Sourcing Specialist, Strategic Procurement

Job Description

We are hiring a Sourcing Specialist to join our Strategic Sourcing Team in New York.

You will be responsible for the sourcing and procurement of indirect categories for our employees and offices around the world. As an individual contributor you will develop and work with key stakeholders to establish relationships to increase strategic sourcing activity within the company. Working closely with our business and compliance teams you will be responsible for end to end sourcing activity as well as influencing & developing category strategies. Duties will include leading RFx events, evaluations, negotiations, spend/market analytics, contracts and supplier performance/analysis.
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What you'll do
• Support the management of multiple spend categories
• Conduct spend analysis & cost modeling
• Find opportunities for cost savings & demand management
• Run reports, build dashboards, scorecards and benchmarks that drive awareness of cost optimization opportunities to enable key decision-making
• Market analysis and identification of supplier pool
• Consolidating business/stakeholder requirements
• Lead RFx events and contract negotiations
• Collaborating with partners on program/service implementation
• Supervise overall supplier performance with SLAs, scorecards, business reviews etc.
• See opportunities for category process improvements and influencing key stakeholders
• Act as first point of contact for day to day questions, issue resolution etc. for various categories

Who you are
• You have previous sourcing experience of 3+ years preferably with proven project management experience
• Previous sourcing category knowledge & experience in Professional Services (HR, legal, consulting, outsourcing), Marketing (media and advertising agencies) and Facilities/Real Estate is helpful.
• You are able to lead RFx processes independently and projects with little supervision
• Able to identify patterns in data that reveal risks and opportunities.
• You have experiences in crafting and building data reports and visualizations (i.e Tableau)
• Accustomed to using sourcing tools (i.e. Workday Strategic Sourcing)
• You are analytical, detail oriented and prioritized
• You are driven and have the ability to identify the need for proactivity
• You have experience in inspiring changes in led projects and are comfortable in pushing back on collaborators, where vital to apply the standard methodologies
• You are comfortable working with senior stakeholders & business partners
• You are able to lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team
• You are service minded and motivated by helping people as well as a great teammate
• You have brought structure into ambiguous situations before which is needed for this role & environment

Where you'll be
• You will work out of the New York Office (Min. 2 days in office)
• Working hours? We operate within the Eastern time zone for collaboration.

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This role is not eligible for hire in Colorado, USA.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-renye2-3-145-166-7-42 in your application.