**Description** Find your future at United! We’re reinventing what our industry looks like, and what an airline can be – from the planes we fly to the people who fly them. When you join us, you’re joining a global team of 100,000+ connected by a shared passion with a wide spectrum of experience and skills to lead the way forward. Achieving our ambitions starts with supporting yours. Evolve your career and find your next opportunity. Get the care you need with industry-leading health plans and best-in-class programs to support your emotional, physical, and financial wellness. Expand your horizons with travel across the world’s biggest route network. Connect outside your team through employee-led Business Resource Groups. Create what’s next with us. Let’s define tomorrow together. We believe that inclusion helps us thrive and grow at United across our collaborative Finance teams consisting of Financial Planning & Analysis, Internal Audit, Treasury, Global Procurement, Controllership, Investor Relations and more. These teams provide the financial fuel that keeps our operation running from providing detailed analyses of financial planning, performance, and forecasts to managing our investments and financial strategies. Our Finance team plays an integral role in making our airline profitable and successful by meeting our financial goals. **Key Responsibilities:** The objective of this manager role is to lead and support the entire Global Procurement organization with a variety of strategic sourcing and special analytics projects. The position objective is to enable the global procurement team through an established, sourcing methodology crafted to deliver Total Cost of Ownership savings across the enterprise. This role will be responsible for establishing leading procurement policy, compliance, procedures, and training support for Global Procurement. The manager will be working with existing procurement teams and affected division partners through the Total Cost of Ownership process and will be accountable to driving incremental savings across and reduced contract cycle time. In addition, this role is crafted to build the internal capabilities of the Procurement division and will be instrumental in transforming current business model for sourcing which is an important element of the enterprise cost reduction efforts. + Lead cross functional teams responsible for handling and implementing TCO methodology across direct and indirect enterprise category spends + Implement strategic sourcing efforts such as RFI/RFP/RFQ's or other selected strategies; lead the development of all related materials (bid documents, pricing matrix, project plan, partner interviews, etc.) + Benchmark current internal processes & external markets to find opportunities and develop strategies to gain identified gaps + Act as a consultant and lead process-improvement initiatives for the Global Procurement department; Process map current-state processes (such as RFx, catalog & contract management, etc.), and develop standardized future-state processes + Optimally manage relationships with all internal and external partners + Establish and document best-in-class procurement policies and procedures; develop curriculum for training procurement employees on best-in-class procedures **Qualifications** What’s needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications): + Bachelor's degree in Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, or another business-related field + 4+ years of consulting, sourcing, legal, audit, or finance experience + Highly analytical with excellent problem-solving skills + Strong communication, negotiation and relationship building skills. + Strong cross functional leadership skills. + Experience with both internal stakeholder and supplier relationship management, + Ability to work independently. + Efficient conflict resolution skills. + Excellent market information analysis skills and supply market knowledge + Works well in high-paced cross-functional environment + Good business insight and demonstrated capability of leading sophisticated projects + Skilled in strategic minded project management + Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship + Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification + Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position **What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):** + MBA or Master’s in Data Analytics + Management consulting experience United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation. The base pay range for this role is $99,750.00 to $135,960.00. The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards. You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges. United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.