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    Sourcing Manager IV - Cupertino, United States - Gateway Recruiting

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    Summary:
    The Sourcing Manager will assist with strategic planning, long term deal structuring and negotiations. This position requires the ability to work with procurement, engineering, finance, and legal teams and third parties such as foundries and suppliers. The position requires strong quantitative and analytical skills, critical thinking, and ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously. This role is for procurement of data services. It means collection of data for Maps and annotation of data such as images, videos, audio, and translation of content into several language pairs. Suppliers quote on labor rate and expected labor effort per task. The Sourcing Manager is positioned at the interface between the company's product teams and the industries that supply core technologies. We are responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies as well as recommending product innovations based on improving technology.

    Key Responsibilities:
    The role is dynamic and often must wear multiple hats: focusing on big picture roadmap one moment and the minute details the next. Here are some highlights of the role:

    • Manage procurement of data services.
    • Procure collection of data for Maps and annotation of data such as images, videos, audio, and translation of content into several language pairs.
    • Develop a nuanced understanding of thecommodity landscape in order to forecast industry trends and gauge emerging competitive forces.
    • Identify changes in buyer and supplier power and use industry dynamics to the company's advantage.
    • Perform supplier financial research, spend analysis and ad-hoc financial analysis for strategic procurement deals.
    • Effectively work with suppliers to negotiate optimal terms for sourcing.
    • Understand the trade-offs between cost, volume, and quality in order to strike agreements that meet the company's performance criteria and secure long-term supply continuity.
    • Collaborate across the organization to ensure business objectives are met.
    • Includes the ability to rapidly synthesize and communicate findings to senior leaders and to actively identify potential supply issues that can affect product strategy.
    • Optimize supply chain performance through cost and capacity scenario analysis, and benchmarking.
    • Develop an in-depth understanding of value-added manufacturing processes and costs and market intelligence and apply this knowledge to influence the company's future product roadmap and sourcing decisions.
    • Provide overall program management support and contribute to ongoing development of processes, templates, escalation procedures, and reporting.

    Qualifications:

    • BA/BS degree plus 5+ years of work experience, Master's degree or MBA preferred
    • Tenacity, passion and demonstrated skill in negotiations.
    • Strong analytical and critical thinking skills
    • Superb communication and interpersonal skills
    • Can build, grow, and develop key cross-functional relationships to be able to influence and drive projects.
    • Experience in supplier management and operations and ability to solve complex supply chain issues a plus.
    • End-to-end ownership of contract negotiations for both commercial and legal aspects a plus.
    • Direct experience in long-term capacity planning a plus
    • Interest in technology
    • Ability to make quick decisions and solve complex problems with 80% information.
    • Willingness to travel internationally up to 30%.
    • Can operate independently.

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