Manager, Indirect Procurement
The Manager will work with stakeholders and cross-functional teams across Brands and/or Regions to implement category-specific strategies, drive strategic sourcing activities, and build supplier relationship management programs within his/her area of responsibility.
Additionally, the Manager will work directly on the identification, tracking and management of savings/value across regions and globally. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated professional, self-starter and team player with demonstrated successful experience in Procurement, preferably in indirect categories of goods and services.
This person will be highly analytical with exceptional Excel savvy, such that he/she may dig deep into data and parse out critical elements to further the category strategy. Must have strong presentation and negotiating skills; ability to present to all levels of the organization.
Ideally - searching for someone with strong Indirect Procurement background, that considers themself a specialist in Staff Augmentation, Travel or General Corporate Professional Services.
salary: $45 - $50 per hourshift: First
work hours: 8 AM - 4 PM
education: Bachelors
Responsibilities- Develop global category strategies in close alignment with stakeholders, ensuring that strategies directly support the overall professional services category strategy, and that regional/local strategy extensions are developed collaboratively in order to maintain consistent objectives around the world. Categories of responsibility will be within Corporate & Professional Services spend landscape.
- Identify and drive elements of strategy, including evaluating/defining supply base, developing demand related approaches, and establishing related rate cards and catalogs.
- Ability to efficiently develop and execute contracts
- Establish pipeline of projects well in advance of the following fiscal year, ensuring that plans are logged into the value creation tool.
- Identify any challenges to efficient flow of services/materials, and recommend operational improvements and/or develop tools to drive efficiencies
- Lead and implement continued rollout and ongoing improvements for Ariba marketplace tool
- Pull reports and act as a subject matter expert / thought leader to break down data into meaningful data sets that support category strategy and spend management planning
- Evaluate supply base data and utilization trends to establish strategy for rationalizing supply base on assigned categories, and ensuring the appropriate roster is set
- Plan and lead sourcing projects on a global, regional, local and/or multi-site level, engaging stakeholders and the required cross-functional resources
- Staff Augmentation
- Financial Services
- Indirect Procurement
- Vendor Relations
- Vendor Management
- Excel
- SAP
- Ariba
- Purchasing/Procurement
- Years of experience: 5 years
- Experience level: Experienced
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This posting is open for thirty (30) days.