Temporary Strategic Souring Specialist

A great UHY client is seeking a Temporary Strategic Sourcing Specialist to join their team. The ideal candidate will have prior experience in a similar role.

The Temporary Strategic Sourcing Specialist role is a hybrid position, with a few days each month being in office. This is a temporary, contract position.

Temporary Strategic Sourcing Specialist Education:

• College level coursework in supply chain management or related field.
• Preferred: Bachelor degree and/or professional certifications preferred (e.g., Accredited Purchasing Practitioner, CPM).

Temporary Strategic Sourcing Specialist Experience

• Project planning
• Identifying, analyzing and resolving moderately complex problems
• Resolving changes in scope, timing, costs, quality and client satisfaction
• Supporting and contributing transformational level change within a procurement organization
• Involved in supporting a highly rationalized and diverse supply base optimized to business needs
• Supporting strategic sourcing initiatives across a series of spend categories
• Supplier development and contract negotiation
• Developing cost/benefit analyses
• Writing bid proposals with analytical evaluation capability
• Goal setting, decision making and conflict resolution
• Willing to travel as required to meet business needs
• Organizing, monitoring and reporting projects
• Coordinating support activities provided by multiple off-site suppliers and internal clients
• Customer care and satisfaction
• Preferred: In a variety of industry segments
• Preferred: broad procurement background with strong focus in non-production (indirect) procurement in an individual contributor/leadership capacity

Temporary Strategic Sourcing Specialist Knowledge

• Trends and emerging technologies/services across assigned company procurement categories
• Best-in-class procurement transformational trends and traditional processes
• Acquisition principals and nomenclature
• Business process and technology solutions supporting internal clients, suppliers and department
• Negotiation techniques
• Basic auditing theory
• Statistical methods and analysis
• Supplier diversity and strategic importance

Temporary Strategic Sourcing Specialist Skills:

• Support demand management objectives
• Communicate effectively
• Provide competitive solutions in support of business objectives
• Multitask or perform a variety of concurrent activities
• Explore alternative approaches/innovations to strategic sourcing and supply chain activities
• Negotiate and implement supplier contracts
• Ability to manage supplier performance to ensure optimal results
• Work under tight schedules and deadlines
• Strong oral and written communication skills to include report/proposal preparation and presentations to middle level management and external contacts

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UHY Advisors'​ Resource Solutions Group provides clients with accomplished professionals to support finance, accounting, internal audit and tax teams. Whether it is permanent placement, project work, loaned staff support or business process outsourcing–we are ready to meet your needs.

Our team has extensive experience with a wide range of clients from middle market, closely held organizations to large Fortune 500 companies. We focus on finance and accounting, internal audit, IT audit and tax. We offer direct, personal involvement from senior practitioners and strive to meet clients'​ needs rapidly.