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Sourcing Manager roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship under the specialty occupation standard, typically requiring a bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, or a related field. Employers file the LCA with DOL before sponsoring, and the annual cap means timing your job search around the April lottery window matters.
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The Opportunity
The Strategic Sourcing Purchasing Agent reports directly to the Director of Procurement Services and serves as a key member of the University's Procurement team. This position partners closely with departments across the University to provide procurement guidance, process purchase requisitions, source goods and services, support competitive solicitation processes including Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Invitations to Negotiate (ITNs), and Requests for Quotations (RFQs), and ensure compliance with University policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
The Purchasing Agent works collaboratively with faculty, staff, administrators, and internal stakeholders to deliver exceptional customer service while supporting the University's operational, academic, and strategic objectives. The role contributes to strategic sourcing initiatives through spend analysis, supplier engagement, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and sourcing strategy development designed to optimize value, reduce risk, contain costs, and improve procurement outcomes. The position also serves as a procurement consultant to University departments by promoting best practices and identifying opportunities to leverage University-wide spending.
The successful candidate will be able to work independently on complex projects requiring sound judgment, strong analytical skills, and demonstrated procurement expertise while collaborating with Procurement leadership to identify opportunities for spend consolidation, supplier leverage, process improvement, and operational efficiencies. This position plays an active role in supporting solicitation activities, evaluating supplier proposals, measuring sourcing performance, and implementing strategic purchasing initiatives that advance the University's procurement objectives.
About us
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.
- Generous Time Off: Enjoy up to 18 days of paid leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15 days accrued throughout the year. You'll also receive 9+ paid holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
- Tuition Coverage: Get 100% tuition coverage for yourself for one undergraduate and one graduate degree, and discounted rates for your spouse and dependent children up to age 26.
- Retirement Contributions: ERAU contributes 6% of your base salary to your retirement plan and offers a 4% matching contribution – with no vesting period.
- Personal Leave: Relax with 15 days of personal leave for non-exempt employees or 18 days for exempt full-time employees in your first year.
Qualifications
Required Education and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or a related field required.
Experience
- Minimum of 1–3 years of relevant work experience in accounting or finance.
Skills and Abilities
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- In-depth knowledge of supply chain and procurement functions and procedures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to deliver high levels of customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to work proactively and drive process improvements.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Experience using procurement tracking systems and tools.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Strong budgeting and financial process awareness.
- Comfortable working collaboratively with both the Budget Office and Controller’s Office on payment and process-related issues.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and in stressful situations.
- High level of accountability and willingness to take ownership of tasks, decisions, and outcomes.
To submit your application for this opportunity, please visit the Embry-Riddle Career Site and search for requisition number R312076. Please attach all relevant materials to your application when you apply online. Complete submissions include:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Contact information for at least three professional references (please note that references may be contacted as part of the interview/screening process)
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within Workday.
Embry-Riddle is committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected. We strive to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students are treated fairly and provided equal opportunities for employment, advancement, compensation, training, and other benefits of employment. Embry-Riddle makes employment decisions — including hiring, promotions, compensation, and other terms of employment — based on individual merit, qualifications, and abilities. Embry-Riddle is strongly opposed to discrimination and harassment, and such behavior is prohibited by university policy. Embry-Riddle does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, or pregnancy status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law, in its employment, educational programs, admissions policies, financial aid, or other school-administered programs or activities. For further information, please visit our website.
Embry-Riddle is not seeking assistance from staffing or recruitment agencies. All agencies are directed to contact eraujobs@erau.edu and should not reach out to hiring managers or staff.
Job Description
The Opportunity
The Strategic Sourcing Purchasing Agent reports directly to the Director of Procurement Services and serves as a key member of the University's Procurement team. This position partners closely with departments across the University to provide procurement guidance, process purchase requisitions, source goods and services, support competitive solicitation processes including Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Invitations to Negotiate (ITNs), and Requests for Quotations (RFQs), and ensure compliance with University policies and applicable regulatory requirements.
The Purchasing Agent works collaboratively with faculty, staff, administrators, and internal stakeholders to deliver exceptional customer service while supporting the University's operational, academic, and strategic objectives. The role contributes to strategic sourcing initiatives through spend analysis, supplier engagement, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and sourcing strategy development designed to optimize value, reduce risk, contain costs, and improve procurement outcomes. The position also serves as a procurement consultant to University departments by promoting best practices and identifying opportunities to leverage University-wide spending.
The successful candidate will be able to work independently on complex projects requiring sound judgment, strong analytical skills, and demonstrated procurement expertise while collaborating with Procurement leadership to identify opportunities for spend consolidation, supplier leverage, process improvement, and operational efficiencies. This position plays an active role in supporting solicitation activities, evaluating supplier proposals, measuring sourcing performance, and implementing strategic purchasing initiatives that advance the University's procurement objectives.
About us
For over 100 years, Embry-Riddle has been the world's leading aviation and aerospace university, educating more than 30,000 students across residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, as well as through a global network of Worldwide locations and online programs. With more than 165,000 alumni around the world, our impact reaches every corner of the aerospace, aviation, defense and technology industries.
Today, our faculty, researchers and professional staff are advancing innovation across aviation, space, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, autonomous systems and next-generation engineering. Working alongside industry leaders, government agencies and innovators, they are solving real-world challenges and shaping the technologies that will define tomorrow.
Whether you are an educator, researcher, administrator, technologist or industry professional, your work at Embry-Riddle will contribute to something bigger than a job. Join a community driven by discovery, purpose and excellence—and help shape the future of aerospace.
