Manager, Sourcing & Supplier Management
About The Position
Overview • 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? Role • 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 All About You • 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) • Experience in a strategic sourcing role in a best-in-class organization preferred • Extensive internal and external communication skills required with operations, corporate personnel, and external suppliers • Advanced contract negotiation experience and training • Experience with Coupa sourcing systems is preferred • Bachelors degree , MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred
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
Nice To Haves
- Experience in a strategic sourcing role in a best-in-class organization preferred
- Experience with Coupa sourcing systems is preferred
- Bachelors degree , 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
