensure supplier scorecards are up to date and maintain accurate and timely information on the supplier Support negotiations with suppliers and cost model development across their category and lead efforts for their assigned sub-categories/suppliers Support New Product Development for assigned sub-categories/suppliers Support supplier risk management for assigned sub-categories/suppliers Understand the importance of stakeholder management and begin to engage stakeholders Support the development category specific pipeline Specific Accountabilities Conducts reliable analysis when requested Manages day-to-day supplier relationship activities Supports risk and compliance program management Conducts supply market analysis Executes sourcing and product cycle plan projects independently Tracks procurement performance metrics Demonstrates