Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Position Responsibilities

• 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.

• College level coursework in supply chain management or related field.
• 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