Procurement Sourcing Senior Manager - Real Estate & Facilities

Who We Are

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What You'll Do

As a Procurement Sourcing Senior Manager, you will bring world-class sophistication to our procurement activities on a consistent basis. 

• Through deep analysis actively find opportunities, develop strategy and category plans that deliver significant value, implement and drive those through, guiding and managing stakeholders along the way 
• Work with stakeholders to develop of category strategies aligned with project pipeline, business needs, and risk appetite.
• Run category reviews and identifying opportunities for consolidation, innovation, or cost reduction.
• Procure a full range of global Facilities and Capital Projects, including office fit-out, catering, cleaning, reception, security and real estate brokerage
• Integrate and build relationships with stakeholders. Identify key buyers, collaborate with those to increase savings as well as the value we receive from our vendor base 
• Be seen as a Trusted Advisor to the Global Real Estate team
• Ability to Influence senior stakeholders to deliver the best commercial and operational outcomes for BCG
• Build strong relationships with suppliers that deliver value across the whole life cycle of the procurement and supplier management process 
• Prepare, issue, and manage RFx process; evaluate proposals; make recommendations using internal and external data sources 
• Mitigating vendor related risk, and contribute in managing the category vendor base 
• Establish effective communication channels, performance metrics and sharing of BCG best-practice within network 
• Negotiate contracts/agreements within the parameters provided by internal Legal team 
• Track and monitor spend, vendors and market development 
• Increase spend under Procurement's management within category 
• Support and provide input to the Center of Excellence in the implementation of purchasing processes, structures and supporting tools, to enable capture of savings and long-term development 

This role will report to the Category Leader. This individual should expect to have a great deal of interaction with our North America Regional and Global Leadership and people on all levels and functions within BCG. A certain amount of travel will also be part of the job. 

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• A good understanding of building fit-out procurement & processes.
• Deep procurement expertise relationship building, sell-in capabilities and sensitivity to local requirements 
• High level of self-motivation/drive, persistency, resourcefulness and a willingness to facilitate change 
• Excellent analytical skills, and a high skill set in Excel and PowerPoint is considered a pre-requisite for the role 
• Ability to independently resolve complex issues/problems, but seeks advice and counsel for decisions including key stakeholders where appropriate 
• Strong influencing skills and ability to get stakeholder buy-in for initiatives and projects 
• Used to working in an international environment with both internal clients as well as suppliers in all parts of the world 
• Customer centric focus 
• You need to have a pragmatic approach and an ability to work independently in identifying, analyzing, and acting on opportunities 
• Able to translate large,…