Location: Remote
Contract Opportunity
Exciting global SaaS Identity leader G&A (general and administrative) Strategic Sourcing team is looking to hire a Strategic Sourcing analyst who will help support the sourcing, negotiating, and purchasing for the business teams in the G&A category. The primary purpose of this position is to maximize the value and minimize the risk associated with contracts and procurement-related activities. This position will manage and guide internal business partners through the daily activities within the contract and purchasing processes in procuring events, sponsorships, campaigns, tangible goods, SaaS, applications, professional services at the minimum while ensuring adherence to compliance regulations in accordance with Sourcing and Procurement policies and procedures. This position will work with a wide variety of suppliers and business partners which provides great opportunities to learn and expand.
Responsibilities:- Own Strategic Sourcing projects from start to finish
- Manage a list of contract expirations to assure that business goals are met
- Collaborate with security team and business teams to reduce supplier risk on each sourcing project
- Maintain updated documentation in the Company’s contract repository
- Will be responsible for specific supplier relationships
- Promote department initiatives
- Collaborate with G&A business partners to identify requirements and lead supplier selection activities including conducting RFI’s, RFP’s, etc.
- Negotiate with suppliers; align on pricing and business terms with suppliers including but not limited to RFXs, SLAs, termination, renewals, to get the best deal and mitigate risk
- Collaborate with contract management/legal and business to ensure contracts are up to par
- Provide sourcing help in M&A integrations with contract consolidation efforts
- Build partnership and serve as liaison between Procurement and a variety of G&A business units related to procurement activities
- Conduct queries of the Company’s procurement database to provide business guidance
- Minimum of 3-5+ years of experience in Strategic Sourcing and/or Procurement
- Experience with G&A business partners in the sourcing and procurement space (not commodities)
- Familiarity with the procure-to-pay process
- Process mapping experience is highly preferred
- Previous experience partnering or interacting with AP teams is highly preferred
- Experience with ERP and financial systems. Familiarity with Coupa, Workday/ScoutRFP is a plus
- Proficiency with reporting and analytics
- Great communicator with good interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills
- Bachelor’s/master’s degree, preferably in business
- Proficiency in MS office suite with advanced Excel skills (pivot tables & V-Lookups)