Lead Strategic Sourcing

Company Overview

Founded in 1906, over the last 110+ years CEMEX has grown into a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Here at CEMEX we offer our employees competitive wages, career growth, excellent benefits including health, dental & vision plans, vacation or paid time off, employee assistance program and retirement plan options, along with over a century of stability to build your next career on!

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The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for the commercial and contractual strategy on the negotiation of goods and services for CEMEX’s manufacturing operation in the United States.

• Negotiate contracts and agreements. Develop strategies for goods and services based on an understanding of market knowledge, business requirements and balance leveraging with competition.
• Develop negotiating strategy with input from internal customers, act as key commercial expert during negotiations, and act as primary contact for target suppliers.
• Negotiate legal and commercial terms to achieve optimal business results. Identify key contract risks and associated mitigation strategies.
• Build strong working relationships with internal customers to understand their requirements, drivers and timelines.
• Challenge operational procedures. Through the financial analysis and Total Cost of Ownership modeling process, research and/or identify ways to improve the pricing, quality, service and technology. Using collaborative creativity, bring new ideas to the table and challenge current operational routines to identify opportunities to build positive impact changes within the organization.
• Increase the overall value to the company. Through the use of financial analysis and TCO modeling, negotiate hard savings and/or benefits to lower the overall manufacturing cost to the organization. Create Key Performance Indicators to ensure supplier performance on value‑added benefits.
• Take the lead in the implementation process. Follow the negotiations process from “cradle to grave” including implementation to ensure that completed negotiations are fully utilized within the company and that maximum savings and benefits are realized. Lead the adoption and use of procurement technologies including e‑sourcing tools.
• Develop the negotiations plan. Work closely with Operations and Planning to develop and refine the negotiations strategy and plans of the region for the upcoming year. Review macroeconomic indicators to determine the prevailing market conditions and evaluate potential savings and benefits that could be available.
• Manage relationships across all department lines. Professionally communicate and interact with all levels of management both inside and outside of Procurement. This includes the Operations, Supply Chain, Accounting, Legal, Risk Management, Planning and Controllership departments.
• Create strategic alliances with vendors. Develop and maintain long‑term supply partnerships with the vendor base to work together and find different avenues for reducing the total cost.
• Adhere to all CEMEX, OSHA, and MSHA rules and regulations at all times and wear proper safety equipment while on plant grounds.
• Meet or exceed company safety standards.
• Perform other job responsibilities as assigned by management.

• Bachelor’s degree required in Engineering, Business or Supply Chain Management;
  Master’s Degree in Business Administration preferred.
• 6 years industrial procurement experience related to supply chain strategy and national negotiations.

• Knowledge of supply chain processes and best practices including strategic sourcing, market analysis, contracting methodologies, risk analysis, principles of contract law and supplier performance management.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills to interact with suppliers and co‑workers in a team‑based environment.
• Analytical skills to aggregate,…