Manager, Sourcing & Supplier Management

Mastercard • O’Fallon, MO

7d

About The Position

Sourcing & Supplier Management creates and maximizes shareholder value by effectively managing the MasterCard supply base across all business units, focusing on reducing cost & risk while improving value & supplier performance. • This organization includes Sourcing Strategy, Sourcing Operations, and Supplier Management and is on a journey to be recognized as a premier supply chain organization. • Leverage MasterCard’s global demand to develop and implement category strategies that enable spend management, improve supplier performance, and mitigate risk. • Partner with the Sourcing Strategy team and provide category expertise, market conditions, industry trends, product knowledge, benchmarking, and emerging supply options. • Partner with Supplier Management to develop supplier strategies that will reduce risk, improve supplier performance while enabling supplier inclusion and innovation • Have you ever developed and implemented global strategies? • Are you able to influence others and resolve complex problems? • Are you comfortable challenging status quo and able to drive change?

Requirements

• Strong relationship-building skills and the ability to work with people at all levels in the organization
• Proven ability to rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals in a fast-paced, changing environment
• Ability to organize, manage and work effectively to accomplish multiple tasks
• Very strong analytical skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Extensive internal and external communication skills required with operations, corporate personnel, and external suppliers
• Advanced contract negotiation experience and training
• Bachelors degree

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a strategic sourcing role in a best-in-class organization preferred
• Experience with Coupa sourcing systems is preferred
• MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal business partners to identify requirements and develop strategies for key categories and critical suppliers
• Lead the 6-step Strategic Sourcing Process for assigned categories which includes analyze spend, define requirements, develop a strategy, author RFx's, negotiate contracts, award and implement contracts
• Support Supplier Lifecycle Management activities including; supplier discovery, supplier risk management, supplier performance management, supplier contract management, supply chain sustainability & social responsibility, supplier development.
• Assist in the streamlining tasks and building technological efficiencies in an effort to improve processes while maintaining a high quality work product
• Drive the financial and risk conversations with your internal business partners from a sourcing perspective to ensure compliance to sourcing policy and achieve financial efficiencies

Benefits

• insurance (including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, disability, life insurance)
• flexible spending account and health savings account
• paid leaves (including 16 weeks of new parent leave and up to 20 days of bereavement leave)
• 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time, 25 days of vacation time and 5 personal days, pro-rated based on date of hire
• 10 annual paid U.S. observed holidays
• 401k with a best-in-class company match
• deferred compensation for eligible roles
• fitness reimbursement or on-site fitness facilities
• eligibility for tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees