Position Description
The Procurement Manager is responsible for leading strategic sourcing, category management and tactical purchasing activities across multiple areas of spend, heavily focused on Indirect and Service categories. This is a hands-on role requiring a detail-oriented and highly driven individual looking to make a lasting impact with a growing organization.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct opportunity assessments, bench-marking, cost modeling and root cause analysis to develop cost and service improvement recommendations
- Mine and analyze data from multiple sources
- Work cross-functionally with stakeholders to identify business needs
- Prepare bid analysis and present sourcing recommendations
- Negotiate terms, draft agreements and manage contracts in coordination with key stakeholders
- Conduct program/project implementation activities, assess and mitigate potential risks, evaluate project successes and failures and drive process changes to improve future projects
- Manage all aspects of various spend categories from source to payment, including transactional activities as required
- Manage vendor relationships including tracking performance and identifying new opportunities
- Develop and manage spend and data reports to measure cost and service improvements
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s Degree in a related field
- 5+ years of experience in a similar Procurement role is required
- Experience with facilities services required
- High-level proficiency in Excel required
- Coupa experience and SAP (or large ERP system) experience preferred
