What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Sourcing Expert position at Cynet Systems?
Job Description:
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with key business stakeholders.
- Execute sourcing strategies for the Information Technology categories of spend.
- Conduct supply market analysis, cost modelling and bench-marking.
- Lead supplier selection and negotiation process, execute sourcing activities.
- Conduct spend analysis of assigned category and propose/execute on opportunities.
- Provide efficient and consistent communication to stakeholders on the progress of sourcing engagements.
- Manage supplier relationships, supplier reviews as assigned.
- Adhere to Global Sourcing indirect policies, processes and procedures, utilizing the sourcing toolkit to achieve consistent engagement.
- Collaborating with business partners to execute sourcing engagements, balancing the service, service level, cost and compliance.
- Conduct supply market analysis, cost modelling and bench-marking.
- Lead the contract review/renewal process, working closely with stakeholders to ensure alignment on plans.
- Negotiate favorable contract terms, conditions and price for Client.
- Manage supplier relationships, supplier reviews as assigned.
- Adhere to Global Sourcing indirect policies, processes and procedures, utilizing the sourcing toolkit to achieve consistent engagement.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with key business stakeholders.
- Determines and develops approaches to assignments.
- Leads sourcing projects requiring coordination with other functions, third parties.
- Solves a broad range of sourcing-related problems of varying scope and complexity.
- Bachelors or Master Degree or University Degree or equivalent, MBA and or CPM preferred.
- Typically 3 years relevant experience for entry to this level.
- Possesses in-depth skills acquired through advanced training, study and experience and internal recognition in specialty.
- Successful, multi-year track record in a procurement organization, as Strategic Sourcing Manager with typically 3 years of relevant experience.
- In depth IT Category experience required; execution of IT sourcing engagements.
- Analytical skills, spend analysis and ability to navigate excel, and other business intelligent analytical tools required.
- Proven ability to negotiate pricing, business and contract terms.
- Ability to effectively build and manage relationships and influence others at all levels of the organization.
- Excellent executive/stakeholder engagement skills not intimidated in presenting /communicating with VP's and C level audiences.
- Negotiation and communication skills are critical to this position.
- Desired planning/project management skills, ability to set and keep timelines.
