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Lead Strategic Sourcing Specialist

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Establish and drive sourcing of indirect professional services including finance, audit, advisory, consulting services, and financial programs, for your categories globally as per Annual Operating Plan and Strategic Plan. You will have responsibility for driving competitive category supply strategies to achieve lowest total cost for your category, reduce working capital via negotiation planning and execution, improve productivity, drive consumption reduction and Sole / Single Source elimination. You will manage supplier performance to support your category and ensure supply quality. You will be managing several projects and strategic contracts in dynamic environment. You will ensure compliance with company business policies and procedures.

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Key Responsibilities

\n\nDrive and execute plan with supporting strategies for key professional indirect services needs including any finance, audit, advisory services, financial programs, consulting services and various other professional service needs to support internal stakeholders\nDrive Total Cost of Ownership optimization through a mix of levers such as competition, price, service design, consumption, ratios of Subcontractors to Contract Service Workers.\nManage supplier selection, RFI and RFQ process, eAuction, negotiation, contracting and supplier performance processes.\nManage Master Service Agreements (MSAs) and Statements of Work (SoWs) from inception through negotiation, completion and maintenance.\nManage Professional Services category strategies including spend analysis, benchmarking, cost analysis, market analysis and global technology / economic trends tracking.\nEnsure rigorous management of key suppliers through processes such as scorecarding, Business Reviews, Service Level analysis and corrective actions.\nAlign with key internal stakeholders to build sourcing strategy to support short-term and long-term professional services needs\nImprove Working Capital thru Payment Terms extensions, Payment cycle optimization, and other initiatives.\nAssist in operational procurement escalations, reconciliations and reporting as required.\n

YOU MUST HAVE

\n\n5+ years of relevant strategic sourcing/category management experience, to include at a minimum, 3 years in an indirect procurement function at a multinational corporation with global contracts.\nStrong category management experience\nIn-depth experience in best-in-class procurement practices (category management, benchmarking, should-cost models, RFX, reverse auction, contracting, etc.).\nStrong contract negotiation experience (Terms and Conditions such as Limitation of Liability, Warranty, Indemnification, IP, security, pay terms, etc.)\nExperience in RFPs/RFQs and Statements of Work\nDemonstrated impact in achieving category savings and working capital goals\n\n

WE VALUE

\n\nBachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree preferred\nMasters Degree\nDemonstrated negotiation experience with consulting firms and for other professional services included in scope\nExtensive knowledge of the basic types of commercial agreement structures and the function and purpose of key legal terms.\nKnowledge of financial programs including corporate cards and supply chain financing arrangements\nDemonstrate actionable results by delivering against targets for financial performance business impact\nStrong experience assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to principal business owners.\nExtremely customer-focused and takes the time to understand the needs of the business.\nExperience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization.\nStrong analytical skills including the ability to quickly synthesize, distill and draw conclusions on large amounts of disparate data.\nStrong leadership skills and ability to direct a cross-functional team\nAbility to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, time management, and problem-solving skills.\nExcellent written and oral communication skills.\nPassionate self-starter with the highest integrity and ethics.\nProfessional Certifications in Project/Supply Chain/ Procurement/Contract Management\nExperience with SAP or site relevant ERP systems, eSourcing Platforms, Request for Quotation Tools, Project Management Tools\nAdditional InformationJOB ID: HRD252849Category: ProcurementLocation: 855 S Mint St,Charlotte,North Carolina,28202,United StatesExemptGlobal (ALL)

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