Strategic Sourcing Specialist

Waste Management, Inc. (WM)•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Strategic Sourcing Specialist is responsible for reducing the overall cost of externally purchased materials, goods and services while maintaining or improving quality and service delivery using the strategic sourcing process to identify and eliminate waste and inefficiencies upstream and downstream in the supply chain for one or more spend categories or subcategories. This role is also responsible in assisting category management for assigned categories or subcategories.

Requirements

Must live and work in the US.
Education: Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Business or a technical field, or in lieu of, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four (4) years of relevant experience.
Experience: Three (3) years experience in a supply chain related position with category spend responsibility of $10M or greater (in addition to education requirement).
Must be a customer-focused change agent with demonstrated collaboration, communication, influencing and organization management/development skills
Must demonstrate good understanding of Emotionally Intelligent approaches in persuading others to understand your and the department's position on matters.
Possess environmental and sustainability experience
Must be a team player who can work within a matrix organization to achieve results
Demonstrated ability to develop and build strong relationships and facilitate changes in systems and processes to support internal and external customers; has quickly evaluated a complex system and identified problems and potential solutions
Ability to use software and information technology to more effectively manage and grow the function
Experienced in articulating the business and product strategies emphasizing the strategic importance of the various products, systems and services
Demonstrated strong strategic thinking and ability to execute and implement
Demonstrated ability to partner and build relationships in diverse businesses
Demonstrated ability to successfully lead cross-functional teams to results
Possess strong financial acumen and operational expertise
In order to travel by air or access federal property, federal law requires individuals have a REAL ID or an acceptable alternative. This position may require the successful candidate to travel by air for business reasons, or service federal property. Accordingly, successful candidates must have, or be willing to obtain, a REAL ID, or TSA approved alternative.

Nice To Haves

Strong Preference for Intermediate Excel Skills and great communication skills

Responsibilities

Pulling reporting and analyzing risks and opportunities to save money
Communicate with all types of people, internal and external
Take direction and create projects with what you see
Assist internal customers with problems, escalations, etc.
Identify new opportunities to further our category in the space
Analyze and understand the company's historical spending patterns for assigned spend categories or subcategories
Analyze and understand the market for potential solutions to satisfy the requirements identified
Develop sourcing strategies and tactics based on the empirical results of the requirements and market analysis, for low to medium complexity sourcing events, that will result in the best overall value and TCO for the company
Present sourcing strategy and tactics recommendations to supply chain leadership, and key stakeholders
Execute the sourcing strategy and tactics to select the source. This may include: development of RFPs, use of eSourcing tools, bid evaluations, supplier evaluation, development of negotiation strategy, negotiation documents, supplier performance metrics, and contracts.
Present results of the source selection process to supply chain leadership and key stakeholders
Develop a detailed implementation plan that includes: the transition process and timing, communication plan identifying purpose, target audiences, key messages, frequency, duration, delivery medium(s), responsibilities, schedule, program utilization and user satisfaction metrics
Develop and document savings calculations and any other impact metrics
Determine reporting frequency and report savings
Ongoing management of suppliers in assigned spend categories
Ongoing collaboration with suppliers and internal users to continuously improve the supply chain (up and down stream)
Ongoing contract management, program utilization tracking and reporting, internal requirements monitoring and market dynamics monitoring