Strategic Sourcing Manager

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The principal purpose of the Strategic Sourcing Manager is to oversee all strategic sourcing as well as supplier management performance and relationship management activities for the specific categories of spending in their purview. This role is the go‑to resource in Procurement for their respective spend categories and should be seen as such by Finance as well as the business units.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager will be responsible for managing and delivering results that support the Procurement‑related goals and objectives for respective categories and business units. This role will act as the single point of contact for the entire organization with regard to strategic procurement activities for their categories. The Strategic Sourcing Manager will be accountable for creating, facilitating, or participating in the development of category management strategies, executing upon the category strategies and monitoring, and evaluating the success of the activities.

The Strategic Sourcing Manager is also responsible for managing supplier relationships, performance and improvement, risks, and issues.

To accomplish category strategies that involve sourcing, the Strategic Sourcing Manager must effectively facilitate the sourcing process with the business unit teams. The Strategic Sourcing Manager must possess excellent project management skills, people leadership skills and an understanding of the business and their category specific knowledge to provide value to their respective business units. The Strategic Sourcing Manager will take input from business unit stakeholders to formulate and execute category objectives, priorities, plans of action.

• Defines category and demand profile for respective categories with an emphasis on SaaS.
• Proactively manages categories by tracking spend by vendor; and developing preferred supplier analysis, with a goal of optimizing the number of suppliers while maximizing year over year savings.
• Develops category strategy and plans that encompass creative and well thought out insights and solutions.
• Refines and refreshes category management strategies and plans based on monitoring progress toward results.
• Manages supplier relationships, risks, performance.

• Serves as the interface between the functional team members to ensure effective definition of and delivery of category management activities.
• Builds strong working relationships with business unit stakeholders in order to ensure requirements and considerations are being incorporated into category management and sourcing plans.
• Works with the business units to prepare project plans for proposed Procurement activities and makes sure all stakeholders understand timelines and assignments.
• Manages…