Global Strategic Sourcing Manager - Oakland, United States - Abacus

    Abacus
    Abacus Oakland, United States

    1 month ago

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    Department: Guidance - Procurement : 30404
    Guidance Job Category: Finance & Accounting Job Code: Job Title: Global Strategic Sourcing Manager Keywords: Number of Positions: 1 Remaining Positions: 1 Duties:

    • Establish partnerships with key stakeholders aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements.
    • Review incoming and ongoing vendor engagement and contract requests.
    • Support Business Stakeholders around the Globe through the source-to-pay processes, procedures, and policies.
    • Collaborate cross functionally with Legal, InfoSec, Privacy, Finance, IT, Compliance, etc. to help ensure new and existing vendors adhere to relevant requirements in these areas
    • Collaborate to conduct RFx, lead and/or actively support contract negotiation with suppliers and agencies; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements.
    • Support and influence negotiations with a focus on cost-reductions, spend-optimization, risk mitigation, and process compliance.
    • Ensure alignment with appropriate procurement, sourcing, and/or category strategy and corporate policies through continuous dialogue with category, procurement, and business stakeholder leads.
    • Will be supporting business partners around the globe including the United States, Canada, Europe/UK, and Australia.
    • 100% Remote
    • 9 AM - 5 PM local time zone
    Skills:
    • Superior relationship-building, relationship management, and interpersonal communication and influencing skills.
    • Communicates effectively, listens carefully, and seeks and values different perspectives of others.
    Top Skills
    • Minimum 5 years of Procurement/Strategic Sourcing experience.
    • Experience in-depth with Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay Practices.
    • Negotiations, Contract Management, Organization
    Education:
    Bachelor's Degree
    ttachments: JD - Global Indirect Strategic Sourcing Location Client Location Country: United States State/Province: Californi City: Oakland ddress: 1955 Broadway, 10095 POSTAL CODE: 94612 Work Location Same as Client Location Other Client Location Work Completed Offsite Schedule Start Date: 09/18/2023 Hours Per Week: 40.00 Est. End Date: 03/18/2024 Hours Per Day: 8.00 Schedule Notes: Days Per Week: 5.00
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    Global Indirect Strategic Sourcing Manager

    Company Description
    Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams - People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more - provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.
    Job Description
    Block has an exciting career opportunity for a Global Indirect Strategic Sourcing Manager based in the United States (Remote). This is a chance for a highly motivated individual with professional experience in procurement/strategic sourcing and capable of both hands-on individual contribution and thought leadership. The role will focus on driving adoption and efficient use of the source-to-pay process through system optimization and proactive partner outreach along with sourcing management, contract management, and negotiation support where applicable.
    The role will use your procurement and sourcing and industry aptitude, internal stakeholder customer service and data analysis skills to support global teams through the source-to-pay process, driving RFP's, and supporting contract negotiations to optimize our spend. The position will report to the Sourcing Lead in Procurement. We ask that you have a continuous improvement philosophy, strong relationship building and management skills, and ability to share thoughtful education with key stakeholders while maintaining receptiveness with key collaborators on best practices and market trends.

    You Will:
    • Have Category Experience in: Professional Services, Consulting Services, Facilities, Workplace, Construction, Finance, Accounting, HR, People
    • Establish partnerships with key stakeholders aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements.
    • Review incoming and ongoing vendor engagement and contract requests.
    • Support Business Stakeholders around the Globe through the source-to-pay processes, procedures, and policies.
    • Collaborate cross functionally with Legal, InfoSec, Privacy, Finance, IT, Compliance, etc. to help ensure new and existing vendors adhere to relevant requirements in these areas
    • Collaborate to conduct RFx, lead and/or actively support contract negotiation with suppliers and agencies; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements.
    • Support and influence negotiations with a focus on cost-reductions, spend-optimization, risk mitigation, and process compliance.
    • Ensure alignment with appropriate procurement, sourcing, and/or category strategy and corporate policies through continuous dialogue with category, procurement, and business stakeholder leads.
    • Will be supporting business partners around the globe including the United States, Canada, Europe/UK, and Australia.
    Qualifications
    You have:
    • Minimum 5 years of Procurement/Strategic Sourcing experience.
    • Bachelor's degree.
    • Experience depth with Source-to-Contract and Procure-to-Pay Practices.
    • Superior relationship building, relationship management, and interpersonal communication and influencing skills.
    • Communicates effectively, listens carefully, and seeks and values different perspectives of others.
    • Capable of prioritizing and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
    • Experience using Procurement and Sourcing Tools such as SCOUT, COUPA, Oracle, etc.