Strategic Sourcing Director

BGIS is currently seeking a Strategic Sourcing Director to join the team in Tampa FL.

BGIS is a leading provider of integrated real estate management services including facilities management project management energy & sustainability services strategic workplace consulting real estate services and capital planning. Its range of solutions supported by efficient systems processes and people enables it to create and optimize places that work for its clients. The team is dedicated to inspiring better business performance and helping clients focus on their core businesses.

The Strategic Sourcing Director leads activities in the development and delivery of strategic sourcing plans for key categories. The position responsibilities include category planning and delivery and strategy development leading opportunities assessments competitive bids supplier performance measurement and management supplier contract development and implementation. The role also identifies and implements leverage opportunities across all accounts and achieves great efficiencies and cost savings. The Strategic Sourcing Director leads others positively exemplifying BGIS values.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

People Leadership

• Provide direction to Sourcing team communicating objectives and expectations to meet business objectives.
• Lead talent searches selection hiring on-boarding training team member engagement development performance management and compensation recommendations.
• Manage team member recognition focus with development and implementation of action plans to improve team member survey satisfaction scores.
• Direct team prioritizing initiatives and setting weekly monthly and annual goals.

Strategic Sourcing Category Management Planning & Delivery

• Engage stakeholders to understand business requirements.
• Develop recommend and implement category plans.
• Maintain in-depth and current category knowledge and strategic sourcing best practices and industry trends.
• Provide category and strategic sourcing subject matter expertise.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies that maximize value and mitigate risks to clients and BGIS.
• Lead the review and measurement of the effectiveness of the strategy.
• Contribute to the completion of other key initiatives as assigned.

Opportunities Assessment Implementation and Competitive Bids

• Lead and perform opportunities assessment activities and drives leverage across all client accounts.
• Achieve improvements in operational efficiencies and cost savings as a result.
• Manage end-to-end competitive bid process for assigned categories.
• Negotiate with suppliers to secure optimum cost and maximum value.
• Review and approve vendor set up and vendor information changes.
• Develop and maintain standard templates for strategic sourcing documentations including but not limited to contract agreements scopes of work service level agreements and letters of agreements.

Supplier Management & Performance Review

• Lead the identification and implementation of performance metrics to measure supplier performance.
• Monitor supplier performance measurement and management.
• Report on supplier sustainability and supplier performance for assigned categories.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with suppliers.
• Manage the negotiation development implementation amendments and monitoring of supplier contractual agreements.

REQUIRED EDUCATION KNOWLEDGE and ABILITIES:

• Bachelors Degree in Supply Chain Management Business Facilities Management Construction Management Construction Management Engineering or other relevant field of study or equivalent work experience.
• Five years of experience in procurement or supply chain management or related field.
• Advanced ability to build and manage relationships with various stakeholders.
• Highly advanced influence persuasion and negotiation skills.
• High degree of client service orientation business ethics and accountability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Working knowledge of typical mechanical electrical plumbing and life safety systems associated to critical environments preferred.
• Ability to quickly learn proprietary databases.
• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word Excel Outlook and Visio.
• Working knowledge of SharePoint.

Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation

• Supply Chain Management Professional Designation preferred.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions absent undue hardship.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50%.
• Current valid drivers license and ability to provide personal transportation for meetings and job visits away from the office with reimbursement.

Our company culture includes a robust mix of sound business practices and employee initiatives that promote personal and professional development work/life balance health and wellness and community involvement.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer. We believe every employee has the right to work in surroundings that are free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race color religion gender national origin age disability ancestry creed marital status sexual orientation or Veteran or military status genetic information or any other basis prohibited by local state or federal law in the relevant jurisdiction. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to employment advancement assignment and training.

BGIS is committed to strengthening our diversity through recruiting and retaining minority and women professionals from all backgrounds. Our commitment is consistent with our recognition that it is the outstanding people within BGISwho have always been the source of our strength. We recognize that promoting diversity is an integral component of our continuing quest for organizational excellence.

This commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity is made equally as a social responsibility and as an economic and business necessity.

Anyone with questions or concerns regarding Equal Employment Opportunity should contact their direct supervisor or the Human Resources Department without fear of retaliation of any kind.

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