- Generous Time Off: Enjoy up to 18 days of paid leave in your first year, including 3 days granted upon hire and 15 days accrued throughout the year. You'll also receive 9+ paid holidays, including the day after Thanksgiving and the week between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day.
- Tuition Coverage: Get 100% tuition coverage for yourself for one undergraduate and one graduate degree, and discounted rates for your spouse and dependent children up to age 26.
- Retirement Contributions: ERAU contributes 6% of your base salary to your retirement plan and offers a 4% matching contribution – with no vesting period.
- Personal Leave: Relax with 15 days of personal leave for non-exempt employees or 18 days for exempt full-time employees in your first year.
Qualifications
Required Education and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or a related field required.
Experience
- Minimum of 1–3 years of relevant work experience in accounting or finance.
Skills and Abilities
- Strong negotiation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- In-depth knowledge of supply chain and procurement functions and procedures.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Proven ability to deliver high levels of customer service to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to work proactively and drive process improvements.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Experience using procurement tracking systems and tools.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Strong budgeting and financial process awareness.
- Comfortable working collaboratively with both the Budget Office and Controller’s Office on payment and process-related issues.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure and in stressful situations.
- High level of accountability and willingness to take ownership of tasks, decisions, and outcomes.
To submit your application for this opportunity, please visit the Embry-Riddle Career Site and search for requisition number R312076. Please attach all relevant materials to your application when you apply online. Complete submissions include:
- Cover letter
- Resume
- Contact information for at least three professional references (please note that references may be contacted as part of the interview/screening process)
Current Embry-Riddle employees: Please apply directly through the ERAU Employee Hub Central application within Workday.
Embry-Riddle is committed to fostering a workplace where all individuals are valued and respected. We strive to ensure that all faculty, staff, and students are treated fairly and provided equal opportunities for employment, advancement, compensation, training, and other benefits of employment. Embry-Riddle makes employment decisions — including hiring, promotions, compensation, and other terms of employment — based on individual merit, qualifications, and abilities. Embry-Riddle is strongly opposed to discrimination and harassment, and such behavior is prohibited by university policy. Embry-Riddle does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, veteran status, predisposing genetic characteristics, age, religion, or pregnancy status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law, in its employment, educational programs, admissions policies, financial aid, or other school-administered programs or activities. For further information, please visit our website.
Embry-Riddle is not seeking assistance from staffing or recruitment agencies. All agencies are directed to contact eraujobs@erau.edu and should not reach out to hiring managers or staff.
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Map your degree to the role
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to sourcing management duties. A supply chain, business, or industrial engineering degree strengthens your specialty occupation argument. If your degree is in an adjacent field, document how your coursework maps to procurement and vendor management functions.
Check LCA filings by occupation code
Sourcing Manager roles file under SOC codes like 11-3061 (Purchasing Managers). Use Migrate Mate to filter employers by that occupation code and see verified LCA filing history, so you target companies with a real track record of sponsoring this specific role.
Prioritize cap-exempt or early-filing employers
Universities, nonprofits, and government research organizations are cap-exempt, meaning they can file your H-1B petition any time of year. If you're on OPT, target these employers to avoid the April lottery entirely and start sooner.
Verify the prevailing wage before negotiating
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for a Sourcing Manager in your work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up Level I through Level IV wages for your county before salary discussions, so you negotiate from an informed position.
Ask employers about cap-gap coverage timing
If your OPT expires before October 1, the cap-gap rule extends your work authorization automatically once USCIS receives the petition. Confirm your employer plans to file before your OPT end date so there's no gap in your authorization during the adjudication period.
Cross-reference O*NET before your petition review
USCIS officers sometimes question whether a Sourcing Manager role qualifies as a specialty occupation. Pull the O*NET occupation profile for Purchasing Managers to document the typical education requirement for the role and include it in your supporting evidence.
H-1B Visa Sourcing Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Sourcing Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as supply chain management, business administration, or industrial engineering. The key is that your employer's job requirements must reflect that degree-level knowledge is a genuine requirement, not just a preference. Generic purchasing roles that accept any degree can draw a Request for Evidence from USCIS, so the job description wording matters.
Which employers are most likely to sponsor H-1B visas for Sourcing Manager jobs?
Large manufacturers, retailers, and technology companies with established global supply chains file the most H-1B LCAs for sourcing and procurement roles. Employers already enrolled in E-Verify are a reliable signal of H-1B sponsorship readiness. You can browse employers with verified LCA filing history for Sourcing Manager roles on Migrate Mate, filtered by occupation code so you're not guessing.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Sourcing Manager H-1B sponsorship?
Your employer must certify in the LCA that they'll pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for a Sourcing Manager at your specific work location and experience level. Wages are tiered from Level I through Level IV based on complexity and supervision. If the offered salary falls below the applicable wage level, DOL will reject the LCA before the petition even reaches USCIS, so wage alignment is a prerequisite, not a formality.
Can I change employers while on H-1B status as a Sourcing Manager?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, you can start working for a new employer as soon as USCIS receives the transfer petition, without waiting for approval, as long as you've been in valid H-1B status for at least 180 days. Your new employer files a fresh I-129 petition, and your existing H-1B status transfers. The new LCA must reflect the prevailing wage for your new work location, which matters if you're relocating.
Does remote work affect my H-1B sponsorship as a Sourcing Manager?
Remote work creates an LCA worksite issue. If you work from a location not listed on the original LCA, your employer may need to file a new or amended LCA and potentially an amended I-129 petition reflecting that worksite. USCIS has been scrutinizing remote work arrangements since 2021. Confirm with your employer whether your home address is covered before you start working remotely full-time.