Job Description

• Act as the project manager liaising between finance, legal, vendor security, the business and any other stakeholders.
  
• Partner with stakeholders to lead supplier selection activities including conducting RFI’s, RFP’s.
  
• Perform benchmarking and drive other market intelligence activities.
  
• Lead total cost of ownership analysis and cost modeling.
  
• Partner with stakeholders to develop strategic sourcing plans / pipeline looking ahead 12 to 24 months.
  
• Lead negotiation plan development including mapping out detailed approaches, fallback positions, and acceptable terms and conditions.
  
• Lead contract and pricing negotiations.
  
• Measure, manage and improve supplier performance against negotiated SLA’s and quality metrics.
  
• Implement and lead regular supplier business review meetings.
  
• Build strong and productive working relationships with stakeholders and business partners.
  
• Expert in event contracting and negotiations, including hotel agreements, convention center agreements, Trade Show Sponsorship Agreements.
  
• Knowledge of event categories
  
• Ability to understand and grasp the market, technology, product portfolio, positioning and competitors in order to help support event strategy and tactics and to provide recommendations to the business owners.
  
• Can work closely with the marketing event teams partnering to drive policy and process improvements to manage budget, planning and sourcing opportunities.
  
• Demonstrated experience and achievement in sourcing solutions.
  
• Expert negotiation skills with a proven track record of savings.
  
• Experience managing global procurement responsibilities, using a strategic sourcing methodology, including: opportunity analysis and identification, supplier selection, risk and compliance evaluation, contract negotiation, and financial analysis.
  
• Proven ability to drive positive change and build strong stakeholder relationships.
  
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across multi-functional teams.
  
• Ability to both develop strategic sourcing plas and dive deep in contract details with a solid understanding of how contracts are structured.
  
• Experience with supplier report cards and supplier management.
  
• Self-starter who can build sourcing/procurement credibility within groups not accustomed to working with procurement.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• 7+ years’ experience in a Sourcing / Procurement role.
  

Company Profile:

Salary: Not disclosed

Industry: Accounting / Finance

Functional Area: Others

Role Category: Others

Employment Type: Full time

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