Senior Sourcing Manager – Technology, Services, and Partnerships

Responsibilities Leadership

• Take ownership and responsibility for proactively leading and managing strategic sourcing initiatives
• Direct, define, and implement sourcing strategies and initiatives to drive the delivery of growth strategy, and business transformation objectives for responsible categories
• Contribute suggestions and assist management in development of category strategy, including operational roadmaps
• Develop plans to achieve team’s strategic priorities, goals and objectives planning projects accordingly
• Proactively build relationships with and influences internal and external stakeholders
• Partner with Global Souring team to implement global suppliers, category strategies to ensure local support
• Demonstrate and practice a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all business activities
• Keep abreast of industry innovation and bring ideas that will help the company re-imagine and leap frog ahead resulting in advancements in technologies, process methodologies or establishing supplier alliances

• Conduct opportunity assessment with the right balance of strategic insights (spend, supplier, category, contract) and current state illustration to drive senior stakeholder engagement
• Evaluate and recommend strategic opportunities/initiatives to Strategic Sourcing leadership utilizing current and emerging business models, assessing short-term and long-term industry and strategic considerations
• Develop an effective approach to present and obtain sponsorship from senior leadership on opportunities, including alternative strategies assessments.
• Conduct opportunity assessment with or without support of Strategic Sourcing Analyst

• Provide category expertise and leverage that understanding to determine potential sources of supply, determine capabilities of suppliers’ product and service offerings, and relate offerings to stakeholder needs
• Determine the right sourcing process considering bidding approach, formal and informal negotiations, and structure process to resolve conflicts and build consensus
• Drive project activity across large cross-functional team through communication of expectations, decisions, changes, enforcement of deadlines, and creation and evaluation of deliverables
• Define data needed to meet objectives and develop an effective plan for gathering it (including spend, contracts, supplier information, stakeholder insights, current state process & tools)
• Utilize analysis to solve business problems. Draw conclusions and insights that are not immediately obvious
• Gather, analyze, and document requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, business analysis, and task and workflow analysis
• Lead and Manage RFI/RFQ/RFPs from start to finish, which includes creation, issuance, and facilitation of the entire process, through vendor evaluations (using scorecards) and vendor selection
• Direct the negotiation of highly complex, enterprise-wide, strategic supplier partners. Drive best value for the organization based specific project requirements and marketplace conditions.
• Manage issues & risks and communicate to management. Consult with senior management and project management experts as needed. Facilitate communication between project team and stakeholders
• Drive consensus across critical business decisions that are complex and high impact to the organization
• Create supporting documentation to applicable standards such that the value generated can be included in executive-level presentations
• Lead projects that drive price reduction, optimized demand, vendor consolidation and process improvement

• Partner with stakeholders to review ongoing vendor segmentation and identify strategic vendors to be included in vendor management programs
• Perform assigned vendor management activities (business reviews, scorecard reviews, discussions) in alignment with client teams
• Manages supplier performance monitoring and measurement and work with vendor owners on key escalations or remediations
• Identify…