Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Sr Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Operations Leadership Jobs Sacramento, California

Description

Position at SBM Management

SBM is seeking a customer focused Sr Strategic Sourcing Manager you will oversee a team of Sourcing Managers responsible for over $20M in annual spend.

In this role, you will serve as a trusted leader to the business, driving critical elements of the supplier relationship lifecycle including planning, sourcing, and negotiations support for complex deals, and owning supplier relationship management.

You will monitor current spend, financial commitments, and partner with various teams to forecast upcoming spend to support business needs.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of Sourcing Managers to increase spend under management, deliver cost savings, and lead process efficiencies
• Prepare Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposal (RFP), Request for Quotation (RFQ), evaluation of responses.
• Lead evaluation, selection, development, and retention of the suppliers providing goods and services needed to conduct business.
• Use current spend information and knowledge to identify potential cost reduction plans
• Improve supplier performance against negotiated service level agreements and quality metrics.
• Lead transformational activities to build and mature the Strategic Sourcing organizational capabilities and improve procurement efficiency.
• Create Strategic Sourcing Strategy to support SBM growth and reduce the onboarding time for new vendors.
• Lead complex sourcing events, facilitate contracting, and manage supplier relationships across your supplier base.
• Research and identify savings and supplier optimization opportunities within
• SBM’s current and future service’s needs.
• Cultivate positive relationships across the business and all levels to find solutions and have courage to put forth new ideas and challenge biases.
• Analyze value proposition and total cost of ownership, understanding delineation of operating and capital expenditures, working with Finance partners.
• Monitor and support ownership budget and associated actuals, supervising spend by supplier, team, project, and business unit.
• Mentor junior team members with difficult deals and standard methodologies.
• Build and own detailed reporting for internal customers regarding supplier relationships using metrics on savings, supplier diversity, sustainability, preferred supplier usage and supplier rationalization.
• Make recommendations for a supplier vision and strategy for a specified business unit or internal customer team.
• Ensure that SBM always has qualified vendors that can meet or exceed our internal and external customer requirements at preferred pricing levels.
• Negotiate all third-party contracts for identified buying categories, including evaluating current market conditions, trends, and their effect on timing and costs for purchasing.
• Manage the qualification, compliance and maintenance of records related to third-party relationships.
• Position requires travel 20% of the time.

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, or a related field from a four-year college or university with 5-8 years of experience;

or equivalent combination of education and experience

Services Category background preferred.

Compensation : $, - $, per year

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