Strategic Relationship Manager

Overview

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

The SRM is an experienced procurement professional who is developing strategic relationship management expertise to help optimize the value of and manage the relationships between Church organizations and preferred suppliers and vendors.

Specific duties include the following:

• Manage supplier relationships: leverage Church enterprise expenditures to qualify, negotiate, select, and establish legal contracts with vendors of products and services at the best value for the Church. Ensure supplier performance of contracted terms and conditions.
• Understand and articulate customer and internal partner needs: document, design solutions for, and ensure that both product and service needs of sponsoring organizations are satisfied at the best possible value; interact with vendors, consultants and professional groups; serve as a product and service industry authority.
• Meet procurement needs: use Purchasing tools including eMarket, People Soft, and AX/Dynamics 365 to accept requisitions, create purchase orders, expedite orders, and create catalogs of frequently used goods and services.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience required
• Seasoned supply-chain knowledge and experience, and experience in supplier relationship management, strategic sourcing, outsourcing or purchasing
• Well developed interpersonal skills and ability to negotiate and resolve conflicts
• Up to 15% domestic and international travel for up to 2 weeks at a time

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPM or CPSM certification