Director, Sourcing Execution
RBC
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Toronto • Minnesota, North Carolina • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Responsible for the development of sourcing and savings/cost avoidance strategies
- Ensures a sustainable supply chain to support RBC businesses
- Optimizing total value generated from RBC’s supplier base
- Executes and manages procurement needs by building a vision and road map
- Diagnoses client requirements and supplier capabilities
- Leads a team of sourcing practitioners in negotiating non-complex and complex deals
- Strengthens relationships with business unit clients and suppliers
- Ensures solutions are developed and delivered on time against operational and financial business targets
- Develops guidelines to support management of stakeholder relationships
- Establishes strategic direction for the sourcing and procurement organization
- Liaises with the business to secure buy into the strategy
- Makes decisions on controversial or sensitive procurement evaluation activities and processes
- Leverages contract preparation and negotiation skills to lead deal negotiations
Requirements
- 10+ years’ experience in global procurement, sourcing and relationship management
- Experience in leading and supporting a team of sourcing practitioners including managing stakeholder interactions/relationships
- Leadership and management skills in implementing Strategic Sourcing plans or initiatives on an enterprise level
- Strong Business and Financial Acumen
- Leading complex deals with a total contract value of $10 Million or more
- Strong grasp of procurement law and/or regulations
- Nice-to-have: Experience working with Contract and Procurement software such as Coupa and iValua
- Procurement experience specific to IT segment, Professional Services, and Software related products
- Building deal summaries and presentations to review with senior and executive level leaders
- People management skills specific to providing guidance and coaching to help build team capabilities
Benefits
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
global procurementsourcingrelationship managementstrategic sourcingcontract negotiationprocurement lawfinancial acumendeal summariespresentations
Soft skills
leadershipmanagementstakeholder managementpeople managementguidancecoachingrelationship building