Senior Sourcing and Contracts Specialist

Must Haves: Experience working in supply chain, commercial Contract Negotiation, and Supplier Management environments. Experience in Business/IT Consulting or Outsourced Services procurement. Experience with Workday Strategic Sourcing & MS Office Suite.

Your Impact:

• Category Management, Contracts Negotiation and Management, Supplier Performance Management, representing the procurement organization as the principal customer contact on assigned category management projects and often performs in a leadership role
• Category plan and strategy, consultative and strategy support to internal business units for procuring consulting services, relationship building, supplier and market intel research, spend analysis, and cost saving
• Operate as a senior procurement practitioner across a variety of procurements, providing recommendations as to procurement and supplier strategy and structuring deals
• Negotiate and implement contracts, statement of work and/or amendments to agreements.
• Drafts, reviews and/or approves documents for protection of the Company's contractual posture and adherence to the Company policy.
• Contribute to the development of robust and thoughtful statements of work and service level metrics
• Develop Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Request for Solution (RFS) for competitive bidding and lead the bidding process/events.
• Develop supplier selection criteria and work with key stakeholders in rating competitive bids.
• Involved in providing escalation and administration of contractual matters that may arise on contracts
• Ensure contract compliance with terms of service for contracts along with the contract management process
• Work with Legal to develop Procurement strategies to reduce the chances of contractual risk
• Contribute to development and implementation of enterprise-wide Source to Pay processes and systems

Qualifications:

• 5+ years proven experience working in supply chain, commercial Contract Negotiation and Supplier Management environments
• Minimum of 3 years in Business/IT Consulting or Outsourced Services procurement
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• Financial Services Supply Chain/Procurement experiences
• Outstanding category management, sourcing, contract negotiation, analytical, decision making, and relationship management skills
• Strong ability to gain category insights from spend data analysis, industry benchmarks and market intel research reports (preferred)
• Experience in developing and running sourcing events from development to contract execution
• Experience in full contract life cycle for all category suppliers from contract initiation through termination including execution of Agreement
• Broad-based experience in supply chain, procurement, contracts, project management
• Experience in category review meetings with team and with business partners on a recurring basis to ensure alignment with the businesses strategic wave plan
• Experience with aligning across all suppliers and contracts to the strategy and initiatives

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Ability to complete the category strategy and work toward developing a sourcing pipeline and cohesive cost-saving agreements
• Experience with internal partner KPIs for category(s) and support supplier scorecard for external partner KPIs
• Ability to optimally interact in a cross-functional environment with all levels of management
• Highly effective written and oral communications
• High level of proficiency in Workday Strategic Sourcing & Microsoft Office suite -- Word, PowerPoint, Excel