Manager - Strategic Procurement Center of Excellence (Oakland)

Briarlake Partners is a strategic sourcing focused recruiting firm. We are working with a Bay Area client located in Oakland. They are looking for a Manager, Strategic Procurement Center of Excellence. This team delivers deep market insights and analytics to enhance procurement decision-making. This individual will leverage market research and data analytics to drive procurement excellence, support category strategy, and mitigate supply risks.

This position is responsible for the collection and analysis of internal and external market data, monitoring industry trends, and providing actionable intelligence to inform sourcing strategies, risk management, and cost optimization initiatives.

The role will work closely with category managers and senior procurement leadership to ensure data-driven decision-making across the organization. Additionally, they will participate in business process improvement efforts and other strategic initiatives.

THIS ROLE REQUIRES UP TO THREE DAYS A WEEK IN OUR CLIENT'S OAKLAND OFFICE.

Job Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains effective partnerships with Procurement Leadership aimed at identifying and understanding the needs of the organization to develop continuous improvement efforts and strategic initiative
• Provides Sourcing organization with spend analysis, total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling, and should-cost analysis to support sourcing decisions. Provides coaching and feedback as necessary
• Assesses internal and external best practices and research to ensure state-of- art Procurement Market Intelligence methodology, processes and tools
• Enhances Procurement Market Intelligence process & Procurement data through various reporting tools
• Manages relationship and serves as liaison between procurement, finance and other functional areas to establish and facilitate a strategic, valued added relationship relative to procurement cost efficiencies and customer procurement plans
• Focuses on the near term deliverables as well as the longer term strategy

Background Qualifications

Minimum

Desired