Senior Manager, Strategic Procurement

* Develop and implement comprehensive supplier and sourcing strategies for the Global Enterprise  that continually improves quality, cost, and service across all Commerce  business operations.
* Drive the sourcing process, lead sourcing, support Master Services Agreements, SaaS, Statement of Work development, and analyze/evaluate rates to optimize supplier engagements.
* Track record of successfully sourcing with a variety of suppliers (e.g., Google, Sales Force, AWS, etc.).
* Lead cross-divisional business teams including Global and Divisional IT teams, Legal, and Finance in the successful implementation of strategies, contract negotiations, and project planning.
* Achieve annual productivity targets within a Global Procurement productivity framework.
* Proactively manage the category by tracking spend by vendor; and developing preferred supplier analysis, with a goal of optimizing the number of suppliers while maximizing year over year savings.
* Work with  internal teams to lead RFP, RFQ, RFI, competitive bids, maintenance renewals, and miscellaneous projects.
* Lead sourcing, support Master Services Agreement and Statement of Work development, and analyze/evaluate rates to optimize supplier engagements.
* Drive process efficiencies and eliminate waste.
* Ensure use of Commerce policies as well as terms and conditions to ensure best in class economics and minimized risk.
* Manage supplier performance against key metrics to drive continuous improvement.
* Research and implement industry best practices.
* Lead the build-out of a strategic procurement function, including scoping the opportunity for early wins, building policies to drive change, and building a roadmap for long-term procurement discipline
* Build a schedule of existing contracts and net new contracts which require renegotiation and build prioritization criteria to determine which should undergo a formal RFP process
* Efficiently conduct supplier negotiations via process driven methodologies (i.e. RFI, RFP, RFQ)
* Increase capacity for strategic sourcing engagements to improve measurable financial results
* Partner with business and budget owners to serve as a critical team member supporting strategic programs, negotiations, contract management, and other priorities.
* Serve as lead negotiator for sourcing agreements that result in quantifiable, positive results
* Quantify and calculate financial benefits of negotiations and program deployments suitable for SVP Finance approval
* Create and present summary-level results to executive management monthly
* Drive cost savings, increased value, and higher ROI in both the information technology space and in marketing spend agreements based on fixed fee, CPC, CPM, and other variable consideration bases
* Work with departmental stakeholders to drive improved vendor management practices, including maintaining quarterly business reviews and roadmap alignment discussions with key vendors
* Manage a procurement administrative specialist in Mexico
* Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT or related field or equivalent work experience required
* Ideally, experience with procurement of Enterprise software tools (Perpetual licenses, Appliances, SaaS) and IT services.
* Strong collaboration, communication, and influencing skills.
* Strong strategic, analytical, and project management skills.
* Won’t compromise values to get results. Results focused.
* 8-10 years’ work experience in Procurement, Finance, or IT, with a history of success in a breadth of prior challenging experiences.
* Advanced expertise with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word is required - must maintain complex spreadsheets.
* Experience managing a small team, preferably offshore.
* Project management and Six Sigma experiences are differentiators
* A flexible, dynamic, self-demanding, innovative, and proactive individual with a natural bias to take action and deal with ambiguity
* Strong orientation to relationship building, collaboration, confidentiality, and integrity
* Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal and presentation skills; comfortable and credible with both internal stakeholders and external suppliers, across global markets.
* Can persevere and is resilient in the pursuit of objectives, willing to take on new challenges; and works to resolve tough issues.
* Able to lead and manage multiple tasks simultaneously and assess priorities appropriately
* Competent level of quantitative and analytical skills to build financial business cases that impact annual operating budgets and value delivered per negotiation or project completion
* Skilled in negotiating, managing, and extracting value
* Strategic, analytical, and adept at problem solving
* Demonstrates and maintains a professional demeanor in all situations
* Takes initiative to find ways to get better results, seeks and takes advantage of ideas, best practices and solutions
* Able to work a hybrid schedule (3 days per week in office)
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