Job Description

Job Title: Sr. Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Manager

Location: Alameda, CA

Direct Hire

Summary:

The Senior Manager will be a Category Manager within the Strategic Sourcing and Procurement (SS&P) department. This individual will support the Category Lead and be a point of contact from the team for the categories they are assigned and will be responsible for operations of their category and vendor pool.

Responsible for managing strategic approach to?procurement and ensure informed sourcing decisions to overall optimize?spend, maximize relationships, minimize risk & enable business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Support and provide thought leadership to category strategy development, optimization and management working with SS&P leadership and the business units.
• Understand business priorities and challenges by building trusted and collaborative stakeholder relationships, thus ensuring successful sourcing strategies. Identify?and recommend sourcing opportunities across the business.
• Support or may lead vendor evaluation activities (RFIs and RFPs) and selection process including facilitation of vendor capability presentations, software demonstrations, bid defense meetings and vendor award notifications. Contribute to process development and optimization.
• Support or may lead vendor contracting process in collaboration with key internal and external stakeholders, including negotiation of scope of work, budgets, and payment schedules and out of scope management; PO initiation, revision (increases, decreases), and close-out; contract and budget lifecycle.
• Negotiate contracts involving larger dollar amounts.
• Collaborate with Strategic Supplier Relationship team(s) or business as appropriate to effectively manage the cost, schedule and performance aspects of major contracts and subcontracts.
• Support or may act as SS&P lead on meetings with stakeholders and suppliers, especially in Supplier Relationship Management activities such as regularly scheduled Business Reviews.

• Build, maintain, and grow business relationships with current and prospective vendors.
• Manage end-to-end SOW and associated contract development and execution workflow for low-risk contracts leveraging the Legal Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system.
• Collaborate with Legal department to enforce vendor contract terms and conditions.
• Collaborate with SS&Ps Procurement Operations, FP&A, and other functional areas as needed to perform internal monthly vendor financial accruals, internal quarterly vendor financial forecasts, and internal quarterly vendor financial reporting.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• May directly supervise 1-2 Manager/Associate level reports.
• Direct supervision responsibilities include hiring, scheduling, and assigning work, reviewing performance, and recommending salary increases, promotions, transfers, demotions, or terminations.

• Direct supervisory and management responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Department/Functional: Delegate work assignments; monitor workload capacity; monitor work deliverables; and monitor training needs.

Education:

• BA/BS degree in related discipline and 9+ years related experience

Experience:

• Experience in R&D outsourcing, purchasing, supplier relationship management and/or procurement role(s) - preferred
• Supervisory/management experience preferred.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Strong, working knowledge of R&D outsourcing concepts, methodologies, standards, processes, operations, best
  To apply please email your resume to kinguyen@ledgent.com