Manager, Sourcing & Supplier Management

Our Purpose

Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential.

Manager, Sourcing & Supplier Management Overview

• Sourcing & Supplier Management creates and maximizes shareholder value by effectively managing the Master Card supply base across all business units, focusing on reducing cost & risk while improving value & supplier performance.
• This organization includes Sourcing Strategy, Sourcing Operations, and Supplier Management and is on a journey to be recognized as a premier supply chain organization.
• Leverage Master Card’s global demand to develop and implement category strategies that enable spend management, improve supplier performance, and mitigate risk.
• Partner with the Sourcing Strategy team and provide category expertise, market conditions, industry trends, product knowledge, benchmarking, and emerging supply options.
• Partner with Supplier Management to develop supplier strategies that will reduce risk, improve supplier performance while enabling supplier inclusion and innovation.
• Have you ever developed and implemented global strategies?
• Are you able to influence others and resolve complex problems?
• Are you comfortable challenging status quo and able to drive change?

• Collaborate with internal business partners to identify requirements and develop strategies for key categories and critical suppliers.
• Lead the 6-step Strategic Sourcing Process for assigned categories which includes analyze spend, define requirements, develop a strategy, author RFx's, negotiate contracts, award and implement contracts.
• Support Supplier Lifecycle Management activities including: supplier discovery, supplier risk management, supplier performance management, supplier contract management, supply chain sustainability & social responsibility, supplier development.
• Assist in the streamlining tasks and building technological efficiencies in an effort to improve processes while maintaining a high quality work product.
• Drive the financial and risk conversations with your internal business partners from a sourcing perspective to ensure compliance to sourcing policy and achieve financial efficiencies.

• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work with people at all levels in the organization.
• Proven ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals in a fast-paced, changing environment.
• Ability to organize, manage and work effectively to accomplish multiple tasks.
• Very strong analytical skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Experience in a strategic sourcing role in a best-in-class organization preferred.
• Extensive internal and external communication skills required with operations, corporate personnel, and external suppliers.
• Advanced contract negotiation experience and training.
• Experience with Coupa sourcing systems is preferred.
• Bachelors degree, MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred.

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