As a Manager your responsibilities will include:

• Conduct a thorough assessment of the company’s total global spend on professional and business services as well as real estate
• Assess the global market for relevant goods and services including trends, forecasts, risks, geopolitical effects, and supplier profiling
• Participate in the definition of a fully comprehensive category strategy for professional and business services as well as real estate
• Translate global procurement strategy into detailed category plans with a set of measurable global, regional, and local targets
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction and avoidance that are attributable to the P&L and able to be audited by a Finance stakeholder
• Execute on target opportunities by conducting strategic sourcing projects and supplier selection related activities using best practices and e-Sourcing tools
• As appropriate, lead the negotiation and development of key contracts through the effective partnering with the supplier, Legal, and the business stakeholder
• Manage designated key strategic supplier relationships to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and service.  Conduct timely reviews with suppliers to measure performance against contractual standards and performance expectations
• Develop risk management strategies relating to potential supply disruptions including alternative sourcing options and product/service availability
• Help drive a supplier enablement strategy to maximize spend transacted through SAP Ariba Buying and Supply-Chain Collaboration
• Support the delivery of 100% digital cataloging of key procurement contracts
• Identify procurement processes and policies for alignment at the country, region, and global levels
• Provide business SME for future digital procurement platform deployments

The Manager position is well-suited for you if you:

• Have experience in procurement within professional and business services as well as real estate
• Self-directed with an ability to work remotely from direct manager
• Are organized with strong attention to detail
• Seek to deliver a laser-focus on your internal customers
• Possess a desire to manage multiple priorities and achieve results
• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills, build consensus, and foster positive relationships with team members and suppliers
• Enjoy a performance culture that values work intensity
• Possess an owner’s mindset and enjoy challenging the status quo

Qualified candidates will have:

• A bachelor’s degree in business, supply management, engineering, life science, or other related discipline and 5-7 years of procurement/purchasing experience
• Technical, plant operation, and/or engineering experienced preferred
• Knowledge and understanding of purchasing practices, policies, and procedures; in-depth experience in using SAP Ariba as a value creating tool, SAP Fieldglass, and PowerSteering
• Experience in international procurement / sourcing activities with a record of leading change and cost reduction in cross-cultural environments
• Experience in successfully managing multiple projects simultaneously with results consistent with management’s expectations
• A demonstrated history of successfully collaborating with multiple internal stakeholders
• A passion for managing and developing employees in alignment with company values
• An ability to multi-task
• Strong oral and written communication skills, be highly organized, and have excellent problem solving/decision making abilities
• Excellent analytical and financial acumen including cost modeling, budgeting, and forecasting
• Excellent skills within the Microsoft Office suite