Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Job Type:Full time Exempt/Non Exempt:

Salary

Job Description:

Location Details:

Hybrid Position Schedule /

Shift: Monday – Friday – 8am – 5pm

Position Summary:

Provides support for defined sourcing categories/commodities aligned with business lines and inter-club organizations. Provides support for strategic sourcing and supply chain requirements that ensure competitive solutions that provide the greatest competitive value for the enterprise. Acts as a liaison with all clubs and departments within the Auto Club Group (ACG) in order to facilitate the procurement and deployment of necessary goods and services at the optimal economic value for ACG.

Supports the development, implementation and on-going management of change between the strategic sourcing and supply chain (procurement) organization and internal client organizations. Assists management with strategic procurement planning to ensure ACG business goals are met.

Supports the development of strategic roadmaps aligned to business requirements, ensuring best practices and competitive advantage solutions are utilized. Assists management in the development and manages the process for supplier performance management, RFx development and execution and contract negotiation and implementation, ensuring department and corporate compliance standards are met. Supports partnership opportunities with the AAA federation of clubs including AAA National and external organizations in order to gain leveraging opportunities for ACG.

Supports the department ombudsman process in order to provide timely resolutions to problems and client complaints, ensuring department quality service objectives are met.

Qualifications:

Required

Education:

College level coursework in supply chain management or related field

Experience:

Project planning

Identifying, analyzing and resolving moderately complex problems

Resolving changes in scope, timing, costs, quality and client satisfaction

Supporting and contributing transformational level change within a procurement organization

Involved in supporting a highly rationalized and diverse supply base optimized to business needs

Supporting strategic sourcing initiatives across a series of spend categories

Supplier development and contract negotiation

Developing cost/benefit analyses

Writing bid proposals with analytical evaluation capability

Goal setting, decision making and conflict resolution

Willing to travel as required to meet business needs

Organizing, monitoring and reporting projects

Coordinating support activities provided by multiple off-site suppliers and internal clients

Customer care and satisfaction

Knowledge:

Trends and emerging technologies/services across assigned ACG procurement categories

Best-in-class procurement transformational trends and traditional processes

Acquisition principals and nomenclature

Business process and technology solutions supporting internal clients, suppliers and department

Negotiation techniques

Basic auditing theory

Statistical methods and analysis

Supplier diversity and strategic importance

Skills:

Support demand management objectives

Communicate effectively

Provide competitive solutions in support of business objectives

Multitask or perform a variety of concurrent activities

Explore alternative approaches/innovations to strategic sourcing and supply chain activities

Negotiate and implement supplier contracts

Ability to manage supplier performance to ensure optimal results

Work under tight schedules and deadlines

Strong oral and written communication skills to include report/proposal preparation and presentations to middle level management and external contacts

Preferred

Education:

Bachelor degree and/or professional certifications preferred (e.g., Accredited Purchasing Practitioner, CPM)

Experience:

In a variety of industry segments

Broad procurement background with strong focus in non-production (indirect) procurement in an individual contributor/leadership capac

Work Environment:

This is a hybrid work arrangement (time spent in office and remote). Depending on the employee's role and leadership's assessment, some employees will come in to an ACG facility on a weekly basis, a monthly basis, or on an "as needed" basis for key…