Strategic Sourcing Manager

Duties:

• Support Marketing, Creative, and/or Production Teams with their Influencer and Sponsorship Engagement Request through our source-to-pay processes, procedures and policies
• Review incoming and ongoing vendor engagement and contract requests. Support requestors through the source-to-pay process.
• Review and approve PR's/PO's by confirming requests have gone through the source-to-pay process.
• Assist with reviewing and closing out aged vendor engagement requests.
• Support Assigned Sourcing Projects with a traditional 7-step sourcing process, alignment with sourcing policies, and use of appropriate sourcing tools.
• When applicable work to identify opportunities to reduce friction and improve operational efficiencies of Sourcing processes.
• Ensure alignment with category strategy and corporate policies through continuous dialogue with category, procurement, and business stakeholder leads.
• Inform category lead with insights into sourcing and contract trends.

Skills:

• Experience supporting Marketing, Creative, and/or Production teams.
• Experience working with marketing, creative, and/or production agencies, vendors,and technology along with familiarity of relevant contract types.
• Experience specifically with working with Influencer and Sponsorship Agreements and Onboarding.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited top tier university.
• Experience with Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay Practices.
• Ability to align cross-functional sourcing needs amongst Sourcing, Legal, Marketing/Creative/Production, and other risk-based teams.
• Superior relationship building, relationship management, interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Communicates effectively, listens carefully, and seeks and values different perspectives of others.
• Experience using Procurement and Sourcing Tools such as SCOUT, COUPA, Oracle, etc.

Education:

• Minimum 5 years of procurement, strategic sourcing project management, and/or contract management or business affairs experience, preferably in a high-growth technology environment.

Attachments: Location Client Location Country: United States State/Province: Californi City: San Francisco Address: 1455 Market St., Suite 600, 10001 Postal Code: 94103 Work Location Same as Client Location Other Client Location Work Completed Offsite Schedule Start Date: 05/31/2022 Hours Per Week: 40.00 Est. End Date: 12/31/2022 Hours Per Day: 8.00 Schedule Notes: Days Per Week: 5.00
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SOURCING LEADER Accomplished Procurement professional with extensive experience in sourcing services and international trade. Proven success translating business issues into numerical outcomes and interfacing with external service providers including an array of service providers, big box vendors, and other local vendors. Reliable, dedicated employee, who consistently exceeds set goals and deadlines. Known for adapting quickly to challenges and changing environments with keen ability multi-tasking. Effective leader with exemplary organizational and training skills. Continually recognized for achievements in account growth, as well as client cultivation and retention. Procurement | Budgeting | Contract Specialist | Systems Integration | Audit and Reporting | Strategic Sourcing |Investor Relations| Sales | Asset Management| Leadership | Training | Team Building Citrix | Empower | Google Docs | Microsoft Word | Excel | Access | PowerPoint | HubSpot | Dynamics | Epic EXPERIENCE CBRE, Boulder Colorado November 2020 - Current Contract Support/ Procurement Manager Lead strategic sourcing and supplier management with an emphasis on client satisfaction, cost efficiency, supplier partnership and contract efficiency. - Analyze data to ensure scope optimization and drive cost savings, while maintaining crucial maintenance and regulatory needs. - Ensure vendors adhere to company and client terms and conditions with proper liability protections. - Coordinate RFI's, RFP's and RFQ's with suppliers to satisfy project, maintenance and extra works needs. - Contract audits to ensure full compliance within company and client policies and guidelines. - Negotiate contract terms and pricing for large scale projects, as well as yearly maintenance needs for client facilities. - Follow up on Ad Hoc supplier issues such as PO justification, PO approval process, payments, and a plethora of other issues. - Work cross-functionally to resolve supplier queries. Avalon Trade & Investment Group, London, UK January 2009 - August 2020 Operations & Contract Specialist Reviewed and analyzed contracts to ensure accuracy and full compliance within company and client policies. Satisfied contract terms and conditions between trade parties. Reviewed and negotiated terms, pricing, and implemented changes as needed. - Reviewed and verified all credit worthiness for alternative financing practices. - Assessed risk analysis for Trade Finance of $50M or greater transactions. - Conformed to domestic as well as international guidelines for regulatory and AML. - Satisfied Procurement requirements for international commodities market. - Slashed costs, increased revenue via contract negotiations. - Managed operations for executing bulk vessel trade. - Assisted the sales team in building client portfolio. - Generated sales and upsold existing clients within the organization. - Developed and managed business goals and objectives. - Opened domestic trade markets. - Negotiated terms and conditions on international trade lines. - Identified and opened new domestic markets. - Served as account manager on multiple markets and product lines. - Evaluated client financial statements. - Processed all compliance and legal customs requirements on an international scale and all disclosures on multiple commodities. - Produced monthly reports on forecasting/ budgeting. GlobeOp Financial Services, New York, NY January 2008 - January 2009 Investor Relations Associate Managed domestic and international client relationships interacted with hedge fund principals and investors. - Collected and reviewed due diligence documents for the new fund investors. - Processed and reported investor transactions including subscriptions, redemptions and transfers and the associated money movement. - Communicated with internal groups such as accounting, operations, legal and account control with respect to transaction processing, billing, etc. - Coordinated with share registry group to build share registries, client fund parameters and proper statement production. - Performed Anti-Money Laundering checks pursuant to US and Cayman regulations. ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE Senior Credit Manager, Underwriter, Wells Fargo Financial, Queens, NY EDUCATION Bachelor of Science, Finance Bachelor of Arts, Economics Oswego, State University of New York, AACSB Accredited, Oswego, NY