Associate Director, Commercial Strategic Sourcing, Consulting, Data & Technology

The Associate Director, Commercial Strategic Sourcing, Consulting, Data & Technology; will lead the Strategic Sourcing efforts within commercial technology, commercial consulting, data acquisition & analytics, field training, fleet operations, marketing operations and creative services. This role is instrumental in optimizing supplier performance, ensuring commercial efficiency through strong supplier partnership and sourcing strategies. The ideal candidate will be able to translate the goals of their business partners to Sourcing objectives to provide a value-added service to the organization.

At the direction of Corporate Services Strategic Sourcing leadership:

• Build relationships with Customer Engagement business partners to develop and enable sourcing strategies that align with the needs of the business while meeting financial, operational, risk, quality, regulatory, and assurance of supply/services control objectives.
• Serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor to Commercial stakeholders for Consulting, Data & Technology initiatives, providing proactive, consultative support on their sourcing needs.
• Manage and identify key supplier relationships by enabling operational delivery, continuous improvement, and innovation through performance and relationship measurement, overall governance, supplier relationship development and alignment to business and corporate goals and objectives.
• Be a champion for Sourcing by ensuring and monitoring compliance with sourcing policies and processes through stakeholder communication, training, and the identification and reporting of exceptions and deviations.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities within the process area.
• Drive 10-15% annual savings within in-scope spend areas.
• Lead and execute significant, high value and high impact sourcing activities with cross-functional teams by assessing the category market, collecting business requirements, soliciting RFx’s, leading contractual and rate card negotiations and ensuring the strategic contractual infrastructure is in place to support business priorities.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, industry regulations, and ethical standards. Assess and mitigate supplier risks, driving quality and adhering to regulatory guidelines.
• Create excellence through consistent, high-quality outcomes.

Execute against a common vision and strategy for Strategic Sourcing tners with Business leaders and other key stakeholders to gain their perspectives and endorsement of the vision and strategy. Produce measurements of success (KPIs) and appropriate processes to capture, consolidate and report on sourcing performance and outcome versus objectives to business partners. Build and maintain the category’s spend analytics and program metrics using advanced Excel, and translate them into clear, executive-ready PowerPoint.

Provide regular reporting and tracking of overall sourcing initiatives and their progress, including issues, risks, and other important observations to ELT, Business Leaders, and Stakeholders. Provide category expertise to business partners regarding changes in the category supplier landscape including new and existing suppliers.

Provides appropriate training across the organization on the importance of following Sourcing policies and processes. Ensures the appropriate controls are in place to meet regulatory requirements (i.e. J-sox, Third Party Risk Management, etc.). Ensures best practices in Sourcing including accurate spend analysis, usage of RFx tools and templates, contract management, establishment of Preferred Supplier Programs, and…