We are seeking meticulous and driven individuals to join our Global Procurement Technology Sourcing team as a Sourcing Manager. In this role, you will use your category experience, technical aptitude, and data analysis skills to drive negotiations, bring efficiencies, meet regulatory and audit requirements, and create insightful reporting. you will leverage your analytical skills and business acumen to gather and analyze data, identify areas for improvement, collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop actionable insights and recommendations to optimize our procurement processes and drive cost savings. The ideal candidate will have excellent category management skills in Technology, Software, and Hardware in addition to analytical skills, and the ability to develop presentations to communicate complex data effectively to stakeholders at all levels.
You will:
Collaborate to conduct RFx, lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements
Collaborate cross functionally with Legal, InfoSec, Privacy, Finance, IT, Compliance, etc. to help ensure new and existing vendors adhere to relevant requirements in these areas
Review existing contracts and understand requirements; form guidelines and design standard vendor contract protocols
Assist to establish vendor life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new vendors, manage data for vendor performance and manage vendor off-boarding and transition
Support development financial analytics to support commercial term negotiations with performance dashboards and ROI-based evaluation tools
Identify and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality
Develop and present comprehensive business cases and impact assessments to support decision-making.
Analyze procurement processes, systems, and data to identify opportunities for improvement.