Sr. Manager - Commercial Services at Cube Hub Inc. in San Mateo, California

Sr. Manager - Commercial Services

Location:

Foster City, CA, 94404

Shift: Hybrid - 3 days onsite per week

Duration: 12-month contract-possible to extend

Pay rate: $80/h to $90/h
- Dependent on experience - negotiable

Key Requirements:

Looking for candidate with heavy Marketing exposure and most importantly extensive experience in Category Strategy Management (building and developing)

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
• 5+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing/Procurement and Category Management
• Strong experience with contract negotiation and supplier relationship management
• Experience developing and executing category and sourcing strategies
• Strong spend analytics, supplier benchmarking, and RFP experience
• Experience leading cross-functional strategic sourcing projects
• Strong negotiation, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
• Experience with procurement systems, spend analysis, and supplier performance management

Job Description

• 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.