Senior Manager

Senior Manager

Work Location:

Foster City, CA (Onsite/Hybrid)

Schedule:

3 days/week onsite

Duration: 12 Months

• Develop category strategies to deliver value by achieving cost savings and improving quality and service levels by identifying opportunity areas such as standardization and supplier consolidation.
• Oversee all spend activity and purchase requests for assigned category areas and determine proper action plan for all purchases that meet the procurement involvement threshold.
• Provide category subject matter expertise to the associated business group and Procurement functions.
• Support Commercial category strategies with spend analytics, supplier benchmarking, and RFP execution support.
• Coordinate Commercial supplier communications, data gathering, and performance tracking.
• Effectively work with Procurement Business Partner and business groups as a trusted advisor to determine desired product/service specifications and projected demand when making recommended action plans.
• Consult with cross functional teams to execute strategic sourcing projects for assigned category.
• Collaborate with Procurement functions and business groups to ensure that all spend above established thresholds are managed strategically.
• Collaborate with Procurement colleagues including Supplier Inclusion and Procurement Operations to create standard and repeatable process to integrate business diversity and responsible procurement into overall value proposition.
• Drive use of sourcing and procurement best practices and standardization of processes while minimizing supply risk.
• Ensure the company has good supply market understanding and works with the business teams to provide input for creating innovative win win customer and supplier strategies.
• Proactively identify improvement opportunities for assigned category and recommend key actions to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Combine all spend information into yearly plans and long-term forecasts for costs, savings targets, and planned projects.
• Execute initiatives to classify suppliers and manage supplier relationships according to defined supplier relationship management standards.

• Bachelor s Degree.
• MBA preferred.

• 5+ years Strategic Sourcing/Procurement experience, Category Management, Contract Negotiation, Performance Measurement, Project Management, Business Analysis, Change Management experience.

• Strong knowledge of strategic sourcing methodology with pragmatism to manage exceptions.
• Ability to develop category and sourcing strategies by identifying opportunity areas.
• Track record of effectively directing and leveraging procurement spend in assigned category areas by leading global cross functional teams.
• Experience managing and maintaining strong supplier relationships.
• Strong leadership presence and negotiation/contract management experience.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with procurement/spend systems data and analysis.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership capabilities to develop sourcing team.
• Ability to apply change management and consulting skills/knowledge and expertise.