Workplace Services Procurement Assistant Director

Job Title

Assistant Director – Regional Workplace Services Leader – EY Global Workplace Procurement Services

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Purchasing and Supply Chain
• Industry: Professional Services
• Locations:
  • Manhattan, NY – $96,706.50 – $ (5 days ago)
  • East Rutherford, NJ – $150,000 – $160,000 (3 weeks ago)
  • New York, NY – $64,350 – $80,000 (2 weeks ago)
  • New York City Metropolitan Area – $135,000 – $150,000 (5 days ago)
  • New York, NY – $91,600 – $130,000 (1 week ago)
  • New York City Metropolitan Area – $65,640 – $109,200 (1 week ago)
  • East Rutherford, NJ – $140,000 – $170,000 (2 weeks ago)
  • New York, NY – $85,000 – $140,000 (1 month ago)
  • New York, NY – $130,000 – $155,000 (20 hours ago)
  • New York City Metropolitan Area – (3 weeks ago)

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EY’s Global Workplace Procurement Services (WPS) team is responsible for developing strategies and negotiating transactions supporting and benefit ting all member firms with a spend of US $450 M annually across our 750+ EY offices and 360,000 people around the globe. The Assistant Director – Regional Workplace Services Leader will lead in developing and delivering procurement strategy, sourcing execution, customer engagement and vendor management across the Workplace Services and Real Estate categories primarily in the United States and other geographies as demand requires.

• End‑to‑end delivery of sourcing projects and category management activities for EY business stakeholders, along with commercial management of key suppliers.
• Act as a trusted business advisor to EY stakeholders, aligning procurement projects with the business’ pipeline and providing Exceptional Customer Services while delivering brand and quantitative value to the bottom line through cost savings and cost avoidance.
• Adherence to EY Procurement policy and processes, including collaboration with Legal (GCO), Risk Management and other EY support functions.
• Provide structured management and accurate progress reporting on all projects.
• Build and manage a pipeline of Procurement projects in support of category strategy/plan and in collaboration with Procurement leaders and global/local stakeholders.
• Lead complex Request for Proposals (RFPs) including strong commercial contractual negotiations, while partnering with stakeholders and shared functions such as GCO, Risk Management and Vendor Assurance.
• Develop strong relationships with key EY business stakeholders and report procurement progress via regular meetings.
• Continuously deliver procurement and category insights to key stakeholders and educate the procurement process to local EY staff and stakeholders as needed.
• Solid knowledge of key suppliers and their position in the market, in addition to working through current market intelligence resources and partners to perform the latest research.
• High quality execution of sourcing projects in line with the Procurement policy and within the timeline as agreed with key stakeholders.
• Minimize contractual risks to EY and manage supplier relationships according to EY’s Procurement and Independence policies.
• Achieve value targets, while innovatively developing new cost reduction strategies to improve negotiable spend via sourcing and demand management activities; including spend consolidation and supplier rationalization.
• Work collaboratively with other EY Procurement leads to deliver projects in regions where there may not be category coverage/support, or when sourcing expertise is required.
• Provide accurate monthly reporting on deals and timely submission of savings forms.

• Demonstrable Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in Workplace or Facilities Management and Real Estate Project procurement.
• A strong team player, comfortable working collaboratively, virtually and independently.
• Excellent communication and networking skills – able to effectively manage and influence senior…