General Overview: Responsible for creating estimates, forecasts, and negotiating cost effective contracts with key suppliers. Appraise and improve sourcing activities by analyzing the company’s spending supplying partnerships and new possibilities. Analyze data and insights to determine industry and company trends.
Responsibilities
- Demonstrate strategies for category sourcing with sound knowledge of negotiation strategies and extensive experience in a similar role. Lower cost and raise profit margins to create a competitive advantage for the company
- Understanding the total Supply chain TCO including cost to serve, warehouse, and managing inventory carry cost while reducing balance sheet risk
- Manage the company’s supply portfolio ensuring transparency of spending
- Understand market drivers, pertinent indexes and their application to develop sustainable contracts and supply agreements
- Optimize sourcing procedures to attain maximum efficiency
- Cooperate with stakeholders to align terms and processes with demand
- Research and anticipate shifts in the negotiating power of suppliers
- Align supply base with company goals
- Perform cost analysis, benchmarking, develop saving goals for assigned categories
- Estimate risks and apply risk minimizing techniques
- Drive critical internal KPIs, leveraging Business Intelligence reports to make key decisions Establishing KPI’s to measure suppliers’ performance such as Lead-time, first time fill rate percentages and price variance to price book
- Conduct quarterly business reviews (QBR’s) to ensure supplier compliance to contractual and supply agreement requirements
- Analyze and calculate procurement costs and develop cost reduction strategies
- Conduct market research to understand market drivers, as well as creating cost estimates and forecasts
- Maintain strategic sourcing relationships and developing strong partnerships
- Direct Supply chain activities to reduce Balance sheet Risk
- Perform other related duties as required
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, or business administration preferred or 5+ years of demonstrated success in supply chain
- Proven work experience as a Sourcing Manager or Procurement Manager
- Familiarity with sourcing, negotiating, and vendor management
- Understanding of market dynamics and sound business judgment
- Strong project management and leadership skills
- Ability to negotiate and sustain networking relationships
- Experience analyzing large data sets, interpreting the data and drawing conclusions
- Advanced ability to collaborate and negotiate
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Exceptional analytical and strategic thinking abilities
- Willingness to travel to develop, promote, and maintain strategic sourcing relationships
- Sensitive to confidential information
- Must work independently and as a member of team
Mental And Physical Requirements
- Able to read, speak and write English.
- Interpret and make decisions in conformance with established policies and practices.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office tools including Excel, world, PowerPoint and Outlook and have prior experience.
- Able to work under stressful conditions at times.
- Communication - phone communication, communication with personnel and vendors.
- Climbing - able to go up and down stairs.
- Position will require a minimum of 40 hours per week dependent on workload.
- Strong work ethics of integrity and honesty striving for excellence in all activities employing accompanying communication.
- Dependability, reliability, fulfilling responsibilities.