Supplier Manager

Advisor Group•Scottsdale, AZ

1d•$100,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Supplier Manager position will perform and support supplier engagements for internal customers throughout the supplier lifecycle. Utilize and guide stakeholders through established processes and systems that meet best in class standards established by Procurement leadership. The engagements include but are not limited to sourcing suppliers, running competitive bids with RFPs, preparing contract negotiation strategies with all relevant business requirements including cost and TCO modeling, contract lifecycle management, supplier relationship management, through off boarding or supplier terminations. Support assigned business units with category of spend strategies that tie into new supplier intake reviews, decreasing supplier base, decrease cost run rates, and aligning business requirements with the supply base.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree from accredited university in a Business or Finance Related Field
3-5 years of experience with supplier management, commodity management, or managing categories of spend.
3-5 years of experience in the financial services industry
3-5 years of experience with sourcing and contract life cycle management systems

Nice To Haves

5-8 years of relevant work experience as a supplier manager
5-8 years with relevant Financial Services Industry experience
5-8 years of experience working with sourcing and contract life cycle management systems
Additional Certifications in Supplier Management, Supply Chain Management, or Commodity Management. examples include ASCM (APICS), CPSM, CSMP, etc...

Responsibilities

Demonstrated experience in supplier management, commodity management, category of spend management with increasing levels of responsibilities across all indirect categories of spend
Understanding of contracting, contracting elements, fundamentals, and contract negotiations.
Demonstrated experience and abilities to lower overall cost run rates through contracting.
Experience with establishing and maintaining categories of spend strategies
Intermediate experience with analytical and analysis processes, developing TCO models, pivot tables, and other excel experience for baseline comparisons of data and analysis
Experience running RFx’s, supplier selection, and managing stakeholders through the entire process.
Experience with project management, demonstrated project management skills within the Source to Pay lifecycle.
Experience working with senior leaders and the ability to manage them as stakeholders as well as influence decision making.
Experience with presenting to senior and executive management on analysis of data for decision making.
Demonstrated experience supporting business units with supplier management issues, supplier performance, and supplier relationship issues.
Experience with supplier reduction strategies through acquisitions and mergers.
Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving work environment.
Utilize logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
Communicate to others to convey information effectively as well as communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
Incorporate your knowledge of shared services industry trends, directions, major issues, regulatory considerations and trendsetters.
Incorporate your knowledge of and ability to utilize processes, tools, and techniques for detecting, addressing and preventing fraudulent situations.
Utilize your creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
Consider the relative risks and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
Be a financial steward on how money will be spent to get the work done, account for expenses compared to budget and potential budget impacts.
Understands motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
Utilize your ability to develop constructive and cooperative working relationships with others and maintaining them over time.
Incorporate a customer service-oriented function, actively looking for ways to help people.
Knowledge of functions, features and applications of Microsoft Office; ability to use the cross-functional features of its applications to enhance overall organizational efficiency.