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What You’ll Do
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The Strategic Sourcing Manager builds strong relationships with internal and external partners to develop and execute enterprise-wide sourcing strategies that deliver value and create measurable, meaningful impact on Teradata’s success. Your mission will be to lead complex, high visibility engagements across all global business functions and indirect procurement spend categories to enable Procurement to deliver on savings and partnership commitments with scale and agility.
To be successful in this role you will think strategically, demonstrate exceptional contracting, negotiation, and communication skills, and have a high level of customer focus and business judgement. You will have a demonstrated track record managing large-scale supply chain and procurement improvement projects and superior data analysis and presentation skills. This role is high visibility and will interact with senior leaders in the company and with strategic suppliers across indirect spend categories, including Technology, HR, Contingent Labor, Marketing, and Consulting Services. The ideal candidate for this role has a history of delivering results, has executive presence, is proactive, and can influence stakeholders, earning the role as trusted advisor.
This position may work from our headquarters in San Diego or be Virtual in the US.
The Responsibilities of this Role are :
- Lead and own all aspects of strategic sourcing and category management, including stakeholder management, sourcing, contract negotiations, category strategy, spend analysis / market intelligence, and supplier management across indirect spend categories.
- Build a strong understanding of strategic business direction, requirements, and priorities across suppliers and spend categories. Earn trust as a business advisor.
- Contribute to the development and execution of global category strategies in collaboration with stakeholders to achieve functional and organizational objectives.
- Conduct deep dive analysis of spend and market data, and conduct benchmarking to understand key drivers, identify savings opportunities, and formulate strategies and plans that deliver value.
- Lead complex sourcing events from start to finish, driving alignment across large cross-functional selection teams. Formulate and recommend sourcing decisions to executive leadership.
- Craft negotiation strategies and lead the negotiation of complex global enterprise agreements in collaboration with Business stakeholders, Legal, Risk Management, Data Privacy, Information Security, and external suppliers / partners.
- Deliver sustainable and significant year over year cost savings.
- Initiate and lead projects to improve sourcing and procurement processes and our ability to serve our internal clients.
Who You Will Work With
You will join a dynamic team of high-energy strategic sourcing experts supporting all indirect procurement categories across Teradata globally. You will report to the Director of Strategic Sourcing & Category Management, within our global IT and Procurement organization. You will partner with senior business leaders across the company, including IT, Marketing, GTM, Product, HR, and Customer Support. You will exemplify and contribute to our culture centered around a customer and market driven mindset, agility in execution, and accountability to each other.
What Makes You a Qualified Candidate
What You’ll Bring
Why We Think You’ll Love Teradata
We prioritize a people-first culture because we know our people are at the very heart of our success. We embrace a flexible work model because we trust our people to make decisions about how, when, and where they work. We focus on well-being because we care about our people and their ability to thrive both personally and professionally. We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement. It is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an equitable environment that celebrates people for all of who they are.
Teradata invites all identities and backgrounds in the workplace. We work with deliberation and intent to ensure we are cultivating collaboration and inclusivity across our global organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, ancestry, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, military and veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